Abstract

The role of the nurse has changed dramatically in the past twenty years with increasing complexity of patient care and a rapidly changing health care environment. In addition to the challenges noted regarding patient care, problems with increasing medical errors were noted in the literature specific to graduates in their first year as a nurse. Research in particular to nursing education provides a way for nurse educators to become more astute at addressing problems pervading the role of the new nursing graduate. Narrative Pedagogy was identified as a research-based nursing pedagogy and has been researched and enacted for more than a decade. Out of the Narrative Pedagogy research, the Concernful Practices emerged identifying what was considered meaningful to nursing education by teachers, students, and clinicians. Listening was one of the Concernful Practices and became the focus of this study. The research question addressed the ";How do nurse educators who enable Narrative Pedagogy experience Listening: knowing and connecting?"; This was a hermeneutic phenomenological study in which ten nurse educators shared their experiences. The two themes that emerged from the study included: Listening as Dialogue and Listening as Attunement. The findings of this study provided a different way of thinking about teaching and learning that encompasses so much more than merely a strategy or outcome-based approach. The implications of this study offer nurse educators insight about opening a dialogue that draws attention to the realities of the role of the nurse responding to multiple patients with complex health conditions.

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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 3665917; ProQuest document ID: 1640762885. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Wendy S. Bowles, PhD, APRN-CNP, CNE

Sigma Membership

Epsilon

Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Phenomenology

Research Approach

Qualitative Research

Keywords:

Nursing Education, Nurse Educators, Teaching Methods, Narrative Pedagogy, Concernful Practice of Listening

Advisor

Sharon L. Sims

Second Advisor

Pamela M. Ironside

Third Advisor

Melinda M. Swenson

Fourth Advisor

Joshua S. Smith

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

Indiana University

Degree Year

2014

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Review Type

None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2021-11-30

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