Patricia Benner & Molly Sutphen 
Educating Nurses [PDF ebook] 
A Call for Radical Transformation

Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xv
The Authors xix
Introduction 1
PART ONE Transformation, Crisis, and Opportunity 17
1. A Profession Transformed 19
2. Teaching and Learning in Clinical Situations 41
3. Teaching and Learning in the Classroom and Skills Lab 63
4. A New Approach to Nursing Education 81
PART TWO Teaching for a Sense of Salience 93
5. Paradigm Case: Diane Pestolesi, Practitioner and Teacher 97
6. Strategies for Teaching for a Sense of Salience 109
PART THREE Integrative Teaching for Clinical Imagination 127
7. Paradigm Case: Lisa Day, Classroom and Clinical Instructor 131
8. Developing a Clinical Imagination 143
9. Connecting Classroom and Clinical Through Integrative Teaching and Learning 155
PART FOUR Teaching for Moral Imagination 165
10. Paradigm Case: Sarah Shannon, Nurse Ethicist 169
11. Being a Nurse 177
12. Formation from a Critical Stance 201
PART FIVE A Call for Radical Transformation 211
13. Improving Nursing Education at the Program Level 215
Appendix: Methods for the Carnegie National Nursing Education Study 231
References 239
Index 249

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.