Becoming a Nurse Educator: Dialogue for an Engaging Career: Dialogue for an Engaging Career

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.

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 straightforward 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.

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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.

Contents......Page 6 Foreword......Page 10 Introduction......Page 12 Acknowledgments......Page 22 Then and Now: A Call to Pause......Page 28 Honoring the Present in the Best and Worst Year......Page 36 “As If”: More of That First Year......Page 50 Scott’s Spirit on Lassen Peak: Finding the Spirit That Sustains You......Page 62 The Rhythm of Education: Dr. Harriet Werley, Thank You for Teaching Me......Page 72 How Can the Students Help Us Teach?......Page 84 Presence with Students: Posing Interest, Not Merely Paying Attention......Page 100 Clinical Teaching Is Where the Magic Lies......Page 114 The Novel: “Listen Her and She Will Show Us Everything”......Page 126 The Students Co-Construct the Classroom......Page 136 Creative Projects: “Could You Please Tell Us What You’re Looking For?”......Page 146 Teaching Life, Not Teaching Work......Page 160 The Musicality of Teaching: More Dreams for the Future Than Memories of the Past......Page 180 Index......Page 186