Becoming a Nurse Educator: Dialogue for an Engaging Career / Edition 1

by CeCelia R. Zorn

Overview

Becoming a Nurse Educator: Dialogue for an Engaging Career is a practical guide developed to help new and emerging nurse educators in their career development. Written in a straight-forward manner, it presents teaching experiences mixed with theoretical discussion and specific teaching strategies to assist new nursing educators in finding meaning in their career. This essential guide contains popular and professional literature, nurse educator experiences, stories, quotes, and discussion questions.
Becoming a Nurse Educator: Dialogue for an Engaging Career is a must-have resource for any nursing educator and nursing education students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763771119
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	09/11/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Table of Contents

Unit 1 Knowing the Self as Teacher
Chapter 1 Then and Now: A Call to Pause
Chapter 2 Honoring the Present in the Best and Worst Year
Chapter 3 “As If”: More of That First Year
Chapter 4 Scott’s Spirit on Lassen Peak: Finding the Spirit That Sustains You
Chapter 5 The Rhythm of Education: Dr. Harriet Werley, Thank You for Teaching Me
Unit 2 Relationships with Students
Chapter 6 How Can the Students Help Us Teach?
Chapter 7 Presence with Students: Posing Interest, Not Merely Paying Attention
Unit 3 Teaching Practices That I Am Practicing
Chapter 8 Clinical Teaching Is Where the Magic Lies
Chapter 9 The Novel: “Listen Her and She Will Show Us Everything”
Chapter 10 The Students Co-Construct the Classroom
Chapter 11 Creative Projects: “Could You Please Tell Us What You’re Looking For?”
Unit 4 Nursing Education as Liberal Education
Chapter 12 Teaching Life, Not Teaching Work

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Melissa Banks-Sockriter, MSN (Delaware Technical & Community College)
Description: This book is designed to help new faculty members embrace nursing education as a liberal education, and shift away from a professional studies emphasis.
Purpose: It is intended to help new nursing faculty prepare for the teaching life.
Audience: This book is good for new educators just starting out, or seasoned faculty searching for meaning in their teaching.
Features: Four units cover a variety of areas in nursing education, starting with "Knowing the Self as Teacher," which encourages new faculty members to reflect on the pertinent questions that need to be asked to help them become the best possible educators. The third unit, "Teaching Practices That I Am Practicing," provides examples, bridging classroom theory and clinical practice. As a nurse educator, I enjoyed this unit the most, as there is nothing more gratifying than to see students apply the knowledge they have gained in a classroom or laboratory to an actual patient in the clinical environment. The clinical setting is where I find the most exciting and memorable education takes place. There is an especially interesting piece on "Helping Students Learn to Think," which uses as an example thinking out loud with students as they are problem solving. Chapters also include questions to ponder that push new nursing educators to critically think about their own teaching strategies.
Assessment: As a new nurse educator, I found this book to be helpful, educational, and insightful. It helped me evaluate my teaching and see how I can make changes to improve what my students learn in the classroom, laboratory, and clinical settings. As nurses, we are taught how to take care of patients, not necessarily how to make the transition to the classroom as teachers. This book is a resource that I would recommend to all nurse educators.

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Reviewer: Melissa Banks-Sockriter, MSN (Delaware Technical & Community College)
Description: This book is designed to help new faculty members embrace nursing education as a liberal education, and shift away from a professional studies emphasis.
Purpose: It is intended to help new nursing faculty prepare for the teaching life.
Audience: This book is good for new educators just starting out, or seasoned faculty searching for meaning in their teaching.
Features: Four units cover a variety of areas in nursing education, starting with "Knowing the Self as Teacher," which encourages new faculty members to reflect on the pertinent questions that need to be asked to help them become the best possible educators. The third unit, "Teaching Practices That I Am Practicing," provides examples, bridging classroom theory and clinical practice. As a nurse educator, I enjoyed this unit the most, as there is nothing more gratifying than to see students apply the knowledge they have gained in a classroom or laboratory to an actual patient in the clinical environment. The clinical setting is where I find the most exciting and memorable education takes place. There is an especially interesting piece on "Helping Students Learn to Think," which uses as an example thinking out loud with students as they are problem solving. Chapters also include questions to ponder that push new nursing educators to critically think about their own teaching strategies.
Assessment: As a new nurse educator, I found this book to be helpful, educational, and insightful. It helped me evaluate my teaching and see how I can make changes to improve what my students learn in the classroom, laboratory, and clinical settings. As nurses, we are taught how to take care of patients, not necessarily how to make the transition to the classroom as teachers. This book is a resource that I would recommend to all nurse educators.