Conversations in Nursing Professional Developement


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This text answers questions about the basics of nursing staff development, such as roles and responsibilities, educational designs, and learning styles, as well as advanced topics such as accreditation/approval and certification. Written in a controversial style, readers can quickly identify topics of interest.







Nursing Professional Development Competencies


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Nursing Professional Development Competencies: Tools to Evaluate and Enhance Educational Practice is the only resource of its kind that provides nursing professional development specialists with a framework for career development and competence. Barbara A. Brunt's research has developed more than 70 evidence- based competencies, aligned with the Scope and Standards of Practice and Benner's novice to expert continuum. Staff educators can use this book in numerous ways-from personal development, such as measuring and demonstrating proficiency, to training new educators. With more than 70 evidence-based competencies, educators can immediately download the tools and incorporate them into practice. Nursing Professional Development Competencies provides nursing professional development specialists with tools to move through the nursing professional development role and develop expertise.




Critical Conversations


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With today's health care systems demanding not only capable nurses but also reflective practitioners, nurse educators are challenged more than ever to engage students in making sense of their experiences and responding thoughtfully to diverse situations. Critical Conversations helps nursing educators discover how better listening can lead to better learning with insightful guidance on the conversations that drive effective understanding for both instructors and students. Applying The NLN Guide for Teaching Thinking, this monograph helps nursing educators practice and implement the most effective strategies for fostering critical conversations across simulation, classroom, and clinical learning environments. From conceptualizing learning as meaning making to the cognitive strategy of being critical and engaging learners through purposeful learning conversations, straightforward exemplars throughout the text offer a support structure to guide educators in helping students learn to think deeply and critically in any setting.




Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Third Edition


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Keep your cool and get the results you want when faced with crucial conversations. This New York Times bestseller and business classic has been fully updated for a world where skilled communication is more important than ever. The book that revolutionized business communications has been updated for today’s workplace. Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation—especially difficult ones—leads to the results you want. Written in an engaging and witty style, the book teaches readers how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up or clam up, and it offers powerful skills for mastering high-stakes conversations, regardless of the topic or person. This new edition addresses issues that have arisen in recent years. You’ll learn how to: Respond when someone initiates a crucial conversation with you Identify and address the lag time between identifying a problem and discussing it Communicate more effectively across digital mediums When stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong, you have three choices: Avoid a crucial conversation and suffer the consequences; handle the conversation poorly and suffer the consequences; or apply the lessons and strategies of Crucial Conversations and improve relationships and results. Whether they take place at work or at home, with your coworkers or your spouse, crucial conversations have a profound impact on your career, your happiness, and your future. With the skills you learn in this book, you'll never have to worry about the outcome of a crucial conversation again.




Professional Development, Reflection and Decision-Making in Nursing and Healthcare


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This essential text brings together in one place the inextricably linked concepts of professional development, reflective practice and decision-making. Fully updated and revised throughout, the new edition of this easy-to-follow, jargon-free title is targeted at nursing and healthcare practitioners and nursing students, providing clear guidance to help the reader think critically about their practice, work within professional boundaries, be accountable for their actions, and plan for their future.




Staff Educator’s Guide to Professional Development: Assessing and Enhancing Nurse Competency


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We all know how important it is to help professional nurses maintain and grow their competence in order to provide excellent care for the people they serve, but when busy nurse educators and development specialists are often just trying to “put out the next fire”, they need a concise, just-in-time aid to help make competency assessments and educational delivery programs successful for their nurses. From assessing and evaluating competency, to developing creative learning activities, to revising large educational programs, Staff Educator’s Guide to Nursing Competences book explores the nuts and bolts of nursing professional development practice (along with some theory) related to promoting competency. Whether you’re new to leading assessment and development programs or a seasoned nursing staff development specialist, this book will help you: Design, develop, and analyze professional development activities Implement professional development activities Evaluate and individual’s growth Evaluate an education program’s performance Understand ethical and legal consideration Use technology to enhance learning activities




Continuing Professional Development in Nursing


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This handbook offers practical guidance for everyone involved in professional development. Expert advice is provided on relevant aspects of nursing practice such as reflective practice and clinical supervision.







The Path to Stress-Free Nursing Professional Development


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Practical advice to solve your most common problems "How do I engage resistant learners?" "How can I cover all the mandatory topics while getting orientation done faster?" "How do I show that my education and training programs have a link to job performance and patient outcomes?" Sound familiar? These are some of the most ever present challenges for staff development professionals and unit-based educators. The Path to Stress-Free Nursing Professional Development offers quick, practical advice from experts who have been there. Author and veteran nursing professional Adrianne E. Avillion, DEd, RN, and contributing author Barbara A. Brunt, MA, MN, RN-BC, NE-BC, condense their years of knowledge and experience into easy-to- implement strategies that will guide you through your NPD efforts -- no matter your background or experience -- reducing your stress, saving time, and making your job easier. Unlike anything else on the market, this book gives you instant solutions and quick tips you can use immediately. Benefits: * Priceless teaching tips from top nursing educators practicing in the field today * Handy, concise format that allows for quick topic lookup * Complements any staff development program * Perfect resource for new educators or unit-based trainers who need no-nonsense information fast Topics: Education and Training Tips to facilitate orientation, deal with disruptive learners, enhance attendance, and more! Communication Practical strategies to resolve conflict, improve communication, and reduce the incidence of horizontal violence. Nurturing the professional growth and development of nursing professional development (NPD) specialists Career advancement strategies, tips for taking the professional development certification exam, practical suggestions for writing for publication, and additional ideas for NPD professional growth. NPD Administrative Issues Tips for writing NPD job descriptions, how to differentiate between