Becoming a Nurse Aide: An Investigation of an Existing Workplace Curriculum in a Nursing Home

Abstract:
Although nurse aides take on a high share of care activities in nursing homes, almost nothing is known about how they develop the knowledge and skills to do so. This study attempts to close this research gap by answering the following research questions: (1) How do novice aides learn and develop and how is their learning trajectory structured? (2) What are the potential and problems of these informal training schemes? (3) How can the enacted training schemes be improved to assure effective and efficient learning and development of novice aides? In total, 19 nurses were interviewed to answer these questions. The analysis revealed that novice aides learn almost exclusively through observation and imitation as well as explanations of more experienced nurses. The typical learning trajectory of aides is structured such that they start to care for residents described as “simple” and progressively proceed to take care of more “difficult” ones. Such a trajectory allows nurses to construct hierarchically ordered knowledge in a meaningful way, minimises consequences of potential errors, and attempts to avoid discouragement that leads to early dropout and turnover. Strong learning potential has been found in more formalised discussion opportunities where collective experience with residents is discussed. Problems in acquiring the required knowledge and skills arise especially when instructing nurses believe that the prior experience of novices is sufficient for the work at hand, as well as when work practices require competences that are highly opaque. Suggestions of how to avoid pitfalls and how to foster existing learning potential are given.
Author Listing: Michael Goller;Bianca Steffen;Christian Harteis
Volume: 12
Pages: 67-85
DOI: 10.1007/S12186-018-9209-Z
Language: English
Journal: Vocations and Learning

Vocations and Learning

VOCAT LEARN

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Vocations and Learning: Studies in Vocational and Professional Education is an international peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for strongly conceptual and carefully prepared manuscripts that inform the broad field of vocational learning. The scope of the journal and its focus on vocational learning is inclusive of vocational and professional learning albeit through the very diverse range of settings (e.g. vocational colleges, schools, universities, workplaces, domestic environments, voluntary bodies etc) in which it occurs. It stands to be the only truly international journal that focuses on vocational learning, as encompassing the activities that comprise vocational education and professional education in their diverse forms internationally. Vocations and Learning aims to: enhance the contribution of research and scholarship to vocational and professional education policy; support the development of conceptualisation(s) of vocational and professional learning and education; improve the quality of practice within vocational and professional learning and education; and enhance and support the standing of these fields as a sectors with its own significant purposes, pedagogies and curriculums. Vocations and Learning: Studies in Vocational and Professional Education encourages the submission of high-quality contributions from a broad range of disciplines, as well as those that cross disciplinary boundaries, in addressing issues associated with vocational and professional education. It is intended that contributions will represent those from major disciplines (i.e. psychology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, history, cultural studies, labour studies, industrial relations and economics) as cross overs within and hybrids with and amongst these disciplinary traditions. These contributions can comprise papers that provide either empirically-based accounts, discussions of theoretical perspectives or reviews of literature about vocational learning. In addition, books, reports and policies associated with vocational learning will also be reviewed. Topics addressed through contributions within the proposed journal might include, but will not be restricted to: curriculum and pedagogy practices for vocational learning the role and nature of knowledge in vocational learning the nature of vocations, professional practice and learning the relationship between context and learning in vocational settings the nature and role of vocational education the nature of goals for vocational learning different manifestations and comparative analyses of vocational education, their purposes and formation organisational pedagogics transformations in vocational learning and education over time and space analyses of instructional practice within vocational learning and education analyses of vocational learning and education policies international comparisons of vocational learning and education critical appraisal of contemporary policies, practices and initiatives studies of teaching and learning in vocational education approaches to vocational learning in non-work settings and in unpaid work learning throughout working lives relationships between vocational learning and economic imperatives and conceptions and national and trans-national agencies and their policies.

职业和学习:《职业和专业教育研究》是一本国际同行评审期刊,为强有力的概念性和精心准备的手稿提供了一个论坛,这些手稿为职业学习的广泛领域提供了信息。该杂志的范围及其对职业学习的关注涵盖了职业和专业学习,尽管它发生在非常不同的环境中(例如职业学院、学校、大学、工作场所、家庭环境、志愿机构等)。它是唯一一份真正关注职业学习的国际期刊,涵盖了国际上各种形式的职业教育和专业教育活动。职业与学习旨在:加强研究和学术对职业和专业教育政策的贡献;支持职业和专业学习和教育的概念化发展;提高职业和专业学习和教育的实践质量;并提高和支持这些领域作为一个部门的地位,使其具有自己的重要目的、教学法和课程。职业和学习:职业和专业教育研究鼓励提交来自广泛学科以及跨学科边界的高质量论文,以解决与职业和专业教育相关的问题。其意图是,贡献将代表那些来自主要学科(即心理学、哲学、社会学、人类学、历史学、文化研究、劳工研究、劳资关系和经济学)的贡献,作为这些学科传统内部的交叉和混合。这些贡献可以包括论文,提供经验为基础的帐户,理论观点的讨论或有关职业学习的文献评论。此外,还将审查与职业学习相关的书籍、报告和政策。通过在提议的期刊中发表的文章讨论的主题可能包括但不限于:职业学习的课程与教学实践知识在职业学习中的作用与性质职业的性质职业实践与学习的关系职业环境中的情境与学习职业教育的性质与作用职业学习目标的性质职业教育的不同表现形式与比较分析职业学习和教育的目的和形成组织教育学职业学习和教育在时间和空间上的转变职业学习和教育中的教学实践分析职业学习和教育政策分析职业学习和教育的国际比较学习和教育对当代政策、做法和举措的批判性评估职业教育中的教与学的研究在非工作环境中的职业学习和在整个职业生涯中的无酬工作学习职业学习与经济必要性和概念之间的关系以及国家和跨国机构及其政策。

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