You CAN Teach Med-Surg Nursing!

Mary A. Miller, RN, MSN, CCRN, is Clinical Nursing Instructor at Marymount University School of Nursing, Alexandria, Virginia. She has extensive experience in both practise and academia with over 40 years of experience as a Medical-Surgical and Critical Care Nurse in a variety of clinical settings. She has also served as both Full-Time and Adjunct faculty for the past ten years, holding positions such as Lead Professor in the RN to BSN programme and Chair of the Academic Standards Committee on Informatics. Ms. Miller has effectively mentored many students and adjunct faculty through the challenging clinical teaching/learning experience and has developed numerous instructional tools, interactive student exercises and time-tested evaluation methodologies to help students excel in their clinical rotations and make a successful transition to professional practise. Deborah Wirwicz, BSN, MSNEd, is Clinical Nursing Instructor at Trinity University in Washington, DC. She has held numerous clinical and leadership positions in Critical Care and Medical-Surgical Nursing over the past 20 years.

Part 1: Introduction to the role of the medical-surgical clinical nursing instructor
1. Instructor Contracts and Evaluations
2. Effective Student Evaluations
3. Learning Requirements and Syllabus Preparation
4. First day of Clinical Including Forms, Expectations, and Math Assessment





Part 2: Basics of clinical teaching and student evaluation
5. Review and Assessment of Basic Skills
6. Medications
7. Admission Assessments
8. Critical Thinking Applied to IV Therapy, Medications, and Laboratory Values
9. Preoperative, Intraoperative, and Postoperative Nursing Responsibilities
10. Delegation and Management Styles and Concepts





Part 3: Bringing theory to the clinical setting: teaching the body systems
11. The Neurological System and Assessments
12. The Cardiac System and Assessments
13. The Respiratory System and Assessments
14. The Gastrointestinal System, Assessments, and Treatment
15. The Urinary System and Assessments
16. The Musculoskeletal and Integumentary Systems



Part 4: The final evaluation, final conferences, grading, and make-up assignments
17. Final Quiz and Final Clinical Evaluations
18. Final Clinical Class Topics
19. Make-Up Assignments, Ethical Questions, and Critical Thinking Exercises