Nurse Educator Manual: Essential Skills and Guidelines for Effective Practice

Great for new educators and seasoned educators alike

This manual has everything a new nurse educator needs. Developed by a nursing education specialist the Nurse Educator Manual helps new educators hit the ground running.

This resource has comprehensive, ready-to-use tools to:

- Assess staffs' learning needs
- Plan curricula
- Create dynamic education programs
- Lead staff training sessions
- Evaluate education program techniques and effectiveness

With the Nurse Educator Manual, you will:

- Build a foundation of skills and concepts to help you become a master instructor. Apply adult-learning principles and receive tips for planning orientations, inservices, continuing education, and more!
- Revitalize your existing training programs. Be prepared to meet new challenges and utilize evidence-based teaching strategies
- Design exciting new training programs. Incorporate computer-based activities, evidence-based teaching techniques, and effective ways to educate multi-generational and culturally diverse learners.

Intended Users:

- Directors of Education
- Staff Development Specialists
- Nurse Managers
- Directors of Nursing
- Directors of Human Resources
- Vice Presidents of Nursing
- Chief Nursing Officers

Table of contents

The Nurse Educator Manual is divided into 14 specialized sections. Read through from beginning to end or select the most pertinent topic that fits your immediate need.

- Correlating values, vision, and mission statements with educational programming
- Qualifications and job descriptions
- Applying the principles of adult learning
- Collecting and analyzing education needs assessments data
- Planning and Implementation of Education
- Recordkeeping
- Learning styles
- Planning education for multi-cultural and multi-generational
- Strategies for dealing with the resistant learner
- Tips for planning orientation, inservice, and continuing education
- Quality improvement and evaluation of education effectiveness
- Writing test items
- Overview of a staff development business plan
- Ethical scenarios in staff development