Teaching in Nursing: A Guide for Faculty (6th Edition)

Description

The perfect all-in-one guide for future nurse educators! The award-winning Teaching in Nursing: A Guide for Faculty, 6^th 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 6^th 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.

New to this Edition

• NEW! Updated content throughout reflects the latest evidence-based guidelines for best practices in teaching and learning.
• NEW! UNIQUE chapter on Global Health and Curricular Experiences focuses on internationalization of the nursing curriculum with an emphasis on leading international learning experiences; policies, procedures, and guidelines for overseas study and global and health competencies for health professions programs.
• NEW! Enhanced pedagogy includes additional illustrations, tables, and boxes.
• NEW! Expanded interprofessional education chapter, provides you with strategies for effective teaching in an interprofessional healthcare environment.

Table of Contents

1. 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
2. UNIT II: Curriculum as a Process 
   1. Forces and Issues Influencing Curriculum Development
   2. An Introduction to Curriculum Development
   3. Philosophical Foundations of the Curriculum
   4. Curriculum Models for Prelicensure Programs
   5. Curriculum Models for Graduate Programs
   6. Designing Courses and Learning Experiences
   7. Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice
   8. Service Learning: Developing Values, Cultural Competence, Global Awareness, and Social Responsibility
   9. Global Health and Curricular Experiences New
3. UNIT III: Teaching and Learning 
   1. Theoretical Foundations of Teaching and Learning
   2. Managing Student Incivility and Misconduct in the Learning Environment
   3. Strategies to Promote Student Engagement and Active Learning
   4. Multicultural Education in Nursing
   5. Teaching in the Clinical Setting
4. UNIT IV: Technology-Empowered Learning 
   1. Teaching and Learning Using Simulations
   2. The Connected Classroom: Using Digital Technology to Promote Learning
   3. Teaching and Learning at a Distance
   4. Teaching and Learning in Online Learning Communities
5. UNIT V: Evaluation 
   1. Introduction to the Evaluation Process
   2. Strategies for Evaluating Learning Outcomes
   3. Developing and Using Classroom Tests
   4. Clinical Performance Evaluation
   5. Systematic Program Evaluation
   6. The Accreditation Process
   7. Index

Authors Biography

Diane M. Billings, EdD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus, Indiana University School of Nursing, Indianapolis, Indiana and

Judith A. Halstead, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, Executive Director, Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation, National League for Nursing, Washington, DC; Professor Emeritus, Indiana University School of Nursing, Indianapolis, Indiana