Best Practices in Nursing Education

Who better to learn from about teaching than teachers themselves? Written by teachers and about teachers, this book is for graduate students in nursing education as well as mid-career nurse educators. This volume features narratives based on interviews with twenty-one distinguished teachers of nursing. Selected by the editors based on personal experiences with them as teachers or mentors, their current stature in the nursing education community, or because they are recipients of national teaching awards, these teachers provide multiple role models for career development and offer a plethora of wisdom, including: Deciding on a career in teaching nursingPreparing and mentoring in teachingMaintaining excellenceComfortable times as a teacherEmbarrassing teaching momentsMost and least rewarding timesSignificant challengesAdvice for new teachersBuilding collegial relationshipsContinuous self-developmentScholarly developmentBalancing professional and personal life