Optimizing Clinical Teaching: A Comprehensive Guide for Instructors

By Eden Zabat Kan PhD RN and Susan Stabler-Haas MSN RN PMHCNS-BC

Updated and Expanded Third Edition

Are you looking for a practical guide to tailor your teaching methods for nurses in different clinical backgrounds and specialties? Do you need advice on how to navigate the challenges of online learning and hospital electronic documentation? Look no further than the newly updated third edition of this best-selling guide.

Practical Tools for Clinical Instructors

This book offers pragmatic advice on organizing the clinical experience, developing effective relationships with staff at clinical facilities, making clinical assignments, planning orientation days, and understanding relevant legal issues. It covers key information about policies and procedures, from school to clinical site, and provides concrete tools for anxiety and stress reduction.

What’s New in the Third Edition

This edition includes:

• How to tailor teaching to various clinical sites, specialties, and different student populations
• Helpful stress- and anxiety-reduction tools for instructors and their students
• Coverage of the requirements of online learning and hospital electronic documentation
• Ways to retain clinical faculty

Key Features

This guide:

• Disseminates practical information in a concise, quick-access format
• Is useful for both novice and experienced clinical instructors
• Describes what every clinical instructor needs to know about policies and procedures, from school to clinical site
• Discusses documentation and student evaluations, student clinical conferences, and NCLEX preparation
• Reviews legal issues, including confidentiality and patient privacy

Product Details

Format: Paperback

Pages: 234

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company; 3 edition (September 20, 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0826140076

ISBN-13: 978-0826140074

Dimensions: 5 x 0.5 x 8 inches