Webinar Series: Teaching Tanner's Clinical Reasoning & Judgment

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Jul 17, 2026 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM Friday

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This 4-part webinar series, led by Dr. Chris Tanner and a team of experts in Clinical Reasoning and Judgment, will be presented via Zoom over four Fridays. Paid registrants will also be provided with new pre-publication manuscripts which seek to clarify and build on the 2006 widely adopted, research-based Tanner Clinical Judgment Model (TCJM).

Each 2-hour session will include brief lectures, case studies, breakout rooms, and narrative accounts for you to deepen your understanding of the model, and to explore educational applications that you can use in your classroom, in simulation, or in post-clinical conferences. You'll be provided with a new assessment rubric and situated coaching questions, linked to the TCJM, to help you foster improvement in your learners' clinical reasoning and judgment. You'll have access to a collection of narrative accounts of practice, indexed to particular clinical reasoning skills, to required concepts and content, and to CCNE competencies. These narratives are based on actual practice, with real patient situations, by nurses at all levels of practice and are excellent sources of case-based teaching.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of these webinars, attendees will be able to:

  • Describe the Tanner Clinical Judgment Model (TCJM), including the background (nurses' background, knowing the patient, clinical context), and the phases of clinical reasoning (noticing, interpreting, responding, reflection in practice-or reasoning in transition) reflection on practice.
  • Identify key aspects of the TCJM through interpreting narratives from actual practice.
  • Link situated coaching questions with each aspect of the TCJM.
  • Identify situated coaching questions to be used with learners for each part of narrative accounts.
  • Discuss how situated coaching can be used in simulation and in actual clinical practice.
  • Describe the use of the Tanner Clinical Judgment Rubric to support development of clinical judgment.
  • Analyze the level of clinical reasoning in narrative accounts of practice.
  • Analyze examples of clinical learning activities for their feasibility and usefulness in creating opportunities for clinical coaching.
  • Develop at least one clinical learning activity which can used within the traditional clinical education model.

 

Speaker

Christine Tanner, PhD, BS, MS, FAAN

Deborah Stamps, EdD, MBA, MS, RN, GNP, NE-BC, CDE®, FAAN, is an experienced health care leader, educator, and consultant with over 30 years of expertise in nursing, leadership development, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ). As the CEO and founder of Deborah Stamps Consulting LLC, she helps organizations build inclusive leadership, enhance workforce development, and achieve health equity. Recognized as one of the nation’s most influential diversity leaders, she received the Leadership Excellence Award at the National Diversity and Leadership Conference in 2021 and was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2023.

 

 

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