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A Guide for Clinical Teachers: Deeper Learning in Clinical Learning Experience – ARTICLE

    By Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. , Copyright 2015 Increasingly, clinical teaching is done by Clinical Adjunct Faculty, who may or may not have any formal education in teaching. Clinical Adjuncts may not have had much guidance about what the aims of particular clinical courses are or which students need situated coaching to address …

Learning Activities for Teachers and Nursing Students around Situating Clinical Knowledge Use in the Teaching of Science

By Patricia Benner, copyright 2015 Download PDF   1.     University of Pennsylvania has implemented several strategies for upgrading the teaching of science so that it is more focused on the science most needed in today’s highly technical medical and nursing practice.  For example, their Anatomy and Physiology class has now integrated Health Assessment with a …

Learning Activity: Consciousness Raising on Experiential Learning

What are the Teaching Learning Implications for the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition? Learning Activity for Teachers and Nursing Students:  Consciousness Raising on Experiential Learning By Patricia Benner copyright 2015 Download PDF Describe a situation where you gained new understanding or perspectives on caring for a particular patient? What turned your thinking around in the …

Learning Activities for Teachers for Planning and Engaging in Curriculum Re-design

Patricia Benner, copyright 2015 Download PDF 1.     Review Dr. Afaf Meleis’ advice for orchestrating curriculum change from the Dean’s perspective. a.     What are the key recommendations for managing and resources and supporting the work of the faculty in redesigning the curriculum? b.     What strategies did faculty use for ensuring that all faculty contributed to the …

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Glossary

Glossary[1] Download PDF Agency: one’s sense of and ability to act so as to influence the situation based on understanding what is needed and one’s capacity to act.  This includes, but is not limited to, decision making. For example, each nurse participates in learning skills, and relational abilities in order to engage in ethical comportment …

Learning Activities for Teachers and Nursing Students Working with Discussion Triggers

By Patricia Benner, copyright 2015 Download PDF 1.     Find a film excerpt, a documentary excerpt, patient experience excerpt, news stories, or op-ed pieces that would work for a particular classroom discussion.   2.     Compile a list of media sources for discussion triggers.  Note: you may choose to assign a longer film, or documentary and have …

Integrating Knowing-that and Knowing-how

By Patricia Benner, copyright 2015 Download PDF Learning Activities for Teachers and Nursing Students Related to Bringing the Clinical into Classroom Learning:   1.     Compose an unfolding case as recommended by Lisa Day in her interview on using unfolding classes.  For example, plan the arc of the story. Make sure patient responses actually occurred, and …

Learning Activities for Entering the Practice of Nursing Education

by Patricia Benner, copyright 2015 Download PDF   A Practice of Teaching Nursing that Brings Clinical Classroom Together. Unfolding Cases for Active Learning. For new teachers and those interested in developing more interactive classes. ________________________________________________________________________ Maxims for Excellence in Teaching Focus on learning and learning outcomes. Create curiosity, openness and passion for knowledge use in …