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Learning Styles in Nursing Education: Integrating Teaching Strategies Into Staff DevelopmentAdrianne E. Avillion, D.Ed, RNAs of June 20, 2014, contact hours for nurses are no longer available with this product.Meet the diverse needs of adult learners.In today's hectic nursing environment where education must be provided quickly, efficiently, and effectively, staff development specialists need to employ a variety of teaching methods to meet the diverse needs of adult learners. Learning Styles in Nursing Education: Integrating Teaching Strategies Into Staff Development delivers strategies to help educators correlate their teaching methods with nurses' various learning styles to achieve optimal educational outcomes.This unique book and CD-ROM provide practical, cutting-edge information to help staff development specialists identify learning and teaching styles and understand various adult teaching/learning philosophies so they can develop and use best practices in education techniques.This resource teaches educators how to:

• Recognize the differences among various learning styles
• Employ strategies to effectively teach adult learners across all learning styles
• Train learners to deal with test anxiety
• Help learners prepare for and successfully deal with testing situations

• Summarize the characteristics of various perspectives of adult education
• Identify teaching strategies that correspond to various perspectives of adult education
• Describe the characteristics of various adult learning styles
• Identify teaching strategies that correspond to various adult learning styles
• Develop education offerings to meet the needs of people with different learning styles
• Explain how to implement education programs to strategically meet the needs of people with different learning styles
• Describe possible research projects to measure the effect of education based on learning styles
• Recall techniques to evaluate the effect of education
• Describe study strategies appropriate to the various learning styles
• Identify strategies to successfully cope with different types of examinations

• Staff development specialists
• Directors of education
• Staff educators
• Nurse managers

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Adrianne E. Avillion, DEd, RN, is the owner of Avillion s Curriculum Design in York, PA, where she specializes in designing continuing education programs for healthcare professionals and freelance medical writing. She also offers consulting services in work redesign, quality improvement, and staff development.She has published extensively, including serving as editor of the first and second editions of The Core Curriculum for Staff Development. Her most recent publications include the first and second editions of A Practical Guide to Staff Development: Tools and Techniques for Effective Education and Designing Nursing Orientation: Evidence-Based Strategies for Effective Programs, both published by HCPro, Inc., and Nurse Entrepreneurship: The Art of Running Your Own Business, published by Creative Health Care Management in Minneapolis, MN. She is also a frequent presenter at conferences and conventions devoted to the specialty of continuing education and staff development.

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