From Novice to Competence: Use of Rules and Maxims, a Conversation with Hubert L. Dreyfus and Stuart E. Dreyfus This module updates the research and thinking on the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition by the originators themselves. This module can help the teacher recognize the challenges and strategies of working with Novice, Advanced Beginner, …
This coherent presentation of clinical judgment, caring practices, and collaborative practice provides ideas and images that readers can draw upon in their interactions with others and in their interpretation of what nurses do. It includes many clear, colorful examples and describes the five stages of skill acquisition, the nature of clinical judgement and experiential learning …
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Since the last national nursing education study 40 years ago, profound changes in science, technology, patient activism, the market-driven health care environment, and the nature of nursing practice have all radically transformed nursing education. Educating Nurses, part of the Preparation for the Professions series from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, explores key issues …
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Teaching for a Sense of Salience and Situated Coaching This module goes more in depth about the tacit, experientially-gained knowledge in understanding whole clinical situations. What distinguishes a professional nurse and one who has only read about nursing are the deep background understanding and the ability to perceive the particular challenges in actual clinical …
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Integrating Classroom and Clinical Teaching by Using Unfolding Case Studies Unfolding case studies: situate the student’s thinking and action in particular, actual clinical situations help the student engage in situated thinking and action help the teacher engage in situated coaching
Teaching for Ethical Comportment, Moral Imagination and Formation This lesson focuses on the Third Apprenticeship – demonstrating how good clinical practice must have the student take an active role in their own formation. The importance of embodied, skilled, know-how learned in situated practices is emphasized. Experiential learning and actually using knowledge in a particular situation is …
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