Dr. Benner and a Nurse speak with students behind a desk

Thriving During Your Dissertation Research — The Beginning of the Rest of Your Life

Patricia Benner, copyright 2014 Many faculty are teaching in the midst of completing doctoral studies, and summer is a time when focus on the doctoral studies is planned. Here are some tips I have learned over the last 30 years working with wonderful doctoral students. I wish I could write that sure-to-be bestseller, “How to …

Glenis McKenzie Simulation with students

Background Knowledge For Assessing Depression and Suicidal Risk

  Camtasia Podcast By Dr. Glenise McKenzie This podcast prepares students for an Assessment of Depression and Suicide risk on an “adolescent” in the classroom. Dr. McKenzie presents the epidemiology of depression across the lifespan, as well as presenting the assessment tools, genetic, biochemical, and environmental risk factors for depression and suicide across the lifespan. …

Simulation Actor works with nursing student

Using Improvisational Actors for Live High-Fidelity Simulation: Pre-Briefing and Debriefing, Keys to Deep Learning from Simulations

Patricia Benner R.N., Ph.D., In Conversation and Association with Dr. Stephanie Sedaris, Copyright 2014 Most agree that much of the learning from simulation comes from post-simulation debriefing and reflection, yet faculty are in the earliest stages of conducting research or even describing what is most and least effective in debriefing sessions after simulations. Prior to …

Teresa Grainger Teaching

Student Engagement in Learning Requires More than Getting the Student’s Attention

Pictured: Theresa Granger   Written By: Patricia Benner   Copyright May 2014     I have been learning from the Oregon Health Sciences Consortium (OCNE) Faculty about engaging students in the Big Ideas of the Profession, Authentic Clinical Learning from Unfolding Case Studies, and Problem- and Relationship-Oriented Engagement.  An upcoming interview with Dr. Christine Tanner on …