Teaching Health Careers Education: Tools for Classroom Success

by Judith A Ruple, Alice "Twink" Dalton, William W Lee

Overview

Teaching Health Careers Education: Tools for Classroom Success helps healthcare professionals transition from practice into capable educators providing quality knowledge to a classroom of students. Novice and experienced educators alike will benefit from information on basic procedures, processes, and methods of teaching. Fifteen self-contained, yet comprehensive, modules explore each topic area. This approachable text is packed with helpful features, such as Key Terms, Learning Objectives, References, lists for further reading, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323042567
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	11/12/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	237
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Dr. Ruple has extensive professional experience in Health Science education gained while serving as a professor at the College of Health and Human Services, The University of Toledo. She has also held numerous positions in national associations and committees. Most recently, she served as Chair of the National Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee Education Subcommittee for the American Heart Association. She is past president of the National Association of EMS Educators. Dr. Ruple served as a content level leader of the National EMS Education Standards project. She was the principal investigator for the State of EMS Education Research Project, funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation/National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. She has written over 35 publications and has received numerous grants for research and development in the area of emergency medical services education.

Ms. Dalton began her career as an emergency department nurse and since that time has served as faculty and director of Creighton University's EMS Program, Trauma Coordinator for St. Joseph Hospital in Omaha, and served as EMS Education Coordinator for Omaha Fire Department, and Clinical Educator for Pridemark Paramedic Services. She has also served on the Education Subcommittee for the American Heart Association (AHA) and is now the Director of the EMS Division of Mountain View Fire Protection District in Longmont, Colorado. Twink lectures nationally and is a well-known author.

Dr. Lee is a research consultant in the field of healthcare education, instructional design, and multimedia development. Dr. Lee received his PhD from Penn State University in Curriculum Development and Instructional Design. He is the lead author of three books about multimedia instructional design and one on organizational development. He has worked for numerous major corporations during his career including, American Airlines, EDS, and Ferranti Defense Systems, as well as The American Heart Association as a manager and director of training and education. He has been on the faculties of Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Penn State University, Virginia State University, University of Oklahoma, and the University of Texas at Dallas. He has been a featured speaker at local, regional, national, and international conferences and was the chair of the ASTD Technology Conference in 2002. He has designed and developed award-winning training and multimedia courses for many corporations throughout his career.

Table of Contents

Chapter Module 1 Welcome to the Health Career Classroom
Chapter Module 2 The Roles and Responsibilities of Healthcare Instructors
Appendix 2A Honolulu Community College Syllabus Suggested Form
Chapter Module 3 Legal Issue s in Education
Chapter Module 4.1 Creating a Positive Classroom Environment
Chapter Module 4.2 Classroom Management
Chapter Module 5 How Adults Learn
Chapter Module 6 Goals and Objectives
Chapter Module 7 Lesson Plans
Appendix 7A Sample Lesson Plan Formats
Appendix 7B Needs Assessment
Chapter Module 8 Presentation Techniques
Chapter Module 9 Communication Skills
Appendix 9A Sample Learning Contract
Appendix 9B Answers to Case Study Listening Activity
Chapter Module 10 Facilitating and Enhancing Thinking Skills
Appendix 10A Generic Performance Rubric Template
Appendix 10B Evaluation Rubric for Higher-Order Thinking
Appendix 10C Questions to Guide the Selection of the Thinking Skills/Reasoning Process to Incorporate into a Lesson
Appendix 10D Suggested Questions to Use with Patient Scenarios
Chapter Module 11 Facilitation Techniques
Appendix 11A Answers to Directed and Nondirected Questions Activity
Appendix 11B Answers to Active Listening Activity
Chapter Module 12 How to Teach Using Case Studies
Appendix 12A Sample Case Studies and Case Study Questions
Appendix 12B Cameron and Monroe's (2007) Spinal Cord Injury Case Study
Chapter Module 13 Teaching Psychomotor Skills
Appendix 13A Task Analysis for the Bag-Mask Skill: Using a Bag-Mask to Ventilate an Apneic Patient
Appendix 13B Skills Grids
Appendix 13C Summary of Neurobiological Research
Chapter Module 14 Using Games in the Classroom
Chapter Module 15 Evaluation and Remediation
Chapter Glossary
Chapter Index