Kristina Thomas Dreifuerst is passionate about teaching what she considers the key to high-quality nursing practice: weaving knowledge, skills, experience and reflection to create clinical reasoning. She brings her decades of research and advanced teaching methods on clinical reasoning to the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing as senior associate dean for academics.
“We can teach information and skills, but teaching them how to incorporate what they’ve learned to another level and develop individualized, appropriate plans of care is a challenge. So I have focused my research on how to best do that.”
Dreifuerst has spent her career researching the best ways to teach clinical reasoning by examining the cognitive brain science behind how people learn, as well as incorporating innovative ways to use technology to engage students.
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