Educating Nurses

PATRICIA BENNER directs The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s Study of Nursing Education and is professor emerita at the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. She is a nursing educator and author of From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Nursing Practice and other notable books on nursing practice and education. MOLLY SUTPHEN is on the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco and codirector of The Carnegie Foundation’s Study of Nursing Education. She is a historian who has published widely on nursing education and the history of ­international health. VICTORIA LEONARD is a former nurse educator in maternal child nursing and health policy. Currently, she is a family nurse practitioner and child care health consultant at the UCSF California Childcare Health Program. LISA DAY is a former nurse educator in critical care, acute care nursing, and ethics. ­Currently, she is a clinical nurse specialist for neuroscience and critical care at UCSF Medical Center. She authors the ethics column for the American Journal of Critical Care.

• Foreword ixAcknowledgments xvThe Authors xixIntroduction 1PART ONE Transformation, Crisis, and Opportunity 171. A Profession Transformed 192. Teaching and Learning in Clinical Situations 413. Teaching and Learning in the Classroom and Skills Lab 634. A New Approach to Nursing Education 81PART TWO Teaching for a Sense of Salience 935. Paradigm Case: Diane Pestolesi, Practitioner and Teacher 976. Strategies for Teaching for a Sense of Salience 109PART THREE Integrative Teaching for Clinical Imagination 1277. Paradigm Case: Lisa Day, Classroom and Clinical Instructor 1318. Developing a Clinical Imagination 1439. Connecting Classroom and Clinical Through Integrative Teaching and Learning 155PART FOUR Teaching for Moral Imagination 16510. Paradigm Case: Sarah Shannon, Nurse Ethicist 16911. Being a Nurse 17712. Formation from a Critical Stance 201PART FIVE A Call for Radical Transformation 21113. Improving Nursing Education at the Program Level 215Appendix: Methods for the Carnegie National Nursing Education Study 231References 239Index 249

"An excellent read for nurses seeking to improve their teaching in practice." (Nursing Standard, Sept, 2011)