Clinical Teaching Strategies in Nursing, Fifth Edition

This highly acclaimed text provides a comprehensive framework for planning, guiding, and evaluating learning activities for undergraduate and graduate nursing students in a wide variety of clinical settings. The fifth edition updates this unequalled source of essential information for all faculty members―full time, part time, adjunct, and preceptors―responsible for clinical teaching. It encompasses current trends in health care and nursing education with expanded content on ways to maximize the clinical learning experiences of nursing students, use new technologies in clinical teaching, teach and evaluate student performance, and address ethical and legal issues in clinical teaching.

New content covers topics such as establishing and using dedicated education units, integrating simulation with clinical education, using new technologies for clinical learning, teaching and evaluating performance in distance education, promoting interprofessional education in clinical settings, integrating Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) in clinical courses, using standardized patients, and developing partnerships with clinical sites. Special features include guidelines for developing clinical sites, planning learning activities and assignments, observing and evaluating students in clinical practice, and using preceptors. With an arsenal of practical and creative tools to help both experienced and novice nurse educators, the text is also a valuable resource for individuals preparing to take the Certified Nurse Educator exam.

NEW TO THE FIFTH EDITION:

• Updated with current trends in health care and nursing education
• New chapter on interprofessional education and clinical teaching from a noted expert
• Expanded content on maximizing the clinical learning experiences of nursing students
• Clinical teaching and evaluating students at a distance
• Use of social media and new technologies for clinical teaching
• Ethical and legal issues in clinical teaching
• New content on using dedicated education units
• Developing partnerships with clinical staff and sites
• Challenges of student access to electronic health records and electronic documentation of care
• Strategies to promote student learning about QSEN
• Use of simulations and integration of simulation with clinical education
• Latest revisions of the CNE test plan
• Recommendations for service learning and international clinical learning sites

KEY FEATURES:

• Delivers a scholarly, in-depth examination of current trends and issues in clinical education
• Provides evidence-based methods for clinical teaching in nursing education
• Includes practical exhibits illustrating best practices in clinical teaching and evaluation
• Highlights content in each chapter related to CNE exam blueprint
• Offers a vast toolkit for teaching and learning including Instructor’s Manual and PowerPoint presentations

Marilyn H. Oermann, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, is the Thelma M. Ingles Professor of Nursing at Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, North Carolina. She is the author or coauthor of 35 books and many articles on teaching in nursing, evaluation, and studies of the nursing literature. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Nurse Educator. Dr. Oermann received the National League for Nursing (NLN) Award for Excellence in Nursing Education Research, the Sigma Theta Tau International Elizabeth Russell Belford Award for Excellence in Education, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Excellence Award, the Margaret Comerford Freda Award for Editorial Leadership in Nursing from the International Academy of Nursing Editors, and the NLN President’s Award. The NLN established an award in her honor, the Marilyn H. Oermann Award for Distinguished Research in Nursing Education, to recognize an individual or team who has generated an evidentiary base for the science of nursing education.  

Teresa Shellenbarger, PhD, RN, CNE, CNEcl, ANEF, is executive director, National League for Nursing Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation. She is a Distinguished University Professor Emerita and was previously the founding Doctoral Nursing Program Coordinator, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania. During her 30 years of classroom and clinical teaching, she has established a reputation as an expert educator, mentor, and respected leader in academia. She was an invited member of the National League for Nursing (NLN) workgroup that developed the Academic Clinical Nurse Educator competencies that serve as the basis for the NLN clinical nurse educator certification exam. Dr. Shellenbarger recently published two books, Clinical Nurse Educator Competencies: Creating an Evidence-Based Practice for Academic Clinical Nurse Educators and Academic Clinical Nurse Educator Review. Dr. Shellenbarger frequently presents and publishes on topics related to innovative teaching, faculty role development, clinical teaching, and technology in nursing education. 

Kathleen B. Gaberson, PhD, RN, CNOR, CNE, ANEF, is Professor of Nursing by Courtesy at Duquesne University, and owner of and principal nursing education consultant for OWK Consulting, both in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has over 40 years of teaching and administrative experience in graduate and undergraduate nursing programs. She is co-author of 13 nursing education books and author or co-author of numerous articles on nursing education topics. Dr. Gaberson has received many teaching awards, and she presents and consults extensively on assessment and evaluation, clinical teaching, and research instrument development.