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Using Live-Actor Simulations to Teach Novice Students

    Copyright, Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. FAAN December 4, 2014 Clinical nursing education demands different pedagogical strategies for the novice (first year of academic clinical education) than the senior student, who has a much better sense of what is most and least important (salience) and much better ability to recognize the nature of the …

Students interact with actor in a simulation

Simulation Pre-Briefing and Debriefing: Creating Safe Disclosive Spaces for High Impact Learning

  Stephanie Sideras, R.N., Ph.D., Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. Copyright Patricia Benner, Stephanie Sideras 2014 Clinical nursing faculty experienced in simulation pedagogy seek the deep learning that is possible for students during an intensely realistic situated learning activity.  The ability to structure, control and repeat a specific learning activity for the benefit of novice students …