Learning From Shared Narratives: Pulling It All Together
CHAPTER 10 Learning From Shared Narratives: Pulling It All Together If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. —Orson Welles, in the…
Reflections of a Clinical Educator in an Associate Degree Nursing Program
CHAPTER 8 Reflections of a Clinical Educator in an Associate Degree Nursing Program Felicia Michelle Glasgow The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think…
Making a Difference
CHAPTER 2 Making a Difference Simply offering a harrowed family member a cup of coffee may make a difference. Sitting patiently as they express their fears or ask questions means…
Socratic Pedagogy: Teaching Students to Think Like Nurses
CHAPTER 6 Socratic Pedagogy: Teaching Students to Think Like Nurses Christine Sorrell Dinkins Education isn’t what some people declare it to be, namely, putting knowledge into souls that lack it,…
Moving From an “Expert” to a “Novice” Role
CHAPTER 1 Moving From an “Expert” to a “Novice” Role The concept of expert to novice is not new to me. In part, because I have had so many roles…
Clinical Evaluation of Students: Where Does Learning Stop and Evaluation Begin?
CHAPTER 4 Clinical Evaluation of Students: Where Does Learning Stop and Evaluation Begin? One instructor … would yell and belittle us in front of the other students. … I firmly…
Power of Faculty: The Tact of Teaching
CHAPTER 3 Power of Faculty: The Tact of Teaching Staff made it clear that students were unwelcome by stating, “What? We have to have a student?! We don’t even have…
Mentors Needed!
CHAPTER 5 Mentors Needed! Please mentor me! Don’t just orient me. —Joanie Nurse clinicians who have decided to transition to the clinical nurse educator role are usually enthusiastic and motivated…
