Woman and Man role play as a mother and father in a poverty simulation
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The Role of a Faculty Community in Designing a Transformative Curriculum

There are many pejorative terms to describe the conflicts, arguments and difficulties getting faculty “on the same page” or “going in the same direction.”  Many call developing orchestrated activity on the part of diverse, creative, autonomy oriented, critical thinking faculty members like “herding cats.”  But that is pejorative, only if you are not a cat …

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Designing a Transformative Curriculum in Nursing Education

by: Patricia Benner Many schools of nursing are embarked upon transforming their nursing curriculum in response to the Carnegie National Study of Nursing Education, the IOM/Robert Woods Johnson Futures Report, the Lancet Report, The Essentials of Baccalaureate Nursing Education, and the QSEN Report on Quality and Safety Education for Nurses. These external demands are met …

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Diane Pestolesi teaches a class
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Teaching Our Students to Use Multiple Frames of Reference for Clinical Situations

Why authentic, unfolding case studies are essential in the education of a nurse -Patricia Benner (copyright, 2011) Educational research supports the effectiveness of teaching students multiple ways of thinking, including clinical reasoning, critical thinking, and creative thinking. Clinical Reasoning is a form of practical reasoning, i.e., reasoning across time about the particular through changes in …

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Designing Patient Focused Simulations

Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN Learning a practice discipline is ideal for both simulation and direct experiential learning from practice.  But the design of the simulations must be practice-domain specific and pedagogically sound for teaching good practice.  Teaching nursing practice requires: -Experiential learning in high stakes environments -Expertise Depends on Relational Skills and Clinical Imagination …

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Taking Up the Practice: Nursing Education in Norway

Dialogue with Dr. Kristin Heggen, Professor of Nursing and Deputy Dean of Studies, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo and Consultant on the Norwegian Translation of Educating Nurses, A Call for Radical Transformation. This full article is only available to our members but please enjoy our preview below. Patricia Benner: We have had some of …

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Moving to patient-focused, practice-focused teaching

  I hope that members will seriously consider the three positions for teachers and students in their stances: 1. Student Focused: A student centered stance, which focuses primarily, on the students’ preferences, choices, and concerns. 2. Teacher Focused: A teacher performance centered stance where the class, climate, culture and performance is focused on the teacher’s actions …

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