You Can Teach Med Surg Nursing

ìThis guide and resource will give you all the direction and resources you need to perform in the role of a medical-surgical clinical instructorÖInstructors will discover this book takes the work out of working in the clinical area.î This is the first comprehensive resource for clinical medical-surgical nursing instructors responsible for guiding students through their entire clinical rotation. Filling a huge gap in resources for instructors required to teach this course, it contains everything the new or adjunct instructor needs to teach expertly and confidently. The guide describes the role of medical-surgical instructor and provides an introduction to the clinical site. It features a week-by-week instructional plan for the clinical rotation and includes all materials necessary to effectively perform administrative leadership and supervision, assess studentsí knowledge and learning styles, maximize the learning process, simplify evaluation, and help ensure a smooth transition to clinical practice. Brimming with helpful information, the guide will be a welcome companion to both experienced and novice medical-nursing instructors with its organizational teaching templates, teaching and learning resources, and evaluation materials. These include a course syllabus, comprehensive skills checklist, medication guidelines, resources for patient teaching, pre-and post-conference expectations and activities; even make-up assignments for students who miss a clinical class. Clinical instruction materials such as PowerPoints and simulation scenarios,are provided. Additionally, the book contains quizzes with answers, discussion questions, critical thinking exercises, and interactive student activities. Key Features: Comprises the first complete resource for successfully guiding students through their clinical rotations from start to finish Helps to allay the ìfear factorî for new and adjunct clinical nursing instructors Provides a week-by-week instructional guide that includes organizational teaching templates, teaching and learning resources, and evaluation aids Includes numerous forms and templates to facilitate administrative responsibilities, student assessment, and student evaluation Organizes key clinical information by body system and includes multiple interactive teaching tools

Buy both books together and save! Authored by Medical/Surgical and Critical Care Nurses with over 60 years of combined experience in both practice and academia, these books reflect the teaching expertise of and time-tested instructional tools developed by these leaders in the field. You CAN Teach Med-Surg Nursing! is the first comprehensive resource for clinical medical-surgical instructors responsible for guiding students through their entire clinical rotation. Containing everything the new or adjunct instructor needs to teach expertly and confidently, the guide describes the role of medical-surgical instructor and provides an introduction to the clinical site. It features a week-by-week instructional plan for the clinical rotation and includes all materials necessary to effectively perform administrative leadership and supervision, assess students' knowledge and learning styles, maximize the learning process, simplify evaluation, and help ensure a smooth transition to clinical practice. Included are Organizational Teaching Templates, Course Syllabus, Comprehensive Skills Checklist, Medication Guidelines, Patient Teaching Resources, Pre- and Post-Conference Expectations and Activities, PowerPoints, Simulation Scenarios, Quizzes, Critical Thinking Exercises, and more. You CAN Teach Advanced Med-Surg Nursing! is written specifically for nurses teaching Med-Surg II. In addition to providing the comprehensive resources included in the companion guide, it offers detailed strategies for dealing with challenges faced by the first-year instructor, including case studies and clinical pearls. A sample course syllabus and a week-by-week instruction guide ease the workload for a new instructor with their Organizational Teaching Templates, Teaching and Learning Resources, and Evaluation Materials. Additionally, the book provides an Adjunct Faculty Contract, Care Plan and Medication Forms, Make-Up Assignments, Tables, Pre- and Post-Conference Preparation, and Interactive Student Activities. A chapter on career goals and planning helps the instructor to guide students in their job search and in preparation for the licensing exam. Key Features of Teaching Med-Surg Nursing Set: Comprises the first complete resource for successfully guiding students through their clinical rotations from start to finish Focuses on the requirements of instructors teaching Med-Surg I and Med-Surg II Provides a week-by-week instructional guide that includes organizational teaching templates, teaching and learning resources, and evaluation aids Includes numerous forms to facilitate administrative responsibilities, student assessment, and student evaluation Organizes key clinical information by body system and includes multiple interactive teaching tools

This is the first comprehensive resource for clinical medical-surgical nursing instructors responsible for guiding students through their entire clinical rotation. Filling a huge gap in resources for instructors required to teach the medical-surgical nursing course, it contains everything the new or adjunct instructor needs to teach expertly and confidently. The guide features a week-by-week instructional plan for the clinical rotation and includes all materials necessary to effectively perform administrative leadership and supervision, assess studentsí knowledge and learning styles, maximize the learning process, simplify evaluation, and help ensure a smooth transition to clinical practice. The guide will serve as a welcome companion to both experienced and novice medical-nursing instructors with its week-by-week instruction guide that encompasses organizational teaching templates, teaching and learning resources, and evaluation materials. These include everything from the Adjunct Faculty Contract to the Course Syllabus to a Comprehensive Skills Checklist. Key clinical instruction materials, including PowerPoints and simulation scenarios are provided for each body system. Additionally the book contains quizzes with answers, discussion questions, and interactive student activities and exercises. Key Features: Comprises the first complete resource for successfully guiding students through their clinical rotations from start to finish Helps to allay the ìfear factorî for new and adjunct clinical nursing instructors Provides a week-by-week instructional guide that includes organizational teaching templates, teaching and learning resources, and evaluation aids Includes numerous forms and templates to facilitate administrative responsibilities, student assessment, and student evaluation Key clinical information is organized by body system and includes multiple interactive teaching tools

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Providing a solid foundation in medical-surgical nursing, Susan deWit’s Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts and Practice, 3rd Edition ensures you have the information you need to pass the NCLEX-PN® Examination and succeed in practice. Part of the popular LPN/LVN Threads series, this uniquely understandable, concise text builds on the fundamentals of nursing, covering roles, settings, and health care trends; all body systems and their disorders; emergency and disaster management; and mental health nursing. With updated content, chapter objectives, and review questions, this new edition relates national LPN/LVN standards to practice with its integration of QSEN competencies, hypertension, diabetes, and hypoglycemia. Concept Maps in the disorders chapters help you visualize difficult material, and illustrate how a disorder's multiple symptoms, treatments, and side effects relate to each other. Get Ready for the NCLEX® Examination! section includes Key Points that summarize chapter objectives, additional resources for further study, review questions for the NCLEX® Examination, and critical thinking questions. Nursing Care Plans with critical thinking questions provide a clinical scenario and demonstrate application of the nursing process with updated NANDA-I nursing diagnoses to individual patient problems. Anatomy and physiology content in each body system overview chapter provides basic information for understanding the body system and its disorders, and appears along with Focused Assessment boxes highlighting the key tasks of data collection for each body system. Assignment Considerations, discussed in Chapter 1 and highlighted in feature boxes, address situations in which the RN delegates tasks to the LPN/LVN, or the LPN/LVN assigns tasks to nurse assistants, per the individual state nurse practice act. Gerontologic nursing presented throughout in the context of specific disorders with Elder Care Points boxes that address the unique medical-surgical care issues that affect older adults. Safety Alert boxes call out specific dangers to patients and teach you to identify and implement safe clinical care. Evidence-based Practice icons highlight current references to research in nursing and medical practice. Patient Teaching boxes provide step-by-step instructions and guidelines for post-hospital care — and prepare you to educate patients on their health condition and recovery. Health Promotion boxes address wellness and disease prevention strategies that you can provide in patient teaching.

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