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Teaching in Nursing

A Guide for Faculty

  • 6th Edition - May 3, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Diane M. Billings, Judith A. Halstead
  • Language: English

The perfect all-in-one guide for future nurse educators! The award-winning Teaching in Nursing: A Guide for Faculty, 6th Edition prepares you for the day-to-day challenges of te… Read more

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The perfect all-in-one guide for future nurse educators! The award-winning Teaching in Nursing: A Guide for Faculty, 6th Edition prepares you for the day-to-day challenges of teaching future nurses for practice in today's rapidly evolving healthcare system. This comprehensive resource is the only one of its kind to cover all four components of nursing education: teaching and learning, curriculum, evaluation, and technology-empowered learning. You’ll benefit from the expert guidance on such key issues as curriculum and test development, diverse learning styles, the redesign of healthcare systems, and advances in technology and information. Plus, the 6th edition includes a unique new chapter on Global Health and Curricular Experiences along with updated information on technology-empowered learning, the flipped classroom, interprofessional education, interprofessional collaborative practice, and much more.

Key features

  • Comprehensively addresses all four components of nursing education
  • including teaching and learning, curriculum, evaluation, and technology-empowered learning.
  • Coverage of concept-based curricula includes strategies on how to approach and implement concept-based instruction.
  • Pedagogical aids include Evidence-Based Teaching boxes, covering such issues as how to do evidence-based teaching; applications of evidence-based teaching; implications for faculty development, administration, and the institution; and how to use the open-ended application questions at the end of each chapter for faculty-guided discussion.
  • Strategies to promote critical thinking and active learning are incorporated throughout the text, highlighting various evaluation techniques, lesson planning insights, and tips for developing examinations.
  • Guidance on teaching in diverse settings addresses such topics as the models of clinical teaching, teaching in interdisciplinary settings, how to evaluate students in the clinical setting, and how to adapt teaching for community-based practice.
  • Strong emphasis on teaching clinical judgment, new models of clinical education, and responding to needs for creating inclusive multicultural teaching-learning environments.

Table of contents

UNIT I: Faculty and Students

1. Teaching in Nursing: The Faculty Role

2. Strategies to Support Diverse Learning Needs of Students

3. The Academic Performance of Students: Legal and Ethical Issues

4. Facilitating Learning for Students with Disabilities

UNIT II: Curriculum as a Process

5. Forces and Issues Influencing Curriculum Development

6. An Introduction to Curriculum Development

7. Philosophical Foundations of the Curriculum

8. Curriculum Models for Prelicensure Programs

9. Curriculum Models for Graduate Programs

10. Designing Courses and Learning Experiences

11. Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice

12. Service Learning: Developing Values, Cultural Competence, Global Awareness, and Social Responsibility

13. Global Health and Curricular Experiences New

UNIT III: Teaching and Learning

14. Theoretical Foundations of Teaching and Learning

15. Managing Student Incivility and Misconduct in the Learning Environment

16. Strategies to Promote Student Engagement and Active Learning

17. Multicultural Education in Nursing

18. Teaching in the Clinical Setting

UNIT IV: Technology-Empowered Learning

19. Teaching and Learning Using Simulations

20. The Connected Classroom: Using Digital Technology to Promote Learning

21. Teaching and Learning at a Distance

22. Teaching and Learning in Online Learning Communities

UNIT V: Evaluation

23. Introduction to the Evaluation Process

24. Strategies for Evaluating Learning Outcomes

25. Developing and Using Classroom Tests

26. Clinical Performance Evaluation

27. Systematic Program Evaluation

28. The Accreditation Process

Index

Product details

  • Edition: 6
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 6, 2019
  • Language: English

About the authors

DB

Diane M. Billings

Affiliations and expertise
Chancellor's Professor Emeritus, Indiana University School of Nursing, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

JH

Judith A. Halstead

Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, School of Nursing, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA