Carol Thorn: Ice Sculpting
Carol Thorn uses ice sculpting as a metaphor, thinking about what the ice and experience of carving it bring to the sculpture as well as what she can offer as a teacher.
Developing Forethought and Clinical Imagination with Carol Thorn
Carol Thorn has her students create a list of potential clinical problems from a patient assigned to one of her clinical students. The students are given the patient’s age and other demographics along with her current medical conditions, social circumstances and admitting diagnoses. The students are challenged to come up with potential problems that …
The Primacy of Caring and Learning from Patients’ Responses to Care
Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph. D., copyright December, 2015 Interviewing and presenting the work of Marcus Engel in November has made me reflect more on the centrality of care and the work of preserving personhood, and helping the patient stay connected to his or her helplines. First, some reflections on The Primacy of Caring (Benner & …
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Developing Clinical Imagination for Potential Patient Concerns and Problems – Clinical Forethought Part 1
Assessing, Setting, Shifting and Communicating Patient Care Priorities Part 2
A Passion for Clinical Teaching and Clinical Practice
Students’ Insights on Clinical Learning
A Guide for Clinical Teachers: Deeper Learning in Clinical Learning Experience – ARTICLE
By Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. , Copyright 2015 Increasingly, clinical teaching is done by Clinical Adjunct Faculty, who may or may not have any formal education in teaching. Clinical Adjuncts may not have had much guidance about what the aims of particular clinical courses are or which students need situated coaching to address …
Teaching and Learning Situated Skills of Involvement with Patients and Families
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, families, and the actual demands, resources and challenges of particular situations did not …
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Teaching for a Sense of Salience and Situated Coaching