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  This full article is only available to our members but please enjoy our preview below. Multiple frames of reference, like multiple modes/styles of thinking, are essential to effective nursing care. The nurse must consider several frames of reference in most situated thinking in clinical nursing practice: human, psycho-social issues, medical considerations, particular patient/family concerns, …

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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 …

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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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