Fast Facts for the Classroom Nursing Instructor

Fast Facts for the Classroom Nursing Instructor
Author: Patricia S. Yoder-Wise, EdD, RN-BC, NEA-BC,ANEF, FAAN
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2012-05-17
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0826109845

This Fast Facts guide provides the support needed by all classroom teachers and future nurse educators to improve their effectiveness and to more thoroughly and efficiently engage even the most challenging of contemporary learners. Using the concise, conversational Fast Facts format, the book offers quick access to information about varied aspects of classroom management and describes how to use "self as educator" to influence positive learning. The guide delineates key priorities on which educators must focus to provide an optimal learning experience for their students, and includes strategies for keeping students engaged in learning. Chapters feature vivid case examples and cover understanding the use of self, preparing for the classroom, building on strengths, engaging and coaching students, using agreements, and dealing with incivility in the classroom. In addition to traditional classroom learning, the book will be useful for online courses and in clinical conference discussions. Key Features: Focuses on the application of multiple learning theories Delineates key priorities for providing optimal classroom and online teaching Addresses common challenges such as dealing with incivility in the classroom Includes ìFast Facts in a Nutshellî feature and checklists to help guide new nurse faculty

Mosby's Tour Guide to Nursing School

Mosby's Tour Guide to Nursing School
Author: Melodie Chenevert
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2010-01-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0323067395

Encouraging, user-friendly, and altogether unique, Mosby's Tour Guide to Nursing School encourages you to not only survive nursing school, but excel in whichever program you select. Throughout the book, Dr. Chenevert compares your journey through nursing school to a road trip, and she offers advice to increase your understanding, help you successfully navigate obstacles, and make your journey more enjoyable. You'll learn how to prepare for the NCLEX® and your nursing career, how to get good grades, how to deal with failure, how to improve oral and written reports, and much more. A must-have for every nursing student! - Endorsed by the National Student Nurses Association (NSNA). - Written by a nationally known motivational speaker and nurse, the book's down-to-earth approach uses humor and clever analogies to clearly teach the information you need to know. - Uses the analogy of a cross-country road trip to help you see the relationships between different aspects of nursing school, as well as give you a finite view of its duration and end result. - Inspirational quotes throughout offer wisdom and encouragement from fellow nursing students and graduates. - The appendix lists numerous diverse resources you'll find useful before, during, and after nursing school. - Electronic Age Information covers distance learning, online courses, and podcasts, facilitating your success both in today's electronic classroom and with the advancing technology in nursing. - A special NCLEX® chapter (Chapter 29: Are We There Yet? Almost.) provides you with the tools you need to prepare for and pass the NCLEX®. - Updated statistics and information on the emerging trends of the workforce keep you current with what's happening in the world outside nursing and help you make educated choices during nursing school. - Three chapters are devoted to diversity in today's workforce and the non-traditional student. - Thorough coverage of ADN, BSN, and RN-BSN programs (program prerequisites, differences, and more) helps you make informed decisions about your choice of nursing programs. - An appendix of Online Resources provides quick and easy access to web sites that will assist both students and graduates with continued study and real-world advice.

Study Skills for Nurses

Study Skills for Nurses
Author: Claire Boyd
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2014-08-11
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1118657411

Survive academic study with this snappy guide to research techniques and strategies for all student nurses. Providing words of wisdom and tips from real student nurses, Study Skills for Nurses enables you to develop your own individual ways of studying for those all important projects, with exercises, step-by-step guides and tricks to help you get ahead. Special features Developed by students for students Clear, straightforward and jargon-free Ties in with the NMC standards for pre-registration education and the Essential Skills Clusters. Takes away the fear of study and independent research projects, making it approachable, easy and fun

Maternal & Child Health Nursing

Maternal & Child Health Nursing
Author: JoAnne Silbert-Flagg
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 3843
Release: 2022-02-22
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1975161084

A respected authority updated for today’s changing healthcare environment, Maternal & Child Health Nursing, 9th Edition, equips students for success by presenting maternal-newborn and child healthcare not as two separate disciplines, but as a continuum of knowledge. This extensively revised 9th Edition integrates a nursing process framework, an approachable organization, the latest evidence-based research, and engaging learning aids to ensure a mastery of essential concepts and cultivate the skills for successful nursing practice.

The Super, Epic, Mega Joke Book for Kids

The Super, Epic, Mega Joke Book for Kids
Author: Whee Winn
Publisher: Zonderkidz
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-06-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0310754763

The Super, Epic, Mega Joke Book for Kids is the perfect collection of kid-friendly jokes that will keep you and your friends and family laughing out loud! Introducing a collection of jokes that’s hilarious, clean, and kid-friendly and includes everything from knock-knock jokes, to Q&A jokes, tongue twisters, and a whole lot more. The Super, Epic, Mega Joke Book for Kids is certain to have every kid you know laughing out loud, snorting riotously, and generally gasping for air. The Super, Epic, Mega Joke Book for Kids: Family-friendly jokes Wide variety of joke styles Fun illustrations add to the fun Good for readers of all ages includes bonus Q&A jokes and riddles

The Happy Book

The Happy Book
Author: Rachel Kempster
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2009
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1402226527

The Happy Book shows how to practice and celebrate happiness so you can find it when you really need it. Packed with creative prompts, wacky ideas, and hip activities, this is the ultimate pick-me-up. Packaged to encourage doodling and drawing, The Happy Book has space to scribble thoughts, make lists, fill in the blanks, and paste pictures. This book is about creating a record of what makes you glad, whether that means '80s hair bands or hot chocolate with churros. Fully interactive and customizable for each reader, The Happy Book allows today's social networking fans an offline outlet for play. From photo scavenger hunts to cake baking to finger painting, everyone's happy formula is unique. The Happy Book enables readers to celebrate and share whatever gives them wall-to-wall joy.

Bedlam Among the Bedpans

Bedlam Among the Bedpans
Author: Amy Y. Young
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2006-08-31
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0323045243

A must-read for nursing professionals, Bedlam Among the Bedpans: Humor in Nursing, includes over 100 of the funniest and most creative stories about nursing collected from nursing journals, books, and the internet that highlight the humor in the situations nurses face every day. Inspired by the experiences of real nurses, the stories relate situations with insights that only nurses who have "been there" in the field could have. Includes some of the best pieces of creative and humorous writing published in the past 20 years. Stories that help nurses see the humor in challenging situations they encounter every day. Funny cartoons and illustrations that add even more humor to the book. Compiled by an academic librarian, this book includes a carefully chosen and well-rounded collection of entertaining stories.

Maternal-Neonatal Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!

Maternal-Neonatal Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!
Author: Laura Bruck
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 620
Release: 2007-09-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781582556512

Maternal-Neonatal Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! Second Edition offers everything nurses need to know for optimal maternal-neonatal nursing care. This thoroughly updated edition includes new information on bed rest, postpartum depression, alternative therapies, substance abuse, and complex psychosocial disorders, plus a new icon highlighting evidence-based practice. The book is written in the entertaining, award-winning Incredibly Easy! style, with numerous charts and illustrations, two four-page full-color inserts, humorous cartoons, icons emphasizing key information, memory joggers, and end-of-chapter quick quizzes. A bound-in CD-ROM contains more than 250 NCLEX®-style questions, as well as concept maps and lists of disorders with their associated nursing diagnoses.

Fundamentals of Nursing Practice

Fundamentals of Nursing Practice
Author: Fay Louise Bower
Publisher:
Total Pages: 624
Release: 1979
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

Presents nursing's concepts, roles and functions in practical use in ways that exhibit the holism of nursing's translation of its science into artistic practice.