RAPPORT
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Issue 1 (2015)
Incipient professional consciousness
Students described their learning process with
learning outcomes, learning needs and preferred
learning style: “I put a lot of emphasis on caring
for people in an ethical way” (D2A), “I have
learned about neurological diseases ...” (D3A),”I
want to be 100% sure that what I do is right ... I
should be allowed to increase my courage” (D5R),
and “I think communicating with a patient can be
difficult” (D7T). These quotations contain
considerations about values, learning outcomes,
and learning needs. It is an incipient
consciousness of one’s own position compared to
competent nursing practice, which can give a
preceptor an impression of the student’s previous
learning processes and their expectations of the
clinical course. In the present meeting, the
preceptor has to find out what the student means
by “100 % sure”, how to facilitate her courage to
take action, and perhaps guide her to understand
that, to some extent, being sure often comes from
taking action. It is necessary to ask the student to
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