Best Practices in Nursing Education: Stories of Exemplary Teachers

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Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, Mary Jane Smith, PhD, RN, FAAN
Springer Publishing Company, Sep 7, 2005 - Medical - 232 pages

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 nursing
  • Preparing and mentoring in teaching
  • Maintaining excellence
  • Comfortable times as a teacher
  • Embarrassing teaching moments
  • Most and least rewarding times
  • Significant challenges
  • Advice for new teachers
  • Building collegial relationships
  • Continuous self-development
  • Scholarly development
  • Balancing professional and personal life
 

Contents

CHAPTER 1 Introduction
1
CHAPTER 2 Diane M Billings
3
CHAPTER 3 Rosemary Donley
9
CHAPTER 4 Florence S Downs
20
CHAPTER 5 Vernice Ferguson
30
CHAPTER 6 M Louise Fitzpatrick
38
CHAPTER 7 William L Holzemer
48
CHAPTER 8 Pamela Ironside
56
CHAPTER 15 Marilyn Oermann
113
CHAPTER 16 Lynn Rew
118
CHAPTER 17 Grayce M Sills
126
CHAPTER 18 Ursula Springer
134
CHAPTER 19 Christine A Tanner
139
CHAPTER 20 Kimberly Adams Tufts
149
CHAPTER 21 Suzanne Van Ort
156
CHAPTER 22 May L Wykle
163

CHAPTER 9 Pamela R Jeffries
62
CHAPTER 10 Patricia R Liehr
70
CHAPTER 11 E Jane Martin
77
CHAPTER 12 Angela Barron McBride
87
CHAPTER 13 Diana Lynn Morris
99
CHAPTER 14 Adeline Nyamathi
107
CHAPTER 23 Joyce J Fitzpatrick
171
CHAPTER 24 Mary Jane Smith
176
CHAPTER 25 Tips and Techniques for Teachers
183
Acknowledgment of Survey Participants
205
Index
207
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About the author (2005)

Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, is Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, where she was Dean from 1982 through 1997. She is also Professor, Department of Geriatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. In 1990, Dr. Fitzpatrick received an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Humane Letters, from her alma mater, Georgetown University. In 2011 she received an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Humane Letters, from the Frontier University of Nursing. She has received numerous honors and awards; she was elected a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 1981 and a Fellow in the National Academies of Practice in 1996. She received the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award 18 times. Dr. Fitzpatrick is widely published in nursing and health care literature with over 300 publications. She served as co-editor of the Annual Review of Nursing Research series, vols. 1-26; she edits the journals Applied Nursing Research, Archives in Psychiatric Nursing, and Nursing Education Perspectives, the official journal of the National League for Nursing. She edited three editions of the classic Encyclopedia of Nursing Research (ENR), and a series of nursing research digests

Mary Jane Smith, PhD, RN, FAAN, earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from University of Pittsburgh and her doctorate from New York University. She has held faculty positions at the following nursing schools: University of Pittsburg, Duquesne University, Cornell University-New York Hospital, and The Ohio State University. Currently, Dr. Smith is a professor of nursing at West Virginia University School of Nursing; she has been teaching theory to master's and doctoral nursing students for over 4 decades.

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