Teaching in Nursing: A Guide for Faculty

by Diane M. Billings, Judith A. Halstead

The perfect all-in-one guide for future nurse educators! The award-winning Teaching in A Guide for Faculty, 6th Edition prepares you for the day-to-day challenges of teaching future nurses for practice in today's rapidly evolving healthcare system. This comprehensive resource is the only one of its kind to cover all four components of nursing teaching and learning, curriculum, evaluation, and technology-empowered learning. You’ll benefit from the expert guidance on such key issues as curriculum and test development, diverse learning styles, the redesign of healthcare systems, and advances in technology and information. Plus, the 6th edition includes a unique new chapter on Global Health and Curricular Experiences along with updated information on technology-empowered learning, the flipped classroom, interprofessional education, interprofessional collaborative practice, and much more.

Comprehensively addresses all four components of nursing education including teaching and learning, curriculum, evaluation, and technology-empowered learning. Coverage of concept-based curricula includes strategies on how to approach and implement concept-based instruction. Pedagogical aids include Evidence-Based Teaching boxes, covering such issues as how to do evidence-based teaching; applications of evidence-based teaching; implications for faculty development, administration, and the institution; and how to use the open-ended application questions at the end of each chapter for faculty-guided discussion. Strategies to promote critical thinking and active learning are incorporated throughout the text, highlighting various evaluation techniques, lesson planning insights, and tips for developing examinations. Guidance on teaching in diverse settings addresses such topics as the models of clinical teaching, teaching in interdisciplinary settings, how to evaluate students in the clinical setting, and how to adapt teaching for community-based practice. Strong emphasis on teaching clinical judgment, new models of clinical education, and responding to needs for creating inclusive multicultural teaching-learning environments. NEW! Updated content throughout reflects the latest evidence-based guidelines for best practices in teaching and learning. NEW! UNIQUE chapter on Global Health and Curricular Experiences focuses on internationalization of the nursing curriculum with an emphasis on leading international learning experiences; policies, procedures, and guidelines for overseas study and global and health competencies for health professions programs. NEW! Enhanced pedagogy includes additional illustrations, tables, and boxes. NEW! Expanded interprofessional education chapter, provides you with strategies for effective teaching in an interprofessional healthcare environment.

Genres: Nursing, School

605 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 15, 1998

Reviews

[Aj · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read the newer edition for my MSN program. Covers everything you will need for CNE exam. Good resource book to keep on the shelf.

[Khuthele]

Want to read

[Kirsten LaBrasca]

This counts towards my yearly reading goal right? 😭

[Tama · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book to prepare for Certified Nurse Eduacator Exam. Editing could be improved. Chapters repeated A LOT of information. Each chapter was well written, but it felt like no one had read through the entire book. Could probably be decreased in size by 1/3.

[Sarah Sawyer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great resource for anyone studying to become a nurse educator

[Megan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was absolutely one of the most helpful textbooks during my masters program in nursing education.

[Regina · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Nursing Educators bible. My third edition

[Michaela Lewis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent resource to incorporate during CNE prep.

[Rachel Nicole Wagner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Second time reading this and I love it every time. Great textbook for my field.

~xo,
Rach