Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sect. I: Introduction -- Effective learning: what teachers need to know -- Culture and diversity in the classroom -- The teaching-learning experience from a generational perspective -- Strategies for innovation -- Clinical reasoning: action-focused thinking -- Finding the information: strategies for conducting searches -- Sect. II: Educational use of technology -- Using multimedia in the blended classroom -- Teaching in the online environment -- Social media as a context for connected learning -- Sect. III: Teaching in structured settings -- Using lecture in active classrooms -- Lighten up your classroom -- Problem-based learning -- Debates as a teaching strategy -- Games are multidimensional in educational situations -- Role play -- Sect. IV: Teaching in guided practice settings -- The nursing skills laboratory: application of theory, teaching, and technology -- Human patient simulation -- Innovations in facilitating learning using patient simulation -- Interprofessional education strategies -- Sect. V: Teaching in unstructured settings -- Philosophical approaches to clinical instruction -- Crafting the clinical experience: a toolbox for healthcare professionals -- The preceptored clinical experience -- Learning in a faculty-mentored student practice center -- Service learning -- Engaging students in global health endeavors -- Sect. VI: Evaluation -- Concept mapping: a meaningful learning tool to promote conceptual understanding and clinical reasoning -- The clinical pathway: a tool to evaluate clinical learning -- Truth or consequences: the significance of giving and receiving evaluation feedback -- Evaluating a program's teaching resources -- Program evaluation.

Innovative Teaching Strategies in Nursing and Related Health Professions, Seventh Edition details a wealth of teaching strategies, focusing on incorporating technology into the classroom, including the use of Web 2.0 technologies like blogs and podcasts. Chapters on blended learning and study abroad programs are featured, enabling students to gain a more diverse and increased global perspective. Highlighting innovative teaching techniques for various learning environments and real-world illustrations of the strategies in use, this text goes beyond theory to offer practical application principles that educators can count on. The Seventh Edition includes two new chapters - Teaching through Storytelling and Giving and Receiving Evaluation Feedback. -- Provided by publisher.