Innovative Teaching Strategies in Nursing and Related Health Professions

Description

Innovative Teaching Strategies in Nursing and Related Health Professions, Sixth Edition is focused on providing in-depth coverage around teaching, learning and evaluation strategies for Nurse Educators and health professionals. The text addresses different styles of learning, diversity in the classroom and critical thinking. Creative and innovative strategies and techniques are woven throughout the text with an emphasis on the importance of simulation in the classroom.

The authors bring key concepts to life by including specific examples and suggestions for how to implement teaching strategies, how to identify types of learners as well as how to predict potential issues or challenges with each strategy. The Sixth Edition addresses specific teaching-learning strategies for traditional classroom settings, the clinical arena, and through the use of technology for both web-based and virtual simulation. The new edition focuses on the strategy behind the use of technology to help the students understand how it helps to promote learning and engagement.

Innovative Teaching Strategies in Nursing and Related Health Professions, Sixth Edition is appropriate for all graduate level courses for health professions educators. A unique quality of this text is that it can be used in any health professions program other than nursing. No other health professions education text acknowledges fields other than nursing. This text is widely used by students who practice and teach in a variety of health professions and is viewed as an integral resource for their professional development.

New to this Edition:

• Clinical Reasoning
• Research and teaching the strategies of searching written by a Research Librarian
• Innovation of new teaching methods and technologies
• Emphasis on simulation
• Extensive revision of Concept Mapping chapter along with information on how to grade a student’s map
• Teaching preparation and the use of resources
• Synchronous Learning

Table of Contents

Part I Foundational Approaches to Teaching and Learning
Chapter 1 Effective Learning: What Teachers Need to Know
Chapter 2 Diversity in the Classroom
Chapter 3 Strategies for Innovation
Chapter 4 Teaching Preparation: Use of Resources
Chapter 5 Clinical Reasoning in Nursing Education
Chapter 6 The Teaching-Learning Experience from a Generational Perspective
Chapter 7 Esthetic Action: Creativity as a Collaborative Process
Chapter 8 Lighten Up Your Classroom
Part II Teaching in Structured Settings
Chapter 9 Lecture is not a Four Letter Word
Chapter 10 Problem Based Learning
Chapter 11 Debate as a Teaching Strategy
Part III Simulation and Imagination
Chapter 12 Games Amplify Motivation in Education
Chapter 13 Role Play
Chapter 14 High Fidelity Patient Simulation
Chapter 15 The Nursing Skills Laboratory
Chapter 16 Innovation in Facilitating Learning using Simulation
Chapter 17 Interprofessional Education: Communication Skills Labs
Part IV Educational Use of Technology
Chapter 18 Using Multimedia in the Classroom
Chapter 19 Using Multimedia in the Classroom
Chapter 20 Synchronous Learning: Bringing Everyone Together
Chapter 21 Web 2.0
Chapter 22 Blended Learning
Part V Teaching in Unstructured Settings
Chapter 23 Philosophical Approaches to Clinical Instruction
Chapter 24 Crafting the Clinical Experience: A Toolbox for Health Care Professionals
Chapter 25 Concept Mapping
Chapter 26 The Preceptored Clinical Experience
Chapter 27 Student Learning in a Faculty-Student Practice Clinic
Chapter 28 Service Learning
Chapter 29 Study Abroad as a Strategy for Nursing Education – A Case Study
Part VI Evaluation
Chapter 30 Programmatic Evaluation
Chapter 31 Assessment of Learning & Evaluation Strategies
Chapter 32 Student Evaluation of Teaching
Chapter 33 The Clinical Pathway: A Tool to Evaluate Clinical Learning
Chapter 34 Evaluation of Teaching Resources