A mother and daughter's reflections on nursing education. Interview by Sandra Schmidt Bunkers

The following column presents a conversation with a mother and daughter enrolled in nursing education programs. Both mother and daughter utilized the teaching-learning strategies of dialogue and reflective journaling in coming to understand the meaning of their experiences in nursing education. The following ideas surfaced from their conversation: the importance of nursing theory-based teaching-learning, the importance of mentoring across the academic-clinical spectrum, the importance of questioning as a teaching-learning strategy, and, the importance of valuing time when developing teaching-learning experiences in nursing.