RN Kathleen T. Heinrich, PhD – författare

This timely volume in the Springer Annual Review of Nursing Education series reflects the hottest issues and trends igniting national discourse today. Written by nurse educators and focused on the practice of teaching across settings, the Annual Review provides educators in associate, baccalaureate, and graduate nursing programs, staff development, and continuing education with an array of strategies to expand their horizons and enrich their teaching.

From the lessons nurse educators and students learned in surviving the Gulf coast hurricanes to the impact of foreign nurses'' immigration on American nursing education, Volume 5 presents topics in the vanguard of nursing education concerns.

Topics included in this volume:Standardized patients in nursing educationStrategy for teaching cultural competenceManaging difficult student situationsChallenges calling American nurses to think and act globallyUsing benchmarking for continuous quality improvementE-portfolios in nursing education

Interested in the latest trends in nursing education written by the nurse educators pioneering these innovations? Then welcome to the first volume of the Annual Review of Nursing Education.This Review focuses on these innovative practices of teaching. It describes educational strategies you can adapt to your own settings and is written for educators in associate, baccalaureate, and graduate nursing programs, staff development, and continuing education. The goal of the Review is to keep educators updated on recent innovations in nursing education across all settings.

Designated a Doody's Core Title!This is imusti reading for anyone teaching nursing, at any level, in any program or institution. Covers trends and innovative strategies to help you develop a curriculum and be more effective in using it. Educators describe problems--such as students who cannot write or high NCLEX failure rates--and how they tackled and solved them. Each chapter contains common sense approaches to every educatoris questions. A resource no nursing education program can afford to be without.