A Nuts and Bolts Approach to Teaching Nursing, Fourth Edition Book

2011 AJN Book of the Year Winner in Nursing
Education!

Updated, revised,
and expanded, this fourth edition of a "survival manual" for new teachers offers the
most current thinking in nursing education, from practical nursing, to baccalaureate
and master's programs. It also serves as a comprehensive guide for novice educators
in classroom and clinical teaching settings. Chapters offer helpful strategies for
making clinical assignments, preparing lectures and seminars, all aspects of testing
and grading, supervision, facilitating group study, selecting textbooks, guiding
independent study, and helping students improve their writing skills.

This fourth edition also features best practices and lessons learned from
partnerships between university and clinical settings, and contains new strategies
for conducting online teaching, including the use of technology. Specific indicators
help educators identify appropriate lessons for different course levels. The guide
additionally provides links to online resources in each chapter, including some with
revised templates for checklists and rubrics.

Key Features

• Distills best practices and lessons
  learned from academic and clinical world partnerships
• Serves as a quick
  refresher for the experienced educator reentering a classroom or clinical teaching
  assignment
• Addresses new cross-disciplinary "team" approach to assessment
  and intervention
• Features links to online resources in each chapter,
  including revised templates for checklist and rubrics along with a digital adjunct
  for educator use
• Authored by noted national and international experts in
  nursing education