This collection features the books and book contributions of the Fairfield University Nursing and Health Studies Faculty.
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Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: A Guide for Prescribers, Therapists, Patients and their Families
Peter Breggin M.D. and Kathleen Wheeler
Kathleen Wheeler contributed the "Foreword".
Book description: This is the first book to establish guidelines and to assist prescribers and therapists in withdrawing their patients from psychiatric drugs, including those patients with long-term exposure to antipsychotic drugs, benzodiazepines, stimulants, antidepressants, and mood stabilizers. It describes a method developed by the author throughout years of clinical experience, consultations with experienced colleagues, and scientific research. Based on a person-centered collaborative approach, with patients as partners, this method builds on a cooperative and empathic team effort involving prescribers, therapists, patients, and their families or support network.
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Simulation Scenarios for Nurse Educators: Making it REAL, 2nd ed.
Suzanne H. Cambell, Karen Daley, and Alison E. Kris
Alison Kris is a contributing author, "Care of an Older Adult with Congestive Heart Failure," p. 67-77.
Book description: This second edition of an acclaimed book for nurse educators provides a practical, step-by-step guide to designing and developing simulation scenarios and integrating them into the nursing curriculum. Based on extensive discussion with contributing authors and new faculty, the text has been updated to include changes in simulation pedagogy since the first edition was published in 2008, and thoroughly reorganized to facilitate greater ease of use. Outstanding features include scenarios easily adaptable to the instructor's own lab, and a new section on graduate nursing education and interdisciplinary clinical scenarios. Scenarios are ordered according to their complexity for ease of access. The authors provide concrete information about the use of simulation in a variety of programs, courses, and schools, and describe how nursing faculty have mastered the challenge of integrating simulation into their curricula, from fundamental nursing arenas to more complex levels of care. Chapters discuss how simulation can be used with such diverse populations as medical-surgical, geriatric, pediatric, trauma, obstetric, and home care. The book offers scenario-running instructions, as well as recommendations on developing faculty, integrating point-of-care decision-making tools and necessary equipment, how to set up a lab (including static to high-fidelity manikins), and much more. Scenarios explore key themes in nursing, from ethics, spirituality and palliative care, to communication and cultural diversity. A template for creating scenarios spans the text and includes student preparation materials, forms, and checklists.
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Simulation Scenarios for Nurse Educators: Making it REAL, 2nd ed.
Suzanne H. Campbell, Karen Daley, and Sheila Grossman
Sheila Grossman is a contributing author. "The Older Adult in an ICU with Acute Respiratory Failure: Critical Care Nursing, Senior-Year Elective" and "Primary Care Patient with Gastrointestinal Problems: Graduate Program Advanced Physiology and Pathophysiology".
Book description: This second edition of an acclaimed book for nurse educators provides a practical, step-by-step guide to designing and developing simulation scenarios and integrating them into the nursing curriculum. Based on extensive discussion with contributing authors and new faculty, the text has been updated to include changes in simulation pedagogy since the first edition was published in 2008, and thoroughly reorganized to facilitate greater ease of use. Outstanding features include scenarios easily adaptable to the instructor's own lab, and a new section on graduate nursing education and interdisciplinary clinical scenarios. Scenarios are ordered according to their complexity for ease of access. The authors provide concrete information about the use of simulation in a variety of programs, courses, and schools, and describe how nursing faculty have mastered the challenge of integrating simulation into their curricula, from fundamental nursing arenas to more complex levels of care. Chapters discuss how simulation can be used with such diverse populations as medical-surgical, geriatric, pediatric, trauma, obstetric, and home care. The book offers scenario-running instructions, as well as recommendations on developing faculty, integrating point-of-care decision-making tools and necessary equipment, how to set up a lab (including static to high-fidelity manikins), and much more. Scenarios explore key themes in nursing, from ethics, spirituality and palliative care, to communication and cultural diversity. A template for creating scenarios spans the text and includes student preparation materials, forms, and checklists.
