Advancing health policy in nursing education through service learning

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The authors offer a model for teaching graduate nursing students about health policy using service learning and an operating framework that will enhance their political development. Significant factors include site selection, using a group practicum, and assessing the return on investment for students and faculty.

Author: Cohen, Sally Solomon, Milone-Nuzzo, Paula
Training, Community service, Community services

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Disavowal of the behaviorist paradigm in nursing education: what makes it so difficult to unseat?

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Many nurse educators are beginning to avoid the narrow view of nurses as passive learners due to a new emphasis on nurses as effecting social change. The traditional role of nurses as effecting health and learning outcomes nevertheless remains a significant part of nursing education and resists this shift.

Author: Romyn, Donna M.
Influence, Behaviorism (Psychology), Behaviorism

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Creating a research base for nursing education: an interpretive review of conventional, critical, feminist, postmodern, and phenomenologic pedagogies

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The National League for Nursing requests all nursing educators to increase their pedagogic literacy and to develop nursing pedagogies based on research. Narrative Pedagogy, a recent innovation, exemplifies the new direction such efforts can take.

Author: Ironside, Pamela M.
Evaluation, National League for Nursing

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Subjects list: Research, United States, Nurses, Study and teaching, Nursing, Education
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