Simulation for Formative Clinical Learning—Comprehensive Sim Labs 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. NOTE: Dr. Shannon generously included the course design guidelines at the conclusion of this article.   Dean Sarah Shannon and faculty colleagues have re-imagined how Simulation courses for Clinical Learning can integrate learning goals for all courses.   These clinical learning Sim labs focus on formative learning and integrate …

Experiential Learning From Practice: Using Situated Coaching and Clinical Narratives

Patricia Benner, MSN, R.N. Ph.D., FAAN. John Benner, Ph.D.C., University of Washington One of the ‘taken for granted’, hidden assumptions about teaching and learning in most of academia, including nursing education, is guided by a disproven Cartesian view of how the mind works, based upon Descartes (1644; 1993; Dreyfus and Taylor, 2015; Taylor, 2016; Robbins …

VIDEO: Experiential Learning: Learning Directly from Practice in Nursing Education

Patricia Benner, MSN, R.N. Ph.D., FAAN. One of the ‘taken for granted’, hidden assumptions about teaching and learning in most of academia, including nursing education, is guided by a disproven Cartesian view of how the mind works, based upon Descartes (1644; 1993; Dreyfus and Taylor, 2015; Taylor, 2016; Damasio, 2005). This mistaken assumption is that …