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Linda Brown: Concept Based Clinical Assignments for Deeper Learning

  Developing astute clinical judgments about complex clinical concepts and phenomena require deeper learning in clinical assignments that focus on comparing and contrasting patients who demonstrate the clinical phenomena of concern. In this month’s video, Linda Brown, R.N., M.S., demonstrates how she develops and works with assigning students in-depth study of key concepts during their …

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I don’t use PowerPoint!

Sample EducatingNurses.com by watching acclaimed teacher, Dr. Linda Felver teach Pathophysiology in a lively and spontaneous setting that is truly memorable to her students. Take 8 minutes and get inspired. EducatingNurses.com is an award-winning faculty development website. This powerful faculty resource introduces the latest learning science and includes a subscription for your entire staff and an of your …

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Concept Based Clinical Assignments for Deeper Learning

  Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. FAAN …in the current nursing education climate, faculty need to use a wider repertoire of clinical models and strategies to foster the depth of student learning and their development of clinical judgment. Kathie Lasater, EdD, RN, ANEF; Ann Nielsen, MN, RN Jo. of Nursing Education, 8,2009 Vol. 48, p. 446. …

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Focusing on Student Learning with a Flipped Classroom

  Rhonda Vander Sluis, who was nursing educator at Oregon Health Sciences University, and Dr. Scott Christian, who also was at OHSU, demonstrate active Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in these two videos. Rhonda Vander Sluis uses unfolding clinical case studies to *flip* her classroom. Students come to class to present their part of an …

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Focusing on Student Learning: Seeking High Reliability in Nursing Education

  By Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., copyright 2016 The scholarship of teaching and learning encompasses a broad set of practices that engage teachers in looking closely and critically at student learning in order to improve their own courses and programs, and to share insights with other educators who can evaluate and build on their efforts. …

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Learning From First Person Experience Near Narratives

Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. FAAN Copyright 2016 During the past 30 years, more ethicists have paid attention to the role of narratives in presenting exemplary practice. More attention in learning and understanding moral life and ethical comportment is being paid to exemplary people and events that reveal and demonstrate excellent ethical comportment. Narratives can reveal …

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Woman and Man role play as a mother and father in a poverty simulation
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Cultural Humility: Gaining First-Person Experience and Empathy for the Health and Life Impact of Living in Poverty

  Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN Copyright January, 2016 We choose the term “cultural humility” rather than the more ambitious, and misleading term, “cultural competency” in the title, because even within one’s own dominant culture, much can be learned and many blind spots exist between local cultures, between social classes, and between disparate social contexts. …

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Poverty Simulation Part 1: Setting up and Planning

  Part I: Setting up and Planning The Missouri Action Poverty Simulation    Part One gives the overview and history of learning goals and history of this simulation, and how three nursing schools in Oregon Nursing Education collaborate to create this community health and cross-cultural experiential learning about living in poverty.   Student roles in the …

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