Move to the head of the class: developing staff nurses as teachers.

Full Abstract

Nurses, while clinical experts in their specific fields, rarely have an opportunity to learn and practice teaching skills needed in an educator role. Clinical experts experience anxiety when asked to make the transition from a clinical environment to the teaching role. This article describes a 4-hour program developed to train nurses to become teachers. Adult learning principles, learning styles, and curriculum development were included to demonstrate the skills necessary to help nurses become proficient teachers.

Author information

Author/s: Donner, Carol L (CL); Levonian, Catherine (C); Slutsky, Phyllis (P);

Affiliation: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. donner(-atsign-)email.chop.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Evaluation Studies; Journal Article

Journal: Journal for nurses in staff development : JNSD : official journal of the National Nursing Staff Development Organization (J Nurses Staff Dev), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: -2005 Nov-Dec; vol 21 (issue 6) : pp 277-83

Dates: Created 2005/12/06; Completed 2006/03/02;

PMID: 16331084, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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