Best Practices in Nursing Education Stories of Exemplary Teachers [Paperback]

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

What is teaching and how does one go about doing it are the questions that are answered in this book . . .[it] will become a classic in the field and is a tribute to the individuals who told their stories . . .
-from the foreword, Jeanne M. Novotny

Teaching is a gift we give to each other, and learning is a gift that we give to ourselves.
-from the preface by Mary Jane Smith and Joyce J. Fitzpatrick

1. Introduction
2. Diane M. Billings
3. Rosemary Donley
4. Florence S. Downs
5. Vernice Ferguson
6. M. Louise Fitzpatrick
7. William L. Holzemer
8. Pamela Ironside
9. Pamela R. Jeffries
10. Patricia R. Liehr
11. E. Jane Martin
12. Angela Barron McBride
13. Diana Lyl“O