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Higher-Order Productive Thinking in Clinical Teaching and Learning

Situated Learning, Understanding Learning as Embodied, Embedded in Context, and Extended in Interaction with Context — A Video of Situated Use of Knowledge in Clinical Learning EducatingNurses.com, Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. FAAN   March 10, 2018 Practice-based learning requires that the student learn directly from practice, not just apply theory, but through attentiveness and curiosity gain …

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Interview: Dr. Elizabeth Gross Cohn, “Often, first year students feel there’s nothing they can do….”

  Dr. Cohn provides the background behind her monologue, “The Patient in 9-Window”. She tells us about the different responses from students as they’ve watched her perform this monologue in Nursing Fundamentals. And she tells us about other innovative ways she engages with her students throughout their time in her class. Our thanks to Adelphi University …

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Rethinking Clinical and Classroom Teaching and Learning

  Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. FAAN, 2017 Our pedagogies of clinical and classroom teaching are still lodged firmly in the old-fashioned artificial intelligence mode (outdated cognitivism) and outdated neuroscience models about how the brain works. Old-fashioned artificial intelligence and cognitivism ignore the necessary role of embodied skilled know-how and perceptual grasp of actual clinical situations for …

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Bringing Clinical and Classroom Together: Integrative Pedagogies

  Patricia Benner copyright 2013 Enrich your classroom by thinking about and reviewing new strategies; it will help you align your teaching with learning goals. To that end, I’ve put together pedagogies highly recommended for bringing together both classroom and clinical aspects of learning how to think and act like a nurse.  This may trigger …

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Upgrading and Integrating Clinical and Science Knowledge: New Educational Strategies for New and Future Nursing Students

  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 to seek innovative strategies in curriculum change and classroom teaching to …

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Interdisciplinary Team Teaching

COMPANION ARTICLE COMPANION VIDEO 1 COMPANION VIDEO 2 Interdisciplinary Team Teaching at UPenn: An Effective Method for Teaching Situated Thinking and Use of Knowledge. This class is titled “Integrated Anatomy, Physiology and Physical Assessment, I and II” and is taught second semester, freshman year and first semester, sophomore year. This course pairs a nurse practitioner …

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