All the information you need in one textbook!This all-inclusive text for Nurse Educators delivers comprehensive, evidence-based guidance on the essential components of teaching, including learning theories, teaching methods, new technologies for teaching, curriculum development, evaluation and testing, and accreditation. The text delivers the full scope of knowledge necessary for novice and experienced faculty to become competent teachers in nursing.
This third edition features new content on the transition from clinician to educator. There is also a new chapter on nursing professional development and teaching in clinical settings and updated teaching strategies for active learning, clinical judgment, and online teaching. The text is designed to help educators prepare for the certification exams.
The text also addresses varied learning styles and how to accommodate them, new developments in simulation, standardized patients, OSCEs, clinical teaching, interprofessional education, and evidence-based teaching.
New to the Third Edition:
Chapter on the transition from clinician to educator, plus expanded content throughout on becoming a nurse educator
Addresses inclusivity and developing an inclusive learning environment for people with different learning styles
Strategies to promote active learning, clinical judgment, and higher level learning, and teaching online
Updated content on simulations, the use of standardized patients, OSCEs, clinical teaching, and clinical evaluation
Chapter on accreditation of nursing programs and developing a systematic program evaluation plan
Chapter on nursing professional development and teaching in a clinical setting
Key Features:
Written by experts who seamlessly integrate evidence-based research and practical strategies
Serves as a thorough study guide for nurse educator certification exams
Covers practical teaching strategies, simulation, online education, technology, interprofessional education, clinical teaching and evaluation, and test construction
Includes case examples and other examples to support content and 'how-to' tips
Includes a high quality online course ready for an instructor's use: sample syllabus, PowerPoints, and a complete 20-module online course
Author Biography:
Marilyn H. Oermann, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, is the Thelma M. Ingles Professor of Nursing and Director of Evaluation and Educational Research at Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, North Carolina. She is an author or coauthor of 18 books and many articles on evaluation, teaching in nursing, and writing for publication as a nurse educator. She is the editor of Nurse Educator and the Journal of Nursing Care Quality and past editor of the Annual Review of Nursing Education. Dr. Oermann lectures widely on teaching and evaluation in nursing. Jennie C. De Gagne, PhD, DNP, RN-BC, CNE, ANEF, is Associate Professor, Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, NC. She has consulted with a variety of nursing schools, including in South Korea, Ghana, South Africa, and Taiwan, on nursing program development, continuing education, and/or faculty development. As an expert in educational technology, Dr. De Gagne's research focuses on promoting cybercivility among health professions students and faculty across the curriculum, policies, and guidelines. She is the author/co-author of three books including two Korean-translated nursing education textbooks, and more than 50 publications, including 35 articles in peer-reviewed journals. She has made over 50 professional presentations nationally and internationally.
Beth Cusatis Phillips, PhD, RN, CNE, is Assistant Professor, Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, NC, where she teaches in the ABSN and MSN programs. She has extensive experience in medical-surgical nursing and nursing education. Dr. Phillip's research focus is on undergraduate nursing students and their clinical decision- making abilities. She is also interested in interprofessional education and practice, new faculty and clinical instructor development and preparation, and the use of virtual environments in nursing education.
