Nurse educators are not all-knowing, they are constructors and facilitators of learning

Bosun-Arije, FS (2022) Nurse educators are not all-knowing, they are constructors and facilitators of learning. Nurse Education in Practice, 65. p. 103495. ISSN 1471-5953

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Abstract

The era of paternalism and didactic teaching has overstayed its time in Higher Education (HE), most importantly in Nurse education. Nurse educators are co-constructors of knowledge and facilitators of learning, not all-knowing instructors. Nurse educators should focus on developing and preparing nursing students for the expertise required in real-world settings (Mthembu and Mtshali, 2013). There is significant evidence that being a constructor of knowledge and facilitator of learning is critical to student nurses’ confidence-building and positive student learning experiences (Flott and Linden, 2016) and can create and sustain civility in nurse education (Clark, 2017). To be a constructor of knowledge and facilitator of learning does not imply that nurse educators should indulge the students but entails the adoption of innovative and reflective thinking for teaching and learning to flourish (Ironside, 2015, Patterson, 2021).