Patricia Benner, copyright 2013 This newsletter is a response to a reply to our April Newsletter entitled, “Reconceptualizing the Use of Concepts in Curriculum Design.” We had a number of replies to the April newsletter. I thought it would be helpful to extend the con …
EducatingNurses.com: Patricia Benner March, 26, 2013, copyright Last September’s Educating Nurses Newsletter, (2012) entitled Situating Concepts and Competencies in Nursing Education, Research, and Practice, generated a lot of questions about re-thinking and updating …
Copyright Patricia Benner Newsletter for February 2013 Teaching for a Professional Practice has many additional demands than an introductory survey course. In a professional practice we expect students to develop deep learning that includes the three professional apprenti …
Copyright Patricia Benner January 10, 2013 The consensus that radical changes are needed in nursing education is now echoed for a much younger set of students. This spotlights the value of integrating knowledge acquisition and knowledge use, and the need for nursing educators …
copyright Patricia Benner 2012 We are excited to introduce our new videos for 2013 starting this week. We are more than doubling the content and think that faculty and graduate students will find the new videos extremely useful for faculty development and teacher training. Th …
Concepts and competencies are useful ways to organize a curriculum. They identify knowledge and skills that can be used in multiple settings and situations. But they also can unwittingly limit thinking and achievement to an unintended narrow rational-technicality. By narr …
As you put the final touches on your syllabi for the Fall Term, review your approach to the course with an eye to student engagement in learning. Instead of the limited behavioral objectives, you might add concrete practice-centered goals for the course. Do not be afraid of …
By: Patricia Benner We are learning more and more about the positive outcomes of engagement and the deleterious effects of disengagement (Rubin, 2009). In studies of skill acquisition and clinical reasoning we found that nurses who had problems with engaging with patients, fa …
Lectures should never be considered as a single intent, single style pedagogical strategy. By Patricia Benner, Copyright 2012 In this May Newsletter, we review some of the major legitimate pedagogical uses of lecture, in the classroom, seminar, skills l …
Urgently Needed, a Radical Transformation of Professional Collaboration and Teamwork by Patricia Benner, copyright 2012 I am writing this month’s newsletter with vivid interprofessional educational innovations fresh in mind from the Josiah Macy Foundation Invitational Confe …
