Teaching in Nursing: A Guide for Faculty

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Author: Diane M. Billings

ISBN-10: 1416040846

ISBN-13: 9781416040842

Category: General & Miscellaneous - Nursing

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This complete faculty guide covers the four major components of the educator role — teaching, curriculum, information technology, and evaluation of students and programs — with comprehensive, contemporary guidelines to help you develop the educator competencies needed to ensure your success in today’s complex health care and academic environments. This respected title is also one of the National League for Nursing’s recommended resources for nurses preparing to take the Certified Nurse Educator examination.• Nationally recognized contributing authors share their expertise to bring you the best and most comprehensive information available. • Presents innovative models of clinical teaching that show you how to effectively teach in an interdisciplinary setting, how to evaluate students in the clinical setting, and how to adapt your teaching for community-based practice.• Strategies to promote critical thinking and active learning, including evaluation techniques, lesson planning, and constructing examinations, help you ensure students can apply and synthesize nursing content to make clinical decisions.• Web links with numerous resources related to each chapter topic, available through the Evolve website, provide even more learning opportunities.• Managing the Learning Environment chapter addresses classroom management and control, motivating and engaging students, and handling disruptive or problem students. • Multicultural Education chapter provides strategies for effectively teaching and communicating with a culturally diverse student population. • An entire chapter on simulations presents the development, implementation, and evaluation of simulations so you can successfully integrate this teaching method into your course. • Reflecting on the Evidence feature at the end of each chapter provides questions that are perfect for classroom and online discussion. Doody Review Services Reviewer:Mary Allen Carey, PhD(University of Oklahoma College of Nursing)Description:This is an update of a comprehensive faculty guide to the four major components of the educator role.Purpose:The book covers the educator role components of teaching, curriculum, information technology, and evaluation of students and programs. Audience:Students preparing for teaching in the field of nursing and professional nursing educators are the intended audience. The book has been recommended by the National League for Nursing as a resource for nurses preparing to take the Certified Nurse Educator Examination. Features:The book is divided into five units: faculty and students; curriculum; teaching and learning; teaching, learning, and information resources; and evaluation. Each unit is well written by experts in the field in an organized narrative.Assessment:This high quality book is a valuable addition to the libraries of the nursing educators.

1Teaching in nursing : the faculty role32The diverse learning needs of students213The academic performance of students : legal and ethical issues414Teaching students with disabilities675Curriculum development : an overview876Forces and issues influencing curriculum development1097Philosophical foundations of the curriculum1258Curriculum designs1459Developing curriculum : frameworks, outcomes, and competencies16710Selecting learning experiences to achieve curriculum outcomes18711Service learning : developing values and social responsibility21312From teaching to learning : theoretical foundations23113Strategies to promote critical thinking and active learning28314Improving teaching and learning : classroom assessment techniques31715Teaching in the clinical setting32516The learning resource center34917Using media, multimedia, and technology-rich learning environments37718Teaching and learning at a distance39719Teaching and learning in online learning communities42320The evaluation process : an overview44321Strategies for evaluating learning outcomes46522Developing and using classroom tests49323Clinical performance evaluation52124Educational program evaluation543