Research Blog#12: Book Review #4

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Young, Lynne E., and Barbara L. Paterson. Teaching Nursing: Developing a Student-centered

            Learning Environment. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007. Print.

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This book focuses on how a "learner-centered teaching approach" is the most effective way to help nursing students succeed. This book also focuses on the fact that since nursing programs are so difficult, the educators must give students their full attention. Overall, this book offers both students and educators of nursing how to get the most out of their experiences.

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Lynne E. Young is the associate director of graduate education for a nursing school. She is currently involved in many studies including nurse education. As mentioned in her book, she focuses on one specific method of nurse education which includes a "learner-centered teaching approach."

Barbara L. Paterson has written numerous publications relating to the field of nursing.

5.) Key terms:

transactional distance: the psychological distance that occurs in learners (often caused by miscommunication and psychological gaps occurring between the learner and the instructor)

dialectic: a tension between seemingly opposing forces of health and student stress where the tension itself becomes the site of interest rather than the binary poles of stress or health



6.) Quotations:

"...the experiences of disconnect or tension becomes part of the classroom texture that may be named by students, or arise indirectly through student behavior." (Page 427)

-I decided to use this quote because it uses the words "disconnect" and "tension." Emile Durkheim suggested that suicide is the result to a lack of connection between the individual and its society. Perhaps among nursing students there is a lack of connection within the students which inevitably causes there to be tension.


"...the tension of student health and stress/disease is only one of many contradictions students experience in classroom and clinical settings." (Page 426)
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 "Student stress is an expected aspect of any academic experience. However, research suggests that student nurses have additional stressors within clinical experiences that differentiate the nursing population from other academic and health-related disciplines." (Page 426)

-I chose the following two quotes above because they represent exactly what I am trying to prove in my paper. Nursing students are involved with a great deal of stress, not only compared to students in other fields but also in other health-related disciplines. Hence, "Sometimes nurses need to know more than what the doctor does."
"The ideal of student-centered teaching is that rather than students expending energy determining what the teacher wants, they explore and discover what they want and need to know." (Page 545)

-I chose this quote because it sums up what the student-centered teaching approach really means. I plan on using this as a solution in my paper.

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My research topic focuses on how nursing students are at greatest risk in comparison to students who are not in a professional program. This material offers solutions on how educators can help their students cut back on the stressors that their program inevitably causes upon them. Initially, I planned on including solutions in my paper that involve intense academic advising for nursing students. However, after reading segments of this book, I now have specific methods that have been created by a nursing program director.


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I felt this book was especially unique in comparison to previous books I researched because it contains useful material. For example, only in this book was I able to find ways in which teaching nursing can change in order to help the student prosper without as much stress caused by feeling isolated or alone.