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Simulation scenarios for nurse educators: Making it REAL, 2nd ed.
Suzanne H. Campbell, Karen Daley, Diana R. Mager, and Jean Lange
Diana Mager is a contributing author: "Home Care Patient with Elevated Blood Sugars," "Post Operative Care Following an Appendectomy" (with Jean Lange), and "Building a Learning Resource Center" (with Karen Daley and Suzanne Campbell).
Book description: This second edition of an acclaimed book for nurse educators provides a practical, step-by-step guide to designing and developing simulation scenarios and integrating them into the nursing curriculum. Based on extensive discussion with contributing authors and new faculty, the text has been updated to include changes in simulation pedagogy since the first edition was published in 2008, and thoroughly reorganized to facilitate greater ease of use. Outstanding features include scenarios easily adaptable to the instructor's own lab, and a new section on graduate nursing education and interdisciplinary clinical scenarios. Scenarios are ordered according to their complexity for ease of access. The authors provide concrete information about the use of simulation in a variety of programs, courses, and schools, and describe how nursing faculty have mastered the challenge of integrating simulation into their curricula, from fundamental nursing arenas to more complex levels of care. Chapters discuss how simulation can be used with such diverse populations as medical-surgical, geriatric, pediatric, trauma, obstetric, and home care. The book offers scenario-running instructions, as well as recommendations on developing faculty, integrating point-of-care decision-making tools and necessary equipment, how to set up a lab (including static to high-fidelity manikins), and much more. Scenarios explore key themes in nursing, from ethics, spirituality and palliative care, to communication and cultural diversity. A template for creating scenarios spans the text and includes student preparation materials, forms, and checklists.
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Mentoring in nursing: A dynamic and collaborative process. 2nd ed.
Sheila Carey Grossman
Thoroughly updated with new content and wide revisions, this award-winning text provides educators and practitioners with the perspectives and skills they need to bring the next generation of educators, researchers, and clinicians to the forefront of nursing--whether in academia, the hospital or health care facility, and/or through their professional nursing organization.
Topics that have been revised include perceptions of definitions and components of the mentoring process, empowering versus enabling others, the mentor and mentee perspective of mentoring experience, models and strategies of different types of mentoring, creating a mentoring culture, strategies of mentoring for personal and professional improvement, and measurement of mentoring outcomes.
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Case Studies in Gerontological Nursing for the Advanced Practice Nurse
Meredith Wallace Kazer, Leslie Neal-Boylan, Alison E. Kris, and Kathleen Lovanio
Meredith Wallace Kazer is a co-editor.
Alison Kris is a contributing author, "Shifting the Focus of Care" and "Taking Control of the Pain."
Kathleen Lovanio is a contributing author (with Patricia C. Gantert, and Susan A. Goncalves), "I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired (pp. 203-212)" and "The diabolical Ds (pp. 295-303)."
Book description: As the fastest growing population sector worldwide, older adults are seen in almost every care setting in which clinicians practice. Developed as a resource for advanced practice nurses in any setting, Case Studies in Gerontological Nursing for the Advanced Practice Nurse presents readers with a range of both typical and atypical cases from real clinical scenarios. The book is organized into six units covering cases related to ageism, common health challenges, health promotion, environments of care, cognitive and psychological issues, and issues relating to aging and independence. Each case follows a similar format including the patient's presentation, critical thinking questions, and a thorough discussion of the case resolution through which students and clinicians can enhance their clinical reasoning skills. Designed to promote geriatric clinical education through self-assessment or classroom use, Case Studies in Gerontological Nursing for the Advanced Practice Nurse is a key resource for all those dedicated to improving care for older adults. -- Publisher description
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Active Surveillance for Localized Prostate Cancer: A New Paradigm for Clinical Management (Current Clinical Urology)
Laurence Klotz and Meredith Wallace Kazer
Meredith [Wallace] Kazer (with D.E. Bailey) is a contributing author, "Psychosocial Aspects of Active Surveillance".
Book description: The volume provides an introduction to the concept of active surveillance in oncology in general and prostate cancer specifically. The primary focus is to provide a comprehensive guide to the management of patients on surveillance. The volume covers the many complexities and nuances to this approach including, patient selection, risk assessment, how to overcome 'cancer hysteria' when counseling patients, identifying appropriate triggers for intervention, use of PSA kinetics and MR imaging information, technique and frequency of biopsies, secondary prevention interventions, and the relative roles of surveillance and focal therapy.
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Focus on Adult Health Medical-Surgical Nursing
L. Honan Pellico, Cynthia Bautista, and Christa Esposito
Cynthia Bautista is a contributing author, "Chapter 46 Nursing Management: Patients with Neurologic Disorders."
Christa Esposito is a contributing author, "Nursing Management: Patients with sexually transmitted infections", Chapter 35.
Book Description: Focus on Adult Health: Medical-Surgical Nursing, is uniquely designed to prepare today’s students to succeed as practicing nurses by focusing on the most important medical disorders and key nursing responsibilities. “As the demand for nurses continues to grow, new nurses are entering a dynamic and challenging work environment, and many feel unprepared,” said Linda H. Pellico, RN, PhD, the lead author and editor of the textbook. “We developed this textbook and related tools to prepare students for the reality of medical-surgical nursing. We need to teach students how to think like a nurse, and how to focus quickly on the most critical aspects. Beyond taking care of what you see, nursing is about predicting and preventing risks, so this book details risk factors, clinical presentation, and treatment.”
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Spirituality in Higher Education: autoethnographies
Heewon V. Chang, Drick Boyd, Eileen R. O'Shea, Roben Torosyan, Tracey Robert, I. Haug, Betsy Bowen, and M. Wills
Eileen R. O'Shea is a contributing co-author (with Roben Torosyan, Tracey Robert and Betsy Bowen), " Spirituality & Professional Collegiality: Espirit de 'Core'", Chapter 5, pp. 87-107.
Book description: This collection of articles explores how a wide range of academics-- diverse in location, rank and discipline-- understand and express how they deal with spirituality in their professional lives and how they integrate spirituality in teaching, research, administration, and advising. The contributors also analyze the culture of academia and its challenges to the spiritual development of those involved. Twenty chapter authors--from a variety of faith traditions--discuss the ways in which their own beliefs have affected their journeys through higher education. By using an autoethnographic, self-analytical lens, this collection shows how various spiritualities have influenced how higher education is understood, taught and performed. The book will stimulate debate and conversations on a topic traditionally ignored in academia.- Publisher description
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Nursing Leadership: A Concise Encyclopedia, Second Edition
Harriet R. Feldman, Meredith Wallace Kazer, and Joyce J. Fitzpatrick
Meredith [Wallace] Kazer (with J. Fitzpatrick) is a contributing author, " Foundation funding for healthcare".
Book description: A single comprehensive reference for nursing leaders, leadership organizations, nursing clinicians, and educators, Nursing Leadership is the only compendium of nursing terminology in existence. Written by eminent nursing professionals, it provides descriptions of prominent individuals in nursing, information regarding nine leadership-related topics, and current trends in nurse leadership.
This second edition has been expanded to encompass 80 new entries and revisions or updates to all original entries. It provides an extensive overview of current leadership issues including theories, characteristics, and skills required of nurse leaders in today's complex health care system. Highly respected contributors include Claire Fagan, Beverly Malone (NLN CEO), Polly Bednash (AACN CEO), Patricia Benner, and many others. For ease of use this new edition contains both alphabetic and thematic indexes, extensive cross-referencing, and print and web references for each entry.
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Encyclopedia of Nursing Research, 3rd Edition
Joyce J. Fitzpatrick and Meredith Wallace Kazer
The Encyclopedia of Nursing Research, now in its third edition, is the comprehensive resource for tracking developments in the field. With over 20 new areas of research, and meticulous updates of original entries, the encyclopedia presents key terms and concepts and their application to practice. Pithy entries provide the most relevant and current research perspectives, and will be a starting point for future content and references. Nurse researchers, educators, students, and all clinical specialties will find the encyclopedia an important introduction to the breadth of nursing research today. New topics include NIH-funded research areas, a comprehensive survey of major nursing research journals, addictions care, palliative care, translational science, simulation, trauma care, family-centered care, mild cognitive impairment, active surveillance for cancer care, workplace and empowerment research, nurse engagement, nurse-physician collaboration, CAM and empowerment research, spirituality, synthesis and action research, mixed methods research, systematic review, ethnopharmacology, and more.
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Gerontological Nurse Practitioner (GNP) Certification Review Book
Meredith Wallace Kazer and Sheila Grossman
Gerontological Nurse Practitioner Certification Review is the first book to provide a thorough review of test content to effectively prepare nurses to successfully pass the GNP certification exam. Contains over 200 practice questions culled from the real ANCC test outline.
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The Nurse’s Role in Promoting Optimal Health of Older Adults: Thriving in the Wisdom Years
Jean Lange, Alison E. Kris, Sally O. Gerard, and S. Fisher
Alison Kris and Sally Gerard (with S. Fisher) are contributing authors, "Health Status of the Older Adult Population."
Alison Kris is a contributing author, "Understanding Older Adults: US and Global Perspectives"
Book description: Why focus on the negative aspects of growing old while most older adults are leading positive, fulfilling, and active lives even while dealing with the changes associated with aging and chronic illnesses? Promote healthy aging; learn what it means to age successfully; and develop the tools and resources that can optimize well-being during the later years in life with the guidance you'll find inside. The author, a nationally recognized expert in the field of gerontology addresses the physical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of older adults based on a holistic, mid-range nursing theory of successful aging. Contributions from healthcare professionals in exercise physiology, nutrition, pharmacy and elder law help you understand how these disciplines work together to benefit patients.
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The Nurse's Role in Promoting Optimal Health of Older Adults: Thriving in the Wisdom Years
Jean Lange and Diana Mager
Diana Mager is a contributing author, "Chapter 16 - Living safely in the community."
Book description: Why focus on the negative aspects of growing old while most older adults are leading positive, fulfilling, and active lives even while dealing with the changes associated with aging and chronic illnesses? Promote healthy aging; learn what it means to age successfully; and develop the tools and resources that can optimize well-being during the later years in life with the guidance you'll find inside. The author, a nationally recognized expert in the field of gerontology addresses the physical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of older adults based on a holistic, mid-range nursing theory of successful aging. Contributions from healthcare professionals in exercise physiology, nutrition, pharmacy and elder law help you understand how these disciplines work together to benefit patients.
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Gerontological Nursing 4th Edition
Sue E. Meiner and Meredith Wallace Kazer
Meredith [Wallace] Kazer is a contributing author, "Cognitive and Neurologic Function".
Book description: Covering both disorders and wellness, Gerontologic Nursing provides the essential information you need to provide the best nursing care to older adults. A body-system organization makes information easy to find, and discussions include health promotion, psychologic and sociocultural issues, and the common medical-surgical problems associated with aging adults. Written by expert educator and clinician Sue Meiner, EdD, RN, CS, GNP, this book also emphasizes topics such as nutrition, chronic illness, emergency treatment, patient teaching, home care, and end-of-life care.
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Clinical Case Studies for the Family Nurse Practitioner
Leslie Neal-Boylan and Meredith Wallace Kazer
Meredith [Wallace] Kazer is a contributing author, " Prostate Cancer".
Book description: Clinical Case Studies for the Family Nurse Practitioner is a key resource for advanced practice nurses and graduate students seeking to test their skills in assessing, diagnosing, and managing cases in family and primary care. Composed of more than 70 cases ranging from common to unique, the book compiles years of experience from experts in the field.
Clinical Case Studies for the Family Nurse Practitioner is organized chronologically, presenting cases from neonatal to geriatric care in a standard approach built on the SOAP format. This includes differential diagnosis and a series of critical thinking questions ideal for self-assessment or classroom use.
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Clinical teaching strategies in nursing (3rd ed.)
Kathleen B. Gaberson, Marilyn H. Oermann, and Suzanne Hetzel Campbell
Suzanne H. Campbell is a contributing author (Chapter 8).
Book Description: This textbook presents a comprehensive framework for planning, guiding, and evaluating learning activities for undergraduate and graduate nursing students in clinical settings. It presents clinical teaching strategies that are effective and practical in a rapidly changing health care environment. It describes a range of teaching strategies useful for courses in which the teacher is on-site with students, in courses using preceptors, in simulation laboratories, and in distance education environments.
This book represents the cutting edge of educational strategies, examining innovative uses of virtual reality, game-based learning, and nontraditional sites for clinical teaching. Also discussed are culturally inclusive strategies, methods incorporating current technologies, and strategies for teaching students with disabilities. Recognizing that clinical settings require different approaches to teaching, the contributors present all the tools necessary to help educators meet the challenges of this complex learning environment. – Publisher description
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How to Run Your Own Nurse Practitioner Business: A Guide for Success
Sheila Grossman and Martha Burke O'Brien
This book serves as an authoritative reference designed for nurse practitioners (NPs), masters and doctoral level students, and administrators interested in developing and managing high-quality, cost-effective, and patient-accessible healthcare in NP settings. The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Essentials are described in detail, and implications of the practice doctorate are integrated into this comprehensive text designed assist the reader in learning the principles of business management.
The authors delineate the scope and role of the NP, the changing vision of healthcare delivery and its impact on NPs, and an analysis of the impact of statutes and legislation on NP-run practices. The book also provides a review of entrepreneurial models of NP delivery settings.
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Gerontological Nursing: Competencies for Care, 2nd ed.
Kristen L. Mauk, Jean W. Lange, and Sheila Grossman
Sheila Grossman and Jean Lange are contributing authors, "Theories of aging." (pp. 50 – 75).
Book description: Gerontological Nursing: Competencies for Care, Second Edition is a comprehensive and student-accessible text that offers a holistic and inter-disciplinary approach to caring for the elderly. The framework for the text is built around the Core Competencies set forth by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing. Building upon their knowledge in prior medical surgical courses, this text gives students the skills and theory needed to provide outstanding care for the growing elderly population. This innovative text is the first of its kind to have over 40 contributing authors from many different disciplines. Some of the key features of the text include chapter outlines, learning objectives, discussion questions, personal reflection boxes, case studies and more!
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Cancer Nursing: Principles and Practice 7th Edition
Connie H. Yarbro, Debra Wujcik, Barbara H. Gobel, Meredith Wallace Kazer, and A. Harmon
Meredith [Wallace] Kazer (with A. Harmon) is a contributing author, "Prostate Cancer".
Book description: For more than eighteen years, best-selling Cancer Nursing: Principles and Practice has provided oncology nurses with the latest information on new trends in the rapidly changing science of oncology. Now, in its Seventh Edition, Cancer Nursing has been completely revised and updated to reflect key new developments. New topics covered include targeted therapy, hypersensitivity reactions, mucositis, and family and caregiver issues. With 27 new chapters featuring insights from key authors, the Seventh Edition is a must-have resource for every oncology nurse. --Publisher description.
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Simulation Scenarios for Nurse Educators: Making it REAL
Suzanne H. Cambell, Karen Daley, and Alison E. Kris
Alison Kris is a contributing author, "Care of an Older Adult with Congestive Heart Failure.", pp. 67-77.
Book description: Computerized patient simulation is an exciting and innovative pedagogical method that allows nurse educators to prepare student nurses for the challenges of clinical practice. This book serves as a step-by-step guide to designing and developing simulated scenarios, and integrating them into nursing curriculums. The authors provide concrete information about the use of simulation in a variety of programs, courses, and schools with flexible simulator uses, including live actors and static mannequins. This book also provides options for building a learning resource center, and offers guidance on faculty development. Additionally, the contributors present 17 exemplars of actual scenarios in multiple clinical areas, as well as testimonies of practicing faculty.
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Simulation Scenarios for Nurse Educators: Making it REAL
Suzanne Campbell, Karen Daley, and Sheila Grossman
Sheila Grossman is a contributing author, "The Older Adult in an ICU with Acute Respiratory Failure: Critical Care Nursing, Senior-Year Elective", Chapter 8.(pp. 79 -90).
Book description: Computerized patient simulation is an exciting and innovative pedagogical method that allows nurse educators to prepare student nurses for the challenges of clinical practice. This book serves as a step-by-step guide to designing and developing simulated scenarios, and integrating them into nursing curriculums. The authors provide concrete information about the use of simulation in a variety of programs, courses, and schools with flexible simulator uses, including live actors and static mannequins. This book also provides options for building a learning resource center, and offers guidance on faculty development. Additionally, the contributors present 17 exemplars of actual scenarios in multiple clinical areas, as well as testimonies of practicing faculty.
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Simulation scenarios for nurse educators: Making it REAL
Suzanne H. Campbell, Karen Daley, Diana Mager, and Jean Lange
Diana Mager is a contributing author: "Diabetic Home Care Patient with Elevated Blood Sugars," "Post Operative Care Following an Appendectomy" (with Jean Lange), and "Building a Learning Resource Center" (with Karen Daley and Suzanne Campbell).
Book description: Computerized patient simulation is an exciting and innovative pedagogical method that allows nurse educators to prepare student nurses for the challenges of clinical practice. This book serves as a step-by-step guide to designing and developing simulated scenarios, and integrating them into nursing curriculums. The authors provide concrete information about the use of simulation in a variety of programs, courses, and schools with flexible simulator uses, including live actors and static mannequins. This book also provides options for building a learning resource center, and offers guidance on faculty development. Additionally, the contributors present 17 exemplars of actual scenarios in multiple clinical areas, as well as testimonies of practicing faculty.
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Simulation scenarios for nurse educators: Making it REAL
Suzanne H. Campbell, Karen Daley, Joyce M. Shea, and Laurence Miners
Joyce Shea is a contributing author, "Faculty learning communities: An innovative approach to faculty development," Chapter 4, pp. 33-42 (with Suzanne Campbell and Laurence Miners) and "Assessing a patient with a mood disorder," Chapter 17, pp. 179-190.
Book description: Computerized patient simulation is an exciting and innovative pedagogical method that allows nurse educators to prepare student nurses for the challenges of clinical practice. This book serves as a step-by-step guide to designing and developing simulated scenarios, and integrating them into nursing curriculums. The authors provide concrete information about the use of simulation in a variety of programs, courses, and schools with flexible simulator uses, including live actors and static mannequins. This book also provides options for building a learning resource center, and offers guidance on faculty development. Additionally, the contributors present 17 exemplars of actual scenarios in multiple clinical areas, as well as testimonies of practicing faculty.
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Simulation Scenarios for Nurse Educators: Making it REAL
Suzanne Hetzel Campbell and Karen Daley
Book description: Computerized patient simulation is an exciting and innovative pedagogical method that allows nurse educators to prepare student nurses for the challenges of clinical practice. This book serves as a step-by-step guide to designing and developing simulated scenarios, and integrating them into nursing curriculums. The authors provide concrete information about the use of simulation in a variety of programs, courses, and schools with flexible simulator uses, including live actors and static mannequins.
This book also provides options for building a learning resource center, and offers guidance on faculty development. Additionally, the contributors present 17 exemplars of actual scenarios in multiple clinical areas, as well as testimonies of practicing faculty. – Publisher description