Safety in numbers 3: Authenticity, Building knowledge & skills and Competency development & assessment: The ABC of safe medication dosage calculation problem-solving pedagogy

Nurse Education in Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Weeks, Keith W ^a   Meriel Hutton, B ^b   Coben, Diana ^c   Clochesy, John M ^d   Pontin, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Authentic assessment; Authentic learning; Cognitive apprenticeship; Competence; Constructivism; Medication dosage calculation; Situated cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DOSE CALCULATION; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PATIENT SAFETY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DRUG DOSAGE CALCULATIONS; EDUCATION, DISTANCE; EDUCATION, NURSING; HUMANS; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; MODELS, NURSING; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PATIENT SAFETY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84875380510     PISSN: 14715953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2012.10.011     Document Type: Article

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