Metacognition: state-of-the-art learning theory implications for clinical nursing education
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Efficient learning of highly complex and technical subjects demands effective metacognition. Metacognition is how the mind solves problems by recalling, assimilating, analyzing, integrating, and evaluating information. Current knowledge about memory processing points the way to strategies for teaching effective metacognition to student nurses. Strategies include posing questions, giving the overall picture before details, teaching specific textbook reading techniques, offering classification systems and outlines, using visual images and metaphors, teaching mnemonics, and rehearsing skills.
Publication Name: Holistic Nursing Practice
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0887-9311
Year: 1996
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Discovering the Value of Nursing in High-Technology Environments: Outcomes Revisited
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Theories of nursing as caring can help health care personnel identify human and ethical values in medical practice. Although new technologies are intended to improve patient outcomes, often procedures and efforts are focused on mechanical processes at the expense of attention to the patient. By using human caring as a framework, nurses can redirect the emphasis away from technology and back to patients.
Publication Name: Holistic Nursing Practice
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0887-9311
Year: 1998
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