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Needed: Clinical Leaders for Excellent Nursing Practice

Eloise Balasco Cathcart. MSN, RN, FAAN Director of Education, EducatingNurses.com Patricia Benner, MSN, R.N. Ph.D., FAAN. Executive Director, EducatingNurses.com  “Most acute care units are now staffed with less seasoned nurses. Many young nurses don’t experience that awe when they watch a mentor intuitively grasp that the patient is crashing, even before any data exists. I …

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Enriching and Extending Experiential Learning from Clinical Practice, Why Learning from Practice is Indispensable

January  2024 Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN John Benner, Doctoral Candidate University of Washington, Seattle, WA The primary goal of clinical assignments is for students to experientially learn directly from practice what cannot be learned any other way or from any other sources. This is as much about learning how to learn from clinical experience …

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Facilitating Students’ Learning from Practice: The Centrality of Experiential Learning in Practice Disciplines

Educators in all practice disciplines have erred on the side of thinking that all knowledge is just a matter of “applying” what is conceptually and technically already known, a rational-calculation approach Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. FAAN John Benner, Doctoral Candidate at University of Washington, Seattle, WA Experiential learning directly from practice is central to all …

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Dr. Benner on Nursing Process & Clinical Reasoning Process
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VIDEO: Teaching Clinical Reasoning – Helping Students Become More Test and Practice-Ready

  Patricia Benner on the nature of clinical reasoning, and the importance focusing on key aspects of clinical reasoning in practice: situational awareness, rapid clinical reasoning, and thinking-in-action. A better understanding and teaching of clinical reasoning will make students more test-ready and more practice-ready. This is especially relevant to help new graduates for the upcoming …

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Creating Safe Learning Environments that Encourage Growth and Active learning.

Patricia Benner, R.N. Ph.D., FAAN, John Benner, Doctoral Candidate New graduate nurses face heavy patient loads, daily life-or-death decisions, nursing work groups with high-turnover rates, and inexperienced co-workers, all made more difficult by the new levels of hospital care demands created by the COVID-19 epidemic. Evidence grows that new graduates are not prepared to meet …

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An Introduction to Classroom Discussion Triggers

by Patricia Benner, copyright 1-30-2015 In honor and appreciation for my Mentor in Nursing Education, Dr. Rheba De Tornay, and with encouragement and examples from Dr. Sarah Shannon at University of Washington, I am introducing the Pedagogical Strategy of “Discussion Triggers”, a provocative, often dramatic introduction to a topic for discussion, inquiry, and problem-solving.  As …

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Dr. Benner & Dr. Chan on Rapid clinical reasoning in a clinical crisis
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A Rich First-Person Narrative Account of Rapid Clinical Reasoning, Situational Awareness and Situated Thinking in action.

  Dr. Garrett Chan, RN, PhD, FAAN,  provides a clinical example from his own practice as an expert Emergency Department Nurse. Please reflect on the nature of his clinical reasoning, his situational awareness, and his rapid mobilization of the surgical team, as well as how he considered the significance of informing the wife of how …

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Clinical Reasoning: A Science-Using Form of Practical Reasoning that Includes a Concern for Responsible Actions Towards Patients/Families.

  Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. FAAN Professor Emerita, University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. Copyright 2022 This month’s video presents a lecture by Patricia Benner on the nature of Clinical Reasoning, and the importance of focusing on key aspects of clinical reasoning in practice: situational awareness, rapid clinical reasoning, and thinking-in-action. Better understanding and …

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From Novice to Mastery-II, The Dreyfus and Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition in Nursing Practice

Teaching and learning implications of the Dreyfus and Dreyfus Skill Acquisition Model Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN May 30, 2022 In this video Patricia Benner describes and explains the changes that occur with the development of expertise and mastery, based upon extensive research using the Dreyfus and Dreyfus model of Skill Acquisition (Benner, Tanner, Chesla, …

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