Members of the RTS team spent a day in Madison, WI with lead researcher of Guided Participation (GP) Dr. Karen Pridham. Long-time colleagues and friends, Dr. Pridham and RTS Director Emerita Dr. Rana Limbo met in the early 1990s at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Pridham served as Limbo’s advisor while she completed her PhD in nursing. It was during that time that the two, together with others, published their first article on GP. Since, they have collaborated on many related publications. This work, headed by Dr. Pridham, has led to GP being named a middle-range theory and being solidified as a clinical practice. As those of you who have completed our training know, GP is central to RTS education and practice.
During the meeting, the group had lunch and discussed the latest in GP education at the UW-Madison School of Nursing as well as new opportunities to apply GP to bereavement practice through RTS programming.
For more on the history of Guided Participation and Drs. Limbo and Pridham’s early years working together, see A Middle-Range Theory of Teaching and Learning | ANS: Advances in Nursing Science Blog.