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Online Tea Cafés: Using Caring Science To Transform Digital Learning Spaces And Advance Nursing Leadership, Lisa Sara Goldberg, Les T. Johnson, Sandra F. Murphy

Quality Advancement in Nursing Education - Avancées en formation infirmière

Given the current trend toward online nursing education and the recent changes to teaching and learning modalities as a result of a global pandemic, developing a distance-learning pedagogy for students that seeks to explore the power of compassion in the digital world is both timely and necessary. Drawing on pedagogical strategies used in an online nursing course including asynchronous online discussions called Tea Cafés, the authors showcase how they advanced knowledge and understanding in relation to nursing leadership and professional formation. By underpinning the authors’ distance-learning pedagogy in caring science, students not only thrived, but created a strong sense of …