Quinn's Principles and Practice of Nurse Education  (English, Paperback, Quinn Francis)

The fifth edition of the best-selling textbook has been extensively restructured and refocused to reflect key issues of nurse education and practice today. Covering all nursing education including teaching patients, clients and their families, it combines theoretical principles and practical application to appeal to nurse educators, students and clinicians in practice.

This updated text has been reorganised into four parts to reflect the main threads of nurse education:

Part One - The Psychological Basis of Teaching and Learning: focuses on adult learning theory and the varying approaches to learning teaching.Part Two - Learning, Teaching and Assessment: focuses on the skills and preparation necessary to ensure effective teaching and learning with NEW! material on the hidden curriculum, teaching and learning resources, the use of interactive whiteboards, blackboards and virtual learning environments and time management.

Part Three - Specific Teaching Contexts: offers guidance on teaching in the clinical setting and teaching patients, clients and their families with a NEW! chapter on Teaching Support Mechanisms.

Part Four - Continuing Professional Development: explains the importance of lifelong learning with a NEW! chapter on Preparation for an Education Post and NEW! material on reflection, research governance, maintaining clinical credibility, joint clinical-educational roles, self-assessment and training needs analysis.

About the Author

Francis M. Quinn was formerly Director of Healthcare Education in the School of Post Compulsory Education and Training at the University of Greenwich, London, UK.

Suzanne J. Hughes is a Lecturer in Adult Nursing Studies, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.NEW! Accompanying free website A free website to accompany this best-selling text is also available at www.nelsonthornes.com/nursing. It features templates for lesson plans, guides to learning outcomes, models of reflection, self assessment objective setting and links to the main regulatory bodies and organizations in nurse education.

Table of Contents

• Forword
• Preface to the fifth edition
• Acknowledgements
• Dedication

1. Introduction:Nurse education in the university abd the clinical setting

Part 1:The psychological Basis of Teaching and Learning

2. Adult Lerning theory
3. Perspectives on teaching and learning

Part 2:Learning, Teaching and Assessment

4. Curriculum theory and practice
5. Planning for teaching
6. Teaching strategies
7. Assessment of learning
8. Teaching study skills

Part 3: Specific Teaching Contexts

9. Teaching in the clinical setting
10. Teaching support mechanisms
11. Teaching Patients, Clients and their familles

Part 4:Continuing Professional Development

12. Preparation for an education post
13. Lifelong Learning
14. Continuing Professional development:the university context