This textbook presents a comprehensive framework for planning, guiding, and evaluating learning activities for undergraduate and graduate nursing students in clinical settings. Recognising that clinical settings require different approaches to teaching, the contributors present tools - working models, learning assignments and activities, simulations, the use of Grand Rounds for clinical educations, and pointers on ethical and legal issues - to help educators meet the challenges of this complex environment. This new edition presents the newest clinical teaching strategies to ensure that it covers important new content, including culturally-inclusive strategies, current technology, NLN's Core Competencies, students with disabilities, delegation, self-directed learning, adapting to innovative clinical sites, virtual clinical worlds, and more.
Kathleen B. Gaberson, PhD, RN, CNOR, CNE, ANEF, is a Nursing Education Consultant, OWK Consulting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has over 35 years of teaching and administrative experience in graduate and undergraduate nursing programs and has presented, written, and consulted extensively on evaluation and teaching in nursing education and writing for publication. She is Research Section Editor of the AORN Journal.||
Marilyn H. Oermann, PhD, RN, FAAN, is a Professor in the College of Nursing at Wayne State University. She is the author many articles on clinical teaching, clinical evaluation, and teaching strategies in nursing education as well as seven books. She is the Editor of the Annual Review of Nursing Education (with Kathleen T. Heinrich, all published by Springer), the fifth volume of which was published in November 2006; and the Journal of Nursing Care Quality. She is also co-author of Evaluation and Testing in Nursing Education (Springer, 2005), with Kathleen B. Gaberson, now in its second edition. Dr. Oermann lectures widely on teaching and evaluation in nursing.