Ann Haffer Professor of Nursing California State University, Sacramento 6000 J Street Sacramento CA 95819-6104 916 278 4663 E-mail hafferag@csus.edu

Professional Degrees

• Ed.D. Curriculum and Instruction University of San Francisco
         Dissertation: Beginning Nurses Diagnostic Reasoning.
• M.S. Nursing, Ohio State University
• B.S. Nursing Ohio State University

Courses

• NURS 143 Leadership and Management in Nursing
• NURS 155 Senior Forum
• NURS 156 Selected Senior Practicum
• NURS 169 Clinical Reasoning in Health Care Sciences
• NURS 214 B Educational Program Development in Nursing
• NURS 214 C Educational Program Development in Nursing  II
• NURS 294 C Practicum for Educational Program Development in

• Research with Dr Bonnie Raingruber, Using Clinical Narratives to Facilitate the Critical Thinking and Reasoning Skill Development of Critical Care Nurses.
• Continuing research in clinical reasoning skill development.

Publications

• Discovering Confidence in Critical Thinking and Clinical Reasoning Develop ment. Article published in Journal of Nursing Education,(37)2, 1998.
• Ullrich, S. & Haffer, A. (2001) Preceptor: A Nurse's guide to Mentoring. Philadelphia: F.A. Davis.
• Raingruber, B. & Haffer, A. (2001),  Using Your Head to Land On Your Feet: A Beginning Nurse's Guide to Critical Thinking. A narrative pedagogical approach is used in workbook exercises which focus on dealing with reasoning problems in clinical practice.
• Ostiguy, N. and Haffer, A. (2001).  "Assessing Differences in Instructional Methods: Uncovering How Students Learn Best," Journal of College Science Teaching 30(6), 370-374.
• Ostiguy, N. and Haffer, A. (2003). "Assessing Differences in Instructional Methods: Uncovering How Students Learn Best," In:  From Email to Earthquakes: On Teaching and Learning with Technology in the California State University.

Last updated: June 2004

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