An Educator's Guide to Humanizing Nursing Education

An Educator's Guide to Humanizing Nursing Education

Delivers specific guidelines for implementing Human Caring within teaching practices along with a wealth of examples Grounded in the belief that translating Caring Science within teaching practices will humanize nursing education, this important book emphasizes the ways in which nurse educators can translate Human Caring and Caritas to establish authentic caring pedagogical relationships with their students. It aims to strengthen Human Caring as the basis for humanistic teaching and to infuse the learning environment with caring practices for both students and educators. The work provides an antidote for the continuous dominant biomedical and behavioral paradigm in nursing education. It includes specific guidelines for implementing Human Caring ethics, ontology, and epistemology throughout the teaching/learning community and describes how to translate caring values and assumptions into living Caritas as nurse educators' moral ideal and praxis of authentic caring pedagogical relationships. Pragmatic examples provided by administrators, educators, and students illustrate the