Key Features

• Addresses the role transition for a nurse with clinical expertise to that of clinical nursing instructor.
• Provides important tips for effectively appraising student performance such as student involvement in self-evaluation and goal setting, and suggestions for how evaluation and appraisal are shared with the student.
• Incorporates sample scenarios to illustrate concepts and allow the reader to apply them.
• Integrates discussion questions and exercises designed to facilitate thoughtful application and critical thinking skills.
• Addresses all aspects of learning, including "cognitive" (e.g., critical thinking), "affective" (e.g., caring), and "psychomotor" (e.g., technical skills).
• Provides actual examples of tools to be used for documenting student performance and approaches for stimulating student involvement and critical thinking.
• Includes a separate chapter on Clinical Faculty as Clinical Coach that discusses how learning is facilitated in the clinical setting with the guidance of an effective teacher.
• Features a Clinical Toolbox that contains a variety of supplemental resources, including sample approaches for teaching and evaluation, suggestions for preparing anecdotal notes, and relevant reference material.
• Incorporates issues related to computer access of patient data banks for students, and the federal regulations mandated by HIPAA and their clinical education implications.