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P A Cravener
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Principles of adult health education.
Patient education is increasingly emphasized by professional and accrediting organizations as a means for maximizing wellness and reducing healthcare costs. In this article, the author presents an overview of issues pertaining to health teaching for adults to improve nurses' effectiveness as health educators. The complex interrelationship of concepts central to a comprehensive, systematic approach to patient and family education is discussed within a patient-centered psychosocial framework.
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Promoting active learning in large lecture classes.
Changes in healthcare systems challenge nurse educators to prepare students for roles as effective care managers in collaborative practice models in hospital and community settings. Instructional strategies that foster student initiative, clinical decision-making skills, and competence with interpersonal communications are presented for a large undergraduate class to be taught by one faculty member.
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Faculty experiences with providing online courses. Thorns among the roses.
This article presents a review of the literature summarizing faculty reports of their experiences with computer-mediated distance education compared with their traditional face-to-face teaching experiences. Both challenges and benefits of distance learning programs contrasted with classroom-based teaching are revealed. Specific difficulties and advantages identified by online faculty were categorized into four broad areas of impact on the teaching/learning experience: (a) faculty workload, (b) access to education, (c) adapting to technology, and (d) instructional quality. Challenges appear to be related predominantly to faculty workloads, new technologies, and online course management. Benefits identified by online educators indicate that computer-mediated distance education has high potential for expanding student access to educational resources, for providing individualized instruction, and for promoting active learning among geographically separated members of learning groups.
Attitude of Health Personnel↗