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. 2022 Jan 13;55(1):91–99. doi: 10.1177/08445621211073439

Table 1.

SBN Online Course Modules and Learning Objectives.

SBN in Clinical Teaching: Modules and Learning Objectives
Module 1: Strengths-Based Nursing
1. Develop an awareness of SBN and its potential to provide nurses with a lens to guide actions and decisions.
2. Describe the tools of SBN: the foundational pillars, the value wheel, and the spiraling process.
3. Identify ways to work with a person's strengths.
4. Recognize when SBN is being used in practice.
Module 2: Strengths-Based Teaching and Learning
1. Outline how the Strengths-Based Teaching and Learning (SBTL) approach promotes learning.
2. Explain how the collaborative partnership between student, preceptor, and faculty is central to SBTL.
3. Describe the tools of SBTL: eight core values, role modeling, and reflective practice.
4. Identify ways to work with a student's strengths.
Module 3: Clinical Learning Environment
1. Recall how the quality of the clinical learning environment (CLE) can impact a student's learning and success.
2. Recognize the importance of creating the conditions that promote a student's sense of belonging and trust in the clinical learning environment.
3. Describe the strategies and tools that a preceptor can use to create a quality CLE for students.
Module 4: Clinical Reasoning
1. Define clinical reasoning and describe the competencies that promote the development of clinical reasoning skills.
2. Recall how the values underlying SBN can be incorporated into the clinical reasoning process.
3. Describe how the use of questions, the Think Aloud Method, and 5-Minute Preceptor can help students develop their clinical reasoning skills.
4. Describe the phases of the Clinical Reasoning Cycle.
Module 5: Feedback and Assessment
1. Define the three types of feedback conversations: praise, coaching, and evaluation.
2. Identify guidelines that can be used to deliver effective feedback to students.
3. Describe how to engage in feedback conversations using a SBTL approach.
4. Recall how and when the Spiraling Process and the Reflective Coaching Feedback Conversation Method can be used to engage in coaching feedback conversations.
5. Identify students who are experiencing difficulty in clinical practice and describe strategies to support them.