Dr. Glenise McKenzie talks about using the Community of Inquiry model in designing online courses. She discusses some of the advantages of online learning. Also: understanding the context of the online student’s own community and asking the right questions in your online courses.
Dr. Gubrud-Howe talks about some best practices she’s discerned in online and screen-based simulation learning. For example, faculty needs to make screen-based simulation connect with actual clinical practice cases to help the student ask the “what if” questions and how they will use what they’re learning in their own future practice.
Dr. Paula Gubrud-Howe discusses her experience with merging online courses with screen-based simulation for clinical education. How to effectively use instructional designers to avoid issues with cognitive overload for both students and instructors. She describes using the Community of Learning approach in online course design.
Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN EducatingNurses.com, copyright May 10, 2020 The 200th birthday of Florence Nightingale finds nursing under the COVID-19 spotlight. While it will take years to capture and absorb what this time has meant, I encourage nurses on the front line to tell their stories; clarify and record their experiences. Rather than try to protect …
UPDATE 12/28/20: Unfortunately, our national numbers haven’t improved since April 2020, when we first posted this article. Our hospitals in many cities are in a crisis. The hard questions posed in this newsletter are still asked each day and will continue through the winter. ?RATIONING CARE has begun in Southern California w/ 0% ICU beds in many …
Our overwhelmed, or soon to be overwhelmed hospitals, face rationing precious life-saving equipment, such as ventilators. Our national lack of preparedness for a global pandemic will, in the near future, force local physicians and nurses to ration ventilators and oxygen delivery equipment, for patients and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for caregivers. How do health care providers …
Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN March 26, 2020 Amid this COVID-19 Pandemic, graduating the current senior nursing students and preparing all to graduate on time is critical to meeting health care needs with our current nursing shortage. We pause to reflect on how nurse educators can be innovative when the stakes are so high. I …
Nurses are stepping up to the plate in this COVID-19 Crisis. We’re reading and hearing about hand-made face masks, nurses and doctors who are marooned by lack of COVID-19 tests, and even isolation strategies needed within their own families! We have a venerable tradition of service, and it is wonderful to belong to such a …
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Delayed availability of 2020 graduates would add to the crisis in our health care system that is struggling to care for patients in the COVID-19 pandemic. Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. FAAN Copyright March 19, 2020 Most nursing schools are currently closed and are required to teach only online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, …
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