F A Davis Co Creative Teaching Strategies for the Nurse Educator

Be more creative in any setting. Here are more than 150 practical, relevant, and easy-to-implement teaching strategies that will help you to engage your students in any classroom setting, develop their clinical judgment and test-taking skills, and prepare them for the Next Gen NCLEX®. Dr. Judith Herrman offers techniques for active learning and student engagement gathered over many years from her own teaching experiences that are adaptable to personal teaching content, reinforce evidence-based learning principles, and demonstrate innovation in nursing education, Five Stars! An excellent resource for the nursing educator. "This book is an easy read, full of ideas to make learning more interactive. There are examples for when and how to use the techniques, as well as lists of questions and case studies to get you started. This book is VERY user friendly."–Online Reviewer New! Focuses on the changes in teaching and evaluation methods needed to ensure safe patient care and success on the Next Gen NCLEX®, including evaluating assignments, classroom/group assessment, and self-evaluation/reflective methods to reinforce learning clinical judgment. New! Presents strategies that prepare nursing students to deliver safe and effective patient care at the bedside by focusing on clinical judgment in the classroom, clinical, and simulation lab. New! Provides the foundational strategies that foster clinical judgment across settings to teach and evaluate critical-thinking skills, including realistic client cases based on electronic health records. New! Offers guidelines for meeting the challenges of writing Next Gen cases and test questions along with best practices in testing and traditional item-writing. Updated! Provides content on strategies for teaching in a concept-based curriculum Implement over 150 teaching strategies to flip your classroom and engage your students for active learning. Follow step-by-step operational guidelines for implementing innovative strategies and understand their advantages and disadvantages. Use case studies, ‘how-tos' and examples on how and when to apply techniques to actively involve students in learning and move beyond lectures. Recognize the challenges presented by different types of educational settings and specific learning situations and explore potential solutions and teaching methods to overcome them. See how to structure your curricula around the content areas while fostering the development of critical thinking, clinical judgment, and test taking. Use the "Strategy Locator" to quickly find the specific activity you need.