Student interacts with actor in simulation

Using Live-Actor Simulations to Teach Novice Students

    Copyright, Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. FAAN December 4, 2014 Clinical nursing education demands different pedagogical strategies for the novice (first year of academic clinical education) than the senior student, who has a much better sense of what is most and least important (salience) and much better ability to recognize the nature of the …

medical staff helping senior patient

The Hidden Curriculum in Health Professional Education

If slides aren’t loading refresh page. This is an exciting new book on the hidden curriculum in professional education that you won’t want to miss.  I am particularly proud of the contribution by Lisa Day and myself on The Hidden Curriculum in Nursing Education.  View HC Book Flier #1.pdf and other presentations by dhagman.

Students interact with actor in a simulation

Simulation Pre-Briefing and Debriefing: Creating Safe Disclosive Spaces for High Impact Learning

  Stephanie Sideras, R.N., Ph.D., Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. Copyright Patricia Benner, Stephanie Sideras 2014 Clinical nursing faculty experienced in simulation pedagogy seek the deep learning that is possible for students during an intensely realistic situated learning activity.  The ability to structure, control and repeat a specific learning activity for the benefit of novice students …

Students speak to an actor as a sullen teen

Deep Learning While Teaching the Discipline’s Most Important Concepts

    Patricia Benner, copyright September 2014 This month we present Dr. Glenise McKenzie’s flipped classroom video, which focuses on the concept of age-appropriate therapeutic communication. Dr. McKenzie demonstrates how she approaches The Oregon Consortium of Nursing Education (OCNE) concept-based curriculum where the teaching of concepts are contextualized in the four foci of care: Recovery from …

Dr. Benner and a Nurse speak with students behind a desk

Thriving During Your Dissertation Research — The Beginning of the Rest of Your Life

Patricia Benner, copyright 2014 Many faculty are teaching in the midst of completing doctoral studies, and summer is a time when focus on the doctoral studies is planned. Here are some tips I have learned over the last 30 years working with wonderful doctoral students. I wish I could write that sure-to-be bestseller, “How to …