Charlene Ramirez

VIDEO: Slipping into the Role of the Patient

Patricia Benner, MSN, R.N. Ph.D., FAAN. Coaching students via effective role-playing in Simulation Charlene Ramirez, MSN RN Clinical Instructor, MSU © Mark and Robyn Jones College of Nursing at Montana State University, Bozeman. 

Amber Pisk

VIDEO: Confidence in Performance

Patricia Benner, MSN, R.N. Ph.D., FAAN. How MSU’s Simulation innovation has improved the overall performance  of MSU graduates Amber Pisk RN MSN Director Professional Practice and Education St. Vincent Regional Hospital Billings MT © Mark and Robyn Jones College of Nursing at Montana State University, Bozeman. 

Carrie Miller

VIDEO: Fostering the Deep Respect for Continuous Learning

Patricia Benner, MSN, R.N. Ph.D., FAAN. Dr. Miller eloquently discusses how the MSU staff develops confidence, competence and caring in their students Carrie Miller, PhD, RN, CNE Associate Professor MSU Mark & Robyn Jones College of Nursing © Mark and Robyn Jones College of Nursing at Montana State University, Bozeman. 

Nursing Simulation in Billings

Simulation for Formative Clinical Learning—3 Simulation Innovations Make Students More Practice-Ready at The Mark and Robyn Jones College of Nursing, Montana State University

Patricia Benner, MSN, R.N. Ph.D., FAAN. John Benner, Ph.C., University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Dr. Benner and the Educating Nurses Team spent a week touring the Montana State University Mark and Robyn Jones College of Nursing, and were able to observe and record their revolutionary use of simulation across all 5 campuses. This article highlights …

Facilitating Students’ Learning from Practice: The Centrality of Experiential Learning in Practice Disciplines

Educators in all practice disciplines have erred on the side of thinking that all knowledge is just a matter of “applying” what is conceptually and technically already known, a rational-calculation approach Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. FAAN John Benner, Doctoral Candidate at University of Washington, Seattle, WA Experiential learning directly from practice is central to all …

Dr. Benner on Nursing Process & Clinical Reasoning Process

VIDEO: Teaching Clinical Reasoning – Helping Students Become More Test and Practice-Ready

  Patricia Benner on the nature of clinical reasoning, and the importance focusing on key aspects of clinical reasoning in practice: situational awareness, rapid clinical reasoning, and thinking-in-action. A better understanding and teaching of clinical reasoning will make students more test-ready and more practice-ready. This is especially relevant to help new graduates for the upcoming …

Creating Safe Learning Environments that Encourage Growth and Active learning.

Patricia Benner, R.N. Ph.D., FAAN, John Benner, Doctoral Candidate New graduate nurses face heavy patient loads, daily life-or-death decisions, nursing work groups with high-turnover rates, and inexperienced co-workers, all made more difficult by the new levels of hospital care demands created by the COVID-19 epidemic. Evidence grows that new graduates are not prepared to meet …

Dr. Benner & Dr. Chan on Rapid clinical reasoning in a clinical crisis

A Rich First-Person Narrative Account of Rapid Clinical Reasoning, Situational Awareness and Situated Thinking in action.

  Dr. Garrett Chan, RN, PhD, FAAN,  provides a clinical example from his own practice as an expert Emergency Department Nurse. Please reflect on the nature of his clinical reasoning, his situational awareness, and his rapid mobilization of the surgical team, as well as how he considered the significance of informing the wife of how …