Fast Facts for the Clinical Nurse Instructor: Clinical Teaching in a Nutshell » (New Edition)

"[O]ffers advice on everything from organizing the clinical experience to understanding the legal issues of clinical education....The authors have 32 years of combined teaching experience and are able to offer quality, real life, clear instructions and advice in an easy-to-read book that easily slips into a lab coat pocket for a ready reference. This is a must have for the new clinical instructor as well as a concise reference for those who have been in the trenches but could use some streamlining to their teaching methods."

--Nursing Education Perspectives
The Research Journal of the National League for Nursing

The education of nursing students requires a balance between clinical application and theoretical knowledge-or the science and art of nursing. This practical, authoritative book contains comprehensive coverage of everything clinical instructors need to know in order to optimize the clinical experience for their students.

Readers will learn to:

• Organize the clinical experience
  
• Develop relationships with the staff in the clinical facilities
  
• Make clinical assignments
  
• Plan orientation days
  
• Develop clinical rotations and evaluations
  
• Understand the legal issues of clinical education

Concise and comprehensive, this book is formatted to present small but pertinent pieces of information, summarized in boxes representing the "Fast Facts in a Nutshell." User-friendly and highly accessible, Fast Facts serves as an invaluable resource for nurses who are beginning their professional teaching careers. It is also useful to seasoned faculty seeking additional resources to improve the clinical experience for their students. This book contains pragmatic, "real-life" information on the clinical teaching process.

Pt. I Appreciating Your New Identity: From Caregiver to Educator

1 Developing a New Identity as a Clinical Nursing Instructor 3

2 Understand the Rules: What Every Nursing Instructor Needs to Know about the Nursing Program's Policies 15

Pt. II Your Success Depends on "You": Preparing for Your Clinical Teaching Assignment

3 You Are a Guest, So Act Like One 25

4 Organize the Semester - Have a Plan 31

5 Confidentiality and Patient Privacy 39

Pt. III Getting To Know Your Nursing Students: Who Are the Best, and Who Are the Rest?

6 The High Fliers: How to Screen for Higher Achieving Students 47

7 The Not-So-High Fliers: How to Screen for Potential "Problem Students" 51

Pt. IV The Performance Appraisals: Clinical Evaluations

8 Making the Most of Student Self-Evaluation 61

9 The DOs and DON'Ts of Student Documentation 67

10 Early Warning System 73

11 Graded Clinical vs. Pass/Fail Evaluations 81

Pt. V Communication at Clinical Conferences

12 Preconferences 89

13 Postconferences 95

Pt. VI The Art of Making a Clinical Assignment

14 Unplanned Events 103

15 Alternative Assignments 109

Pt. VII Competencies Not Met

16 Punctuality and Absences 119

17 Unsafe Practice 125

18 What Your Students Will Expect from You 133

19 Conclusion 143

Appendix A 149

Appendix B 153

Appendix C 157

References 159

Index 161