Scaffolding Case Studies: Advancing Competency-Based Nurse Practitioner Education

29/10/2025 19 min
Scaffolding Case Studies: Advancing Competency-Based Nurse Practitioner Education

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Scaffolding is the technique of providing support and gradually withdrawing support until an individual can perform a task independently. This approach is inspired by Vygotsky's theory of the Zone of Proximal Development. Dr. Ainslie, Dr. Hebert, and Dr. Luke discuss the use of the scaffolding model and how that method can be used for scaling complexity within Nurse Practitioner (NP) curricula.  Learn more about this strategy in their article in Nurse Educator.

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