Introduction
As a nurse educator, you will play a vital role in shaping the future of healthcare by teaching the next generation of nurses the skills necessary to become effective decision-makers and problem solvers. This guide provides sources that will help prepare you to teach in academic and clinical-practice settings.
For Chamberlain College of Nursing Faculty, one of the first places to visit for sources to start your teaching journey is the Center for Faculty Excellence.
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Website - Center For Faculty ExcellenceThis portal provides information for faculty development and scholarship.
eBooks
eBooks can provide information related to academic teaching in nursing. Below are a few eBooks that are available from the library that can assist you with classroom teaching. You can find additional eBooks on this topic by doing a search on the library homepage.
Here are some example search statements:
"nursing education"
nursing AND teaching
General
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An Educator's Guide to Humanizing Nursing Education: Grounded in Caring Science by ISBN: 9780826190086Publication Date: 2020-03-28Emphasizes the ways in which teachers can translate Human Caring and Caritas in order to include strategies for establishing authentic caring pedagogical relationships with their students. -
Creative Teaching Strategies for the Nurse Educator by ISBN: 9780803694057Publication Date: 2019-10-22Implement nearly 200 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. -
Fast Facts about Competency-Based Education in Nursing by ISBN: 9780826136534Publication Date: 2020-12-01The Fast Facts Book is a clear, succinct tool needed by nurse educators to move from a traditional nursing curriculum to one that ensures that nursing students are ready for today's healthcare challenges. -
Innovative Strategies in Teaching Nursing by ISBN: 9780826161093Publication Date: 2020-04-28This innovative text delivers more than 40 evidence-based teaching strategies that educators can use to engage nursing students and enhance their learning in a variety of teaching environments. -
The New Nurse Educator, Second Edition by ISBN: 9780826181824Publication Date: 2017-10-28This unequaled resource guides novice nurse educators step by step through the challenging process of transitioning from service to academe.
Online Teaching
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Designing and Teaching Online Courses in Nursing by ISBN: 9780826134080Publication Date: 2017-04-01This resource provides step-by-step instructions for RN to Bachelor of Science in Nursing, master's, Doctor of Nursing Practice, and PhD faculty on how to teach online effectively, engage students, and foster success for both student and teacher. -
Online Nursing Education: A Collaborative Approach by ISBN: 9781284181173Publication Date: 2020-11-23This unique text takes a theoretical approach to teaching and includes practical examples as well as sample curriculum, course design, and policies. -
Virtual Simulation in Nursing Education by ISBN: 9780826169631Publication Date: 2018-04-01Learn best practices for successfully integrating virtual simulation into nursing curriculum.
Course Writing Materials and Assessment
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Developing Tests and Questionnaires for a National Assessment of Educational Achievement by ISBN: 9780821374986Publication Date: 2008-05-01It introduces readers to the activities involved in the development of achievement tests, and includes developing an assessment framework, writing multiple choice and constructed response type items, pretesting, producing test booklets, and hand scoring items. -
Evaluation and Testing in Nursing Education by ISBN: 9780826135742Publication Date: 2019-12-28The only text to comprehensively address the assessment of student learning, as well as the evaluation of instructor and program effectiveness, in a wide variety of settings. -
Standardized Assessment and Test Construction Without Anguish by ISBN: 9781617619915Publication Date: 2011-01-01This practical book has been written to address a need for undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, and social researchers and professors. It proposes simple, step-by-step eight stages of test construction. -
Using Rubrics for Performance-Based Assessment by ISBN: 9781618218674Publication Date: 2019-05-30This book will show classroom teachers not only how to create their own objective rubrics, which can be used to evaluate performance assessments, but also how to develop rubrics that measure hard-to-assess skills, such as leadership and grit, and how to empower their own students to create rubrics that are tailored to their work.
Associations
Below are some websites that provide information on nursing education topics.
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Website - National League of NursingThe National League for Nursing seeks to advance nursing education by offering professional development and networking opportunities, nursing research grants, public policy initiatives, and more.
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Website - Quality and Safety Education for NursingThe Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project addresses the challenge of preparing future nurses with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems within which they work.