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Learning from Experience—Mistakes and Successes in Caring for COVID-19 Patients

Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN EducatingNurses.com  June 3, 2021 The COVID-19 Pandemic confronted healthcare workers at all levels with a new disease fraught with uncertainty, unknown pathology, uncharted trajectories with high acuity, and mortality rates, especially in older age groups. Common clinical trends, signs and symptoms, sequelae, best treatments, prevention, and intervention strategies, and more, …

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Situated Coaching with Preceptor Alyssa Boldt

  This short video illustrates “situated coaching” for a new graduate nurse while providing direct, safe participation to create maximum clinical learning. By situated coaching, we mean teaching and experiential learning in actual clinical situations. The new graduate is coached to understand clinical implications as the situation unfolds. Learning directly from whole clinical situations has high impact …

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The Art of Asking Open-Ended Questions, Allowing ‘Think Time’ & Providing Thoughtful Responses with Lisa Day

  Lisa Day Demonstrates how she prompts students’ clinical thinking. She uses silence to allow students to think and then gives thoughtful responses to their answers.  Questioning is at the heart of creating clinical imagination and developing the student’s understanding of particular clinical situations.  Open-ended questions, with no one right or wrong answer, reveal the …

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Precepting for Autonomy, Nurse Patient Relationships, Clinical Imagination, Time Management, Teamwork and Curiosity

  Copyright May 8, 2019 Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN We continue to examine the teaching and learning required by all new graduate nurses; how preceptors transmit local knowledge, engage in situated coaching, and role model nurse-patient caring relationships that are respectful, discerning, and attuned. Here we focus on preceptor Marye Fuqua, who is a …

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Coaching for Autonomy, and Authenticity with Marye Fuqua pt 1

  Marye Fuqua provides some valuable insight into what makes an effective preceptor of new graduates. Since she is relatively new to nursing herself, she has a clear memory of the learning challenges of transitioning school to work, and what coaching practices did and did not work for her when she was a  preceptee. She fosters autonomy …

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Learning Time Management and Organizational Skills with Marye Fuqua pt 2

  Marye Fuqua provides some valuable insight into what makes an effective preceptor of new graduates. Since she is relatively new to nursing herself, she has a clear memory of the learning challenges of transitioning school to work, and what coaching practices did and did not work for her when she was a  preceptee. She fosters autonomy …

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Vickie Sattler: Two Key Roles for Preceptors pt 1

  A strong preceptor program can dramatically improve a hospital’s retention rate of new nurses. However, the of the emergency department preceptor faces unique challenges as they work quickly in situations that may fall outside the orientee’s experience and clinical knowledge. Vickie Sattler of Spokane, WA, meets the challenge with excellent situated coaching and local …

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