Teaching in Nursing: A Guide for Faculty

By Diane M. Billings and Judith A. Halstead

Book Overview

560 pagesNationally 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.li>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.li>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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416040846
• ISBN13: 9781416040842
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent for new teachers who want to succeed.

This book has been a great investment for my new teaching career. The "Guide" to success and one to look back to when needing answers with challenging issues relating to teaching. Great book, I am keeping this one.

Nursing Education Textbook

This textbook provides the nurse educator with a comprehensive overview of education principles as they relate to teaching nursing. Teaching strategies for learning activities as well as the advantages and disadvantages add to the usefulness of this book. This third edition includes an excellent view of teaching in online classrooms.

nursing faculty

Absolutely the best book to prep for CNE exam and very helpful for nursing educators.

Wonderful, concise teaching resource.

Teaching in Nursing: A Guide for Faculty by Diane Billings and Judith Halstead is a concise comprehensive easy to read resource on being a nurse educator. I am a graduate student pursuing my MSN/Ed. As a student, I found this book to be very relevant, well cited, and easy to navigate. I loved that it came in soft cover. I highly recommend this book.

Easy to read

I am using this book for a masters class in education for my CNS. I enjoyed reading it. It is very easy to read and covers a vast amount of information needed for a nurse to get started in her her teaching career.