From Nurse to Educator: Creating Effective Learning Experiences for Adults - Long-Term Care Management Series

At last-an effective teaching manual to help nurse educators!

From Nurse to Educator: Creating Effective Learning Experiences for Adults by Lyla Berry, EdD, MA, RN highlights the skills nurses need in order to be effective educators.

Teaching is an integral part of the nursing practice. Nursing professionals are involved on a daily basis teaching patient/client/residents, peers, or employees in a variety of healthcare settings.

Nursing professionals involved with teaching need information concerning adult teaching and learning principles, as well as how to use those principles in planning, implementing, and presenting effective adult-learning experiences.
This text was specifically developed to assist the licensed nursing professional directly involved in the role of adult teaching in all healthcare facility or nursing school settings. This book gives nurse educators the simple teaching tools needed to better prepare a new generation of caregivers

This book is for nurses who know how to provide quality care but perhaps never had the opportunity to learn the basic teaching principles of adult education.Historically we have used non-dynamic teaching techniques and expected dynamic results. Sometimes we are so busy with teaching that we forget it is all about learning. Providing information without the tools on how to succeed only promotes failure. We need to fan the flame of learning, not smother the fire.This book will give you the simple teaching tools you need to better prepare a new generation of caregivers.You can master it!