Main description:

Now in its sixth edition, this highly acclaimed core text for nurse educators continues to be the only resource to address clinical teaching in all settings. Delivering comprehensive and detailed information on planning, guiding, and evaluating learning activities for prelicensure and graduate nursing students, the sixth edition is distinguished by its focus on clinical teaching in a wide range of settings including teaching in online environments. The book prepares graduate students, preceptors, adjunct faculty members, and clinicians for their role as clinical nurse educators. Integrating theory and practical content, the text is updated with current information relevant to the future of nursing, student and faculty diversity, how to teach clinical reasoning and judgment to nursing students, models of clinical education in different teaching environments, innovative technologies, and clinical evaluation.Each chapter offers information related to preparing for the CNEcl and CNE exams and practical exhibits illustrating teaching methods and guidelines for clinical teaching and evaluation. Content is further enhanced by high-quality instructor resources, including a course syllabus, a complete online course, and chapter-based PowerPoint presentations. Readers will be rewarded with clinical teaching strategies that are effective and practical in a rapidly changing healthcare environment.

New to the Sixth Edition:

NEW chapter: Teaching and Evaluating Student Learning in Online Nursing Programs
Changes in online teaching resulting from the coronavirus pandemic
Teaching clinical reasoning and judgment to undergraduate students
New information for preceptors, adjunct faculty members, and clinicians transitioning to a clinical teaching role
Models of clinical education updated to reflect different teaching environments
Expansion of virtual simulation content
New technology including simulated EHR, telepresence, telehealth, and other tech approaches
Models of clinical education in different teaching environments
Content related to CNEcl and CNE exams in each chapter

Key Features:

Serves as a gold-standard reference for clinical nurse educators teaching at all levels
Emphasizes the importance of cognitive, psychomotor, and affective outcomes that guide clinical teaching and evaluation
Provides examples of clinical learning opportunities in specialized settings
Offers scholarly, in-depth discussion of current trends and issues in clinical education
Includes practical exhibits illustrating clinical teaching methods
Instructor resources include a course syllabus, a complete online course, and PowerPoint slides

Contents:

Contributors to Previous Editions
Contributors to the Sixth Edition
Preface
SECTION I: FOUNDATIONS OF CLINICAL TEACHING
Chapter 1: Contextual Factors Affecting Clinical Teaching
Chapter 2: Outcomes of Clinical Teaching
Chapter 3: Developing Clinical Learning Sites: Prelicensure through Advanced Practice
Chapter 4: Preparing for Clinical Learning Activities
Chapter 5: Process and Models of Clinical Teaching
Chapter 6: Ethical and Legal Issues in Clinical Teaching
SECTION II: STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVE CLINICAL TEACHING
Chapter 7: Clinical Teaching Methods and Crafting Clinical Learning Assignments
Chapter 8: Cases for Clinical Learning
Chapter 9: Clinical Simulation
Katie Anne Haerling
Chapter 10: Pedagogical Technologies in Clinical Education
Meigan Robb
Chapter 11: Preceptors as Clinical Teachers
SECTION III: EVALUATION STRATEGIES IN CLINICAL TEACHING
Chapter 12: Clinical Evaluation and Grading
Chapter 13: Clinical Teaching at a Distance
Christine Colella
Appendix A: Evaluation Form for Rating Presentations in Conferences
Appendix B: Resources for Nurse Educators
Appendix C: Sample Clinical Evaluation Tools
Appendix D: Sample Distance Learning Affiliation Agreement
Index