DESCRIPTION
This workshop will present innovative ways to teach nursing students in a wide variety of settings. The presenter will discuss issues that impact clinical teaching, as well as highlight national initiatives that are influencing the need to radically change clinical nursing education. Specific topics, for example, use of portfolios and ways to infuse clinical judgment, will be explored. The attendees will work in small groups apply clinical instruction and evaluation methods to their own clinical learning environment.

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

• Discuss the process of learning to become a clinical teacher.
• Describe characteristics of an effective clinical teacher.
• Discuss legal aspects of clinical instruction and evaluation.
• Identify changes in the workplace affecting clinical instruction.
• Describe 4 national initiatives that are influencing the need to change clinical instruction.
• Explain what is meant by “nurses are knowledge workers”.
• Discuss ways to teach students to think like a nurse.
• Recognize ways a portfolio can be used for evaluating clinical performance.