Presidentas Message

President’sMessage Patricia Yoder-Wise The Power of Yet

seldom have the opportunity to watch movies, but when I find one I now, so far. The idea of so far conveys hope. Think what that mes- like, I often watch it more than once, to the point that I know some sage can do for learners who don’t get something right away. It is I of the lines. My first such experience was probably the original about yet. Many of us get second chances in all sorts of ways. Why black-and-white version of Miracleon34thStreet. Because it used not in learning? And yes, we do give second chances in learning to play every year on one of the cable channels, it was easy to watch but often without the inspiration and power of the word yet. it over and over. The line “put them here” (said by the judge who Think of the numerous powerful messages of hope we can give: wants evidence about the US Postal Service’s recognition of Kris We haven’t found a cure for cancer — yet. We can’talwayscontrol Kringle as Santa Claus) has been used in our family for years — what our bodies might do — yet. Or what our minds might do — including the hand gesture marking the place something is to be put. yet.Wedon’t always get the positions we hope for — yet. Students When I read Dr. Debra Hanna’s article in the July/August issue of don’t always get the grades they hope for — yet. Nursing Education Perspectives (Hanna, 2019), I recalled how impor- The meaning of the word yet gives us hope that we will cure can- tant films can be in helping us learn about nursing or a concept we cer, that we can always be in control of ourselves, that we can secure need to consider. Some movies, as Hanna points out, allow us to the positions we want, and that students can get great grades. Yet learn about the pedagogy of contextualization (Benner, Sutphen, provides us with the hope for tomorrow that we will be a better soci- Leonard, & Day, 2010). This learning is focused on the clues we pick ety, that we will have more nurses wanting to be educators, and that up in various situations. Those details can provide a context for what we will always be able to say and do the right things for our students is said or happening. and patients. We just aren’tthere— yet. With that information in mind, let me share with you how I see the power of yet. The movie, The Blind Side, is the story of the football player Michael Oher (played by Quinton Aaron). To make a long story short, he is adopted by Sean (played by Tim McGraw) and Leigh Anne (played by Sandra Bullock) Tuohy. Michael is black and, in es- sence, homeless. The Tuohys are a well-to-do family of four and white. At one point, Leigh Anne learns that Michael has a great football career ahead of him if he can raise his grade point average to a sufficient level to get into college. To achieve that goal, Miss Sue (played by Kathy Bates) arrives to tutor Michael. One evening at REFERENCES home, Miss Sue is working with Michael, helping him to answer a Benner, P., Sutphen, M., Leonard, V., & Day, L. (2010). Educating nurses: A call for math question correctly. As most of us do when we don’tgetsome- radical transformation. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. thing right away, Michael says he doesn’t understand. Miss Sue re- Hanna, D. R. (2019). Using motion picture films to teach nursing theory in graduate plies: “Yet. You don’t understand it yet!” nursing education. Nursing Education Perspectives, 40(4), 259-260. doi:10. 1097/01.NEP.0000000000000355 ’ Let s think about that for a moment. The second definition pro- Merriam Webster Dictionary. (2019). Yet. Retrieved from https://www.merriam- vided for yet by the Merriam Webster Dictionary (2019) is up to webster.com/dictionary/yet

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