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
Innehållsförteckning
’List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Foreword by Jeanne M. Novotny
Preface,
Mary Jane Smith and Joyce J. Fitzpatrick
Acknowledgment of Survey Participants
Index
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Om författaren
Mary Jane Smith, Ph D, 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.