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The Use of Narratives in Research, Practice, and Education

Video LibraryOur comprehensive Educating Nurses video library is available to subscribers only. To become a subscriber click the button below. Join now for full access Patricia Benner describes the historical development of the use of narratives. She explains and illustrates different ways of using first person experience near narrative accounts for research, practice and education.  …
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Additional Thoughts on Embodiment, Situated Thinking and Practice in the Use of Formal Concepts in Nursing Education and Practice

Patricia Benner, copyright 2013 This newsletter is a response to a reply to our April Newsletter entitled, “Reconceptualizing the Use of Concepts in Curriculum Design.”  We had a number of replies to the April newsletter.  I thought it would be helpful to extend the conversation through this response, since many of the issues raised are …

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Re-conceptualizing the Curricular and Pedagogical Uses of Concepts in Nursing Education

EducatingNurses.com:   Patricia Benner March, 26, 2013, copyright Last September’s Educating Nurses Newsletter, (2012) entitled Situating Concepts and Competencies in Nursing Education, Research, and Practice,  generated a lot of questions about re-thinking and updating the curricular and pedagogical uses of concepts central to nursing practice.  For example, concepts such as oxygenation and stress and coping lend …

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Less is More: Thinking about Deep Learning

Copyright Patricia Benner Newsletter for February 2013   Teaching for a Professional Practice has many additional demands than an introductory survey course. In a professional practice we expect students to develop deep learning that includes the three professional apprenticeships common to Professional Education. Along with my Carnegie colleagues, I am using the word “apprenticeship” metaphorically, and …

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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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University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Leads the Way in Upgrading Science Education Situated in Practice

  copyright Patricia Benner 2012 We think that faculty and graduate students will find these videos extremely useful for faculty development and teacher training. This newsletter will focus on the following topics: Curriculum transformation for current and future nurses Rethinking embodied skilled-know how Situating the upgrading of science education in the practice of nursing Innovative …

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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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Situating Concepts and Competencies in Nursing Education Research and Practice

Concepts and competencies are useful ways to organize a curriculum.  They identify knowledge and skills that can be used in multiple settings and situations. But they also can unwittingly limit thinking and achievement to an unintended narrow rational-technicality.  By narrow rational-technicality I mean excessive use of formal decision making models, based upon formal decision criteria.  …