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Committee work: serendipitous teaching and learning.

Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing

|January 1, 1990

Summary

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Registered nurses learn more than they teach in professional nursing committees. These meetings serve as valuable adult learning opportunities, fostering new information and collaboration skills.

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Area of Science:

Nursing
Adult Education
Organizational Behavior

Background:

Professional nursing organizations rely on committees for operational functions.
Understanding informal learning within these committees is crucial for professional development.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate incidental teaching and learning among registered nurses (RNs) within professional nursing organization committees.
To identify the nature and extent of learning and teaching activities during committee meetings.

Main Methods:

A questionnaire was administered to 115 RNs serving on District committees.
Data collection focused on experiences of incidental teaching and learning during committee meetings.
A response rate of 40% was achieved with 46 returned questionnaires.

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Main Results:

Learning was reported more frequently than teaching among committee members.
Incidental learning primarily occurred through group discussions and project work.
Nurses acquired new information, psychomotor skills, and enhanced group collaboration abilities.
Participants described their contributions more as sharing and contributing than direct teaching.

Conclusions:

Committee meetings within professional nursing organizations facilitate significant incidental learning for RNs.
These committee activities represent an effective, albeit informal, adult educational method.
Further exploration of optimizing learning within these organizational structures is warranted.