Browsing by Author "Wild, Carol"

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    Developing nursing leadership competencies in baccalaureate undergraduate students
    (2015) Pollard, Cheryl; Wild, Carol
    Leadership and followership competencies are a critical competency for nurses. Facilitating the development of these competencies in students is essential to ensure their successful transition into a registered nursing role. Students and nurses demonstrate these competencies through the use of communication strategies that are embedded within a relational practice. Health care professionals, regardless of formal position, need to assert their opinions and perspectives using a communication style that demonstrates value of all team members in open discussions about quality patient care, appropriate access, and stewardship. Challenges to effective communication and relational practice are the individual and organizational pattern of behaviour, and the subsequent impact that these behaviours have on others. Several strategies have been used to help students develop confidence in using their relational communication skills. Changes to the course were based on the result of quality improvement activities. As a result low-fidelity simulations are now used to help students gaRN situational awareness when they conduct a critical analysis of individual, team, and organizational functioning, and then use this information and evidence gained from a critical literature review to develop recommendations to improve individual, team, and/or organizational performance. Additionally the leadership and followership simulation exercises, inclusive of public feedback and debriefing, are used as a pedagogical/andragogical strategy in a nursing baccalaureate senior leadership course to facilitate learning of team communication skills and improve situational awareness. We view this strategy as an alternative to traditional classroom learning activities which provide little opportunity for recursive learning.
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    Habitus: An ontological space fostering humanistic nursing education
    (2021) Maykut, Colleen; Wild, Carol
    This text is an essential resource for all nurses interested in or engaged in education. As an emancipatory text it evokes informed action. For those already aware of the need for educational reform, it will provide support and new ideas needed to advance your work. For those new to these concepts, this book will be the spark to ignite your participation in the transformation of nursing education.
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    Heutagogy enacting caring sciences practice
    (2019) Maykut, Colleen; Wild, Carol; May, Nicole
    Nursing education, grounded in Caring Sciences, must also reflect a relational approach reflecting equity between student and teacher and a learning process which is humanized – interactive, engaging, and relevant. This relational approach creates a shared ethical and moral space that fosters an inner journey of contemplation, connection, consciousness and meaning informed by peace, power and truth, to connect simultaneously with others where all may learn and flourish. It is through engagement, a conscious connection, where learners (both teacher and student) negotiate choices, create tensions through discourse, and derive meaning of this shared experience (Hills & Watson, 2011). This engagement “leads to better persistence, learning, and achievement” (Bryson, 2016, p. 84) and ultimately the formation of a collaborative partnership for learning, creating, and evolving. Blaschke (2012) states the following concepts are instrumental in a curriculum grounded in heutagogy: capability, self-reflection and metacognition, double-loop learning and nonlinear learning, as well as teaching processes which foster self-determined learning. A learning contract is established, followed by learning activities which foster critical thinking and creativity, and finally learning outcomes are assessed (Blaschke & Hase, 2016). Teaching is about being in relationship, recognizing that learning occurs in relationship which is transformational and empowering. Success in transformational learning creates transcendent moments where we experience “that which is beyond us” where we tap into the collective unconscious and a critical consciousness emerges (Walker, 2010).
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    Nursing leadership competencies: low-fidelity simulation as a teaching strategy
    (2014) Pollard, Cheryl; Wild, Carol
    Nurses must demonstrate leadership and followership competencies within complex adaptive team environments to ensure patient and staff safety, effective use of resources, and an adaptive health care system. These competencies are demonstrated through the use of communication strategies that are embedded within a relational practice. Health care professionals, regardless of formal position, need to assert their opinions and perspectives using a communication style that demonstrates value of all team members in open discussions about quality patient care, appropriate access, and stewardship. Challenges to effective communication and relational practice are the individual and organizational patterns of behavior, and the subsequent impact that these behaviors have on others. Students articulate situational awareness when they conduct a critical analysis of individual, team, and organizational functioning, and then use this information and evidence gained from a critical literature review to develop recommendations to improve individual, team, and/or organizational performance. Leadership and followership simulation exercises, inclusive of public feedback and debriefing, are used as a pedagogical/andragogical strategy in a nursing baccalaureate senior leadership course to facilitate learning of team communication skills and improve situational awareness. We view this strategy as an alternative to traditional classroom learning activities which provide little opportunity for recursive learning.