Learning Leadership in an Inner City, Homeless Health Care Center – ARTICLE

Students leave this setting, understanding the difference between managerialism and leadership, and the importance of being an effective change agent as a nurse leader Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN, Copyright 2015 This month we present three new community health population-based videos and the excellent teaching of Dr. Ann Beckett, Professor at the Oregon Health Sciences School …

The Master Teacher Sparks Curiosity and Facilitates Transformative Learning – ARTICLE

By Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. FAAN April  28, 2015, copyright 2015 Our EducatingNurses.com Team and I are reflecting on the many provocative and engaging conversations at the ATI Summit in San Diego April 19-22nd, 2015. Our Co-Producer, June Hagman, was asked, “What does being a ‘Master Teacher’ mean? Master Teacher, Dr. Hubert L. Dreyfus describes master …

Interpretive Phenomenology in Health Care Research: Studying Social Practice, Lifeworlds, and Embodiment

Interpretative phenomenological analysis aims to offer insights into how a person within a given context makes sense of a phenomenon. Usually, these phenomena relate to experiences of some personal significance, such as a major life event (acute or chronic illness, death of a loved one, change in economic status, etc.) or the development of an …

The Crisis of Care: Affirming and Restoring Caring Practices in the Helping Professions

By combining stories of care, the reflections of caregiving practitioners, and interpretations of caregiving within a larger social and theoretical framework, this collection identifies the values and skills involved in quality caregiving at the individual level. This collection also affirms their importance for reshaping our public caregiving institutions. Contributors from the fields of medicine, nursing, …

Caregiving: Readings in Knowledge, Practice, Ethics, and Politics

The need for caregiving is enormous. Thanks to extraordinary advances in medical technology, Americans are surviving illnesses and injuries that would have killed them a generation ago, and more of us are living into our eighties and nineties than ever before. Yet most people over sixty-five live with the burden of one or more chronic …

The Primacy of Caring: Stress and Coping in Health and Illness

First-person accounts from practicing nurses provide students with expert role models in this authoritative yet personal text that focuses on patients’ responses to stress. The breadth and value of the nursing experience is reinforced as nurses share how their caring made a critical difference for patients and their families. This text, winner of two American …