Best Practices in Nursing Education: Stories of Exemplary Teachers / Edition 1

by Mary Jane Smith PhD, RN, FAAN, Joyce J. Fitzpatrick PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826132352
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	09/07/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

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.

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

Table of Contents

List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Foreword by Jeanne M. Novotny
Preface, Mary Jane Smith and Joyce J. Fitzpatrick

• Introduction
• Diane M. Billings
• Rosemary Donley
• Florence S. Downs
• Vernice Ferguson
• M. Louise Fitzpatrick
• William L. Holzemer
• Pamela Ironside
• Pamela R. Jeffries
• Patricia R. Liehr
• E. Jane Martin
• Angela Barron McBride
• Diana Lynn Morris
• Adeline Nyamathi
• Marilyn Oermann
• Lynn Rew
• Grayce M. Sills
• Ursula Springer
• Christine A. Tanner
• Kimberly Adams Tufts
• Suzanne Van Ort
• May L. Wykle
• Joyce J. Fitzpatrick
• Mary Jane Smith
• Tips and Techniques for Teachers
Acknowledgment of Survey Participants
Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"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