Fast Facts for the Clinical Nursing Instructor: Clinical Teaching in a Nutshell

by Susan Stabler-Haas MSN, RN, PMHCNS-BC, Eden Zabat Kan PhD, RN

Overview

"[O]ffers advice on everything from organizing the clinical experience to understanding the legal issues of clinical education....The authors have 32 years of combined teaching experience and are able to offer quality, real life, clear instructions and advice in an easy-to-read book that easily slips into a lab coat pocket for a ready reference. This is a must have for the new clinical instructor as well as a concise reference for those who have been in the trenches but could use some streamlining to their teaching methods."

--Nursing Education Perspectives
The Research Journal of the National League for Nursing

The education of nursing students requires a balance between clinical application and theoretical knowledge-or the science and art of nursing. This practical, authoritative book contains comprehensive coverage of everything clinical instructors need to know in order to optimize the clinical experience for their students.

Readers will learn to:

• Organize the clinical experience
• Develop relationships with the staff in the clinical facilities
• Make clinical assignments
• Plan orientation days
• Develop clinical rotations and evaluations
• Understand the legal issues of clinical education

Concise and comprehensive, this book is formatted to present small but pertinent pieces of information, summarized in boxes representing the "Fast Facts in a Nutshell." User-friendly and highly accessible, Fast Facts serves as an invaluable resource for nurses who are beginning their professional teaching careers. It is also useful to seasoned faculty seeking additional resources to improve the clinical experience for their students. This book contains pragmatic, "real-life" information on the clinical teaching process.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826118882
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	09/29/2008
Series:	Fast Facts
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Susan Stabler-Haas, PMHCNS-BC, RN is a clinical nursing instructor at Villanova University, PA.

Eden Zabat Kan, PhD, RN, is Assistant Professor, Nursing Department, Health Sciences Division, The College of Southern Maryland, where she is responsible for didactic and clinical instruction for first semester students.

Table of Contents

"ForewordPreface
Acknowledgments
PART IAPPRECIATING YOUR NEW IDENTITY: FROM CAREGIVER TO EDUCATOR
Chapter 1Developing a New Identity as a Clinical Nursing Instructor
Chapter 2Understand the Rules: What Every Nursing Instructor Needs to Know about the Nursing Program's Policies
PART IIYOUR SUCCESS DEPENDS ON ""YOU"": PREPARING FOR YOUR CLINICAL TEACHING ASSIGNMENT
Chapter 3You Are a Guest, So Act Like One
Chapter 4Organize the Semester - Have a Plan
Chapter 5Confidentiality and Patient Privacy
PART IIIGETTING TO KNOW YOUR NURSING STUDENTS: WHO ARE THE BEST, AND WHO ARE THE REST?
Chapter 6The High Fliers: How to Screen for Higher Achieving Students
Chapter 7The Not-So-High Fliers: How to Screen for Potential ""Problem Students""
PART IVTHE PERFORMANCE APPRAISALS: CLINICAL EVALUATIONS
Chapter 8Making the Most Out of Student Self-Evaluation
Chapter 9The DOs and DON'Ts of Student Documentation
Chapter 10Early Warning System
Chapter 11Graded Clinical vs. Pass/Fail Evaluations
PART VCOMMUNICATION AT CLINICAL CONFERENCES
Chapter 12Preconferences
Chapter 13Postconferences
PART VITHE ART OF MAKING A CLINICAL ASSIGNMENT
Chapter 14Unplanned Events
Chapter 15Alternative Assignments
PART VIICOMPETENCIES NOT MET
Chapter 16Punctuality and Absences
Chapter 17Unsafe Practice
Chapter 18What Your Students Will Expect from You
Chapter 19Conclusion
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
References
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