- Title
- Awakening and engaging in your learning
- Creator
- Lyons, Judith
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/166915
- Identifier
- vital:13525
- Identifier
- ISBN:978-1-108-43528-4
- Abstract
- This chapter discusses what it means to be an awake student and how you can be an engaged student to take the maximum advantage of the learning environment. It will explore the interrelationship of being an awake student and an awake nurse. Nursing requires constantly observing the situation, being aware of the context of practice, the situation or event in which you are taking part, and the patient in your care in order to make professional nursing decisions. To be successful in learning and practice, you will need to develop the graduate attributes of a nurse. These including being a professional and ethical decision-maker, politically astute situational leader and citizen, socially and culturally aware agent of change, critically reflective thinker adept in clinical reasoning, creative problem-solver, skilled therapeutic communicator, capable interdisciplinary healthcare team member and competent, caring, safe and professional nurse (Federation University Australia 2015). This chapter also provides ideas for how to overcome difficulties and engage in your learning together with ways that will help you to spend effective time in your learning endearvour. It discusses how you can transition to university learning in a way that makes you an equal partner in the learning process towards becoming an independent learner.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Relation
- The road to nursing Chapter 2 p. 16-28
- Rights
- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2019
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Nursing; Study and teaching; Vocational guidence; Australia
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