Because students learn in different ways, teachers adapt curricula to diverse learning styles. This book presents state-of-the-art research and information on how to use learning-style based instruction in teaching and professional development for nurse and allied health educators.

This text delivers a myriad of strategies to help educators correlate their teaching methods with nurses' various learning styles to achieve optimal educational outcomes.

The challenge for an educator in a hospital is to provide for the learning needs of a diverse group of practitioners within the hospital that includes nurses who range in experience from advanced beginners to clinical experts. The purpose of this research project was to explore, describe, and compare learning styles and preferences of nurses in two areas of nursing practice: critical care and medical-surgical care. There are multiple facets of learning styles that can be assessed and applied to learning situations. Identifying learning styles may be beneficial to the nurse in order to assist with directing one's own learning but the research did not demonstrate a correlation between learning style, learning preferences or learning outcomes. This study included 107 nurses from critical care and medical-surgical care units at a hospital in western North Carolina. Participants completed the VAK learning styles inventory and selected from list three preferred learning methods. The majority demonstrated a preference for visual learning. Nurses from both practice areas chose skills demonstration as the most preferred learning method. This study failed to demonstrate any links or patterns associated with learning style and learning preferences for education methods for hospital specific education.

Innovative Teaching Strategies in Nursing and Related Health Professions, Fifth Edition continues to provide nursing educators and other health care professionals with the latest, proven teaching strategies. Newly revised and updated, this new Fifth Edition offers how-to-strategies for incorporating the burgeoning field of technology into the classroom. New topics include Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs and podcasts. Also featured are chapters on Blended Learning and Study Abroad programs, enabling students to gain a more diverse and increased global perspective. Featuring innovative teaching techniques for various learning environments and real world illustrations of the strategies in use, this book goes beyond theory to offer practical application principles that educators can count on!

This book is designed as a safety and health primer for individuals in the educational, workplace, and public sectors.If you are a safety education instructor, environmental health instructor, or occupational safety and health instructor, this may be the book you're looking for.Other professionals who should consider using this text include industrial firefighters, industrial engineers, safety engineers, respirator users, asbestos removers, lead-based paint and hazardous waste removers, chemical workers, and human resource managers.

The Future of Nursing explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system. At more than 3 million in number, nurses make up the single largest segment of the health care work force. They also spend the greatest amount of time in delivering patient care as a profession. Nurses therefore have valuable insights and unique abilities to contribute as partners with other health care professionals in improving the quality and safety of care as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted this year. Nurses should be fully engaged with other health professionals and assume leadership roles in redesigning care in the United States. To ensure its members are well-prepared, the profession should institute residency training for nurses, increase the percentage of nurses who attain a bachelor's degree to 80 percent by 2020, and double the number who pursue doctorates. Furthermore, regulatory and institutional obstacles-including limits on nurses' scope of practice-should be removed so that the health system can reap the full benefit of nurses' training, skills, and knowledge in patient care. In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.

Nurses play a crucial role as educators no matter their professional position in the workforce. They often lead in patient teaching, health education, and health promotion. Award-winning educator, Susan Bastable, comprehensively covers the major principles of teaching and learning for all audiences in a new edition of her best-selling text, Nurse as Educator: Principles of Teaching and Learning for Nursing Practice. She prepares nurse educators, clinical nurse specialists, and nurse practitioners and students for their expanding role as nurses and educators. With a focus on multiple audiences, Nurse as Educator applies to both undergraduate and graduate nursing courses. It covers topics in nursing education and health promotion not often found in other texts, such as health literacy, teaching people with disabilities, the impact of gender and socioeconomics on learning, technology for teaching and learning, and the ethical, legal, and economic foundations of the educational process.