Dear NLN Colleagues: Thanks to all of you who stopped by our Educating Nurses booth. I enjoyed all the conversations and I know that many of you enjoyed talking to our Master Teachers, Diane Pestolesi and Lisa Day. Many of you noted that you are or soon will be engaged in curriculum revision. We have …
This full article is only available to our members but please enjoy our preview below. Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN Learning a practice discipline is ideal for both simulation and direct experiential learning from practice. But the design of the simulations must be practice-domain specific and pedagogically sound for teaching good practice. Teaching nursing practice …
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Dialogue with Dr. Kristin Heggen, Professor of Nursing and Deputy Dean of Studies, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo and Consultant on the Norwegian Translation of Educating Nurses, A Call for Radical Transformation. This full article is only available to our members but please enjoy our preview below. Patricia Benner: We have had some of …
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This full article is only available to our members but please enjoy our preview below. I hope that members will seriously consider the three positions for teachers and students in their stances: 1. Student Focused: A student centered stance, which focuses primarily, on the students’ preferences, choices, and concerns. 2. Teacher Focused: A teacher performance centered …
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This full article is only available to our members but please enjoy our preview below. On May 9th, 2011, I met with about 200 Idaho and Northwest nurses and nurse educators at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho. It was a rich day of sharing successful nursing specific pedagogical strategies. For example, one nurse told …