Annual Review of Nursing Education, Volume 4, 2006: Innovations in Curriculum, Teaching, and Student and Faculty Development by Marilyn H. Oermann, Kathleen T. Heinrich

Synopsis

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This is "must" reading for anyone teaching nursing, at any level, in any program or institution. Covers trends and innovative strategies to help you develop a curriculum and be more effective in using it. Educators describe problems—such as students who cannot write or high NCLEX failure rates—and how they tackled and solved them. Each chapter contains common sense approaches to every educator's questions. A resource no nursing education program can afford to be without.

Biography

Marilyn H. Oermann, PhD, RN, FAAN, ANEF, is a Professor and Chair of Adult and Geriatric Health in the School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She is author/co-author of 11 nursing education books and many articles on clinical evaluation, teaching in nursing, and writing for publication as a nurse educator. She is the Editor of the Journal of Nursing Care Quality and past editor of the Annual Review of Nursing Education. Dr. Oermann lectures widely on teaching and evaluation in nursing.

Kathleen T. Heinrich, PhD, RN, is the principal of KTH Consulting in Guilford, Connecticut, helping faculty groups become passionate scholars. Based on her 25 years as a university professor and 15 years of studying how nurses become scholars, Dr. Heinrich is writing a book entitled Share What You Do: An Experiential Guidebook for Nurses