Centring Human Connections in the Education of Health Professionals

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a gentle tone? Would those gestures (and how they made you feel) fit with the definition of immediacy as feeling a sense of psychological closeness to another person?How can you affirm immediacy in your own teaching practice? Which approaches to verbal and non-verbal communication might help to reassure learners that you are open to and genuinely interested in supporting and guiding them toward success? How could you communicate this if you were teaching in an online learning milieu? PraxisAdult educator and philosopher Paulo Friere (1970) added to our understanding of humanizing pedagogies with his view of learners as co-creators of knowledge rather than recipients of information. Friere viewed education as a mutual process of critical consciousness in which educators and learners share a radical philosophy that actively challenges oppression, injustice, inequity, and societal conditions in the world around them. He defined this process of reflecting critically, and then acting to transform existing structures, as praxis.In Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Friere (1970) argued against traditional banking approaches in which learners are perceived as empty accounts that need to be filled by educators. Banking approaches are characterized by educators who tell students what to do, what to learn, and what to think, and they seldom provide opportunities for learners to offer input, suggestions, or feedback about their education (Salazar, 2013).In contrast, Friere (1970) called for educators to consider learners' unique abilities, backgrounds, languages, and interests rather than treating all learners the same. Known for his work to empower oppressed adults in impoverished communities through literacy education, Friere asserted that hierarchies of power exist between educators and learners. He advocated for democratic relationships, critical examination of existing and accepted assumptions, and collaborative problem-posing dialogue in educational activities.Praxis, with its emphasis on critical reflection followed by challenge and action, extends the notion of humanizing pedagogies beyond approaches that are friendly, relatable, and rich in demonstrations of immediacy. In health professions education, required disciplinary knowledge, technical skills, and

Professional values and role socialization of new NPs

“…Values provide a foundation for how nurses behave and perform 1. Ensuring that nursing students understand the values specific to the nursing role is essential for professional practice 1-3.…”

“…Values provide a foundation for how nurses behave and perform 1. Ensuring that nursing students understand the values specific to the nursing role is essential for professional practice 1-3. Individuals learn the roles, behaviors, values, and knowledge specific to their profession and new position through the process of socialization 4.…”

“…Individuals learn the roles, behaviors, values, and knowledge specific to their profession and new position through the process of socialization 4. Professional socialization for nursing students is the process by which they “develop a sense of self as members of a profession, internalize the values of their profession, and exhibit these values through their behavior” 1. This adaptation starts at the beginning of one's nursing program and continues throughout college and as new RNs move into the workforce.…”

“…Socialization involves two components, organizational socialization—or adapting within the formal and informal organizational culture—and professional socialization 1. Professional socialization is a complex, dynamic, continual, and unpredictable process involving learning, interaction, development, and adaptation.…”

“…Effective incorporation of identity as a nurse is linked to effective professional socialization; as one acquires values, norms, and knowledge and skills paramount to nursing through socialization, one forms an identity as a nurse 4,5. Identity differentiates how members of one profession distinguish themselves from those in another 1. Professional identity is one's self conceptualization about one's profession, where nurses develop a sense of unity with the profession and understand the specific role one has as part of the profession 8.…”