We are featuring video selections on EducatingNurses.com by leaders who are noted nurse educators that are drawn from their presentations on the three professional apprenticeships. We begin with Dr. Sarah Shannon, on the subject of ethics in nursing education. She talks about the difference between professional ethics and bioethics, engaging students, and helping them “find …
Patricia Benner, R N. Ph.D., FAAN copyright July 2021, EducatingNurses.com “I’m guessing that many of you teach ethics and it’s either your least favorite or most favorite course…I’m here to talk with you about how to make it your most favorite course.” Sarah Shannon We are featuring video selections on EducatingNurses.com by leaders who are …
“We will be here with her. We will hold her hands for you guys. Okay? ….I don’t want someone to die alone.” Sara Reynolds, ICU Nurse, Phoenix, Arizona Death, Through a Nurse’s Eyes, Produced by Alexander Stockton and Lucy King, February 24, 2021, New York Times Copyright 2021 by Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. FAAN The …
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Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN EducatingNurses.com Copyright February, 2020 With the next two EducatingNurses.com articles in February and March, we hope to re-invigorate the dialogue about the art and science of nursing with contributions by two outstanding Norwegian scholars, Dr. Kari Martinsen and Dr. Eva Gjengedal. Nursing as art and science might have once been …
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.
Diane Pestolesi’s metaphor is coaching. This opens up possibilities for situated teaching and learning in actual clinical practice. She asks questions, assesses students’ approaches and practical understandings, and offers situated coaching.
Clinical ethics teacher, Sarah Shannon, uses a boat keel as her metaphor. Forming a keel is integral to the formation of a student’s ethical comportment in practice. It keeps them from capriciously changing, veering off into conflicting or multiple directions at once. She teaches by examples, active dialogue, and asking questions, so that students learn to navigate …
Lisa Day’s metaphor of bird watching challenges her to be attentive, engaged and curious. She is comfortable with long pauses, waiting for students to show up. She learns from them rather than only imposing her ideas and information.
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 relatively …
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 in …
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