Teaching Tanner's Clinical Reasoning and Judgment:
Coaching Learners to Competence
A Four-Part NLN Live Webinar Series
Friday, July 17, 2026, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm (EDT)
Friday, July 24, 2026, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm (EDT)
Friday, July 31, 2026, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm (EDT)
Friday, August 7, 2026, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm (EDT)
- 11 contact hours / 1.1 CEUs -
To receive contact hours/CEUs, all registrants are required to attend or view the recording and pass the evaluation/quiz with a score of 80% or higher. The link for the evaluation/quiz will be sent to attendees within two weeks of completing the final webinar. Registrants will need a desktop, personal computer or tablet with internet access to attend the class and to take the evaluation and quiz.
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This 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.
Paid registrants will receive a copy of each webinar recording
For other questions, contact Debra Mayberry
Registration
Early Regular Late
Member: $399* $479* $599
Non- Member: $499* $579* $699
* Early bird Registration ends 6/30/2026*
* Regular registration ends 7/10/2026*
Location
Zoom link will be sent one day prior to each webinar
Speaker
Christine Tanner, PhD, BS, MS, FAAN
Chris Tanner is Professor Emerita at the Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing and national leader in nursing education innovation and scholarship. Dr. Tanner served as Editor-In-Chief for the Journal of Nursing Education from 1991-2012. She has published scores of books and journal articles, as well as presented numerous workshops, lectures and keynote addresses both in the US and internationally. Her program of research, spanning five decades, focused on the on development of expertise in clinical judgment and the impact of different education models on the development of skill in clinical judgment. Her most recent book Expertise in Nursing Practice: Caring, Clinical Judgment & Ethics was co-authored with Patricia Benner and Catherine Chesla and won the AJN Book of the year in 1996 and 2009. Her classic article, How Nurses Think: A Research Based Model of Clinical Judgment, published in 2006 continues to be one of the most cited articles in nursing education; the Tanner CJ model has been adopted in schools of nursing and nurse-residency programs nationally. With Dr. Kyriakidis, she has updated the Tanner model, explicating how nurses improve their clinical reasoning and strategies for coaching toward improvement, using a new assessment rubric to guide development. Dr. Tanner was also one of the leads in the development of the innovative Oregon Consortium for Nursing Education competency-based curriculum and the adoption of research-based pedagogies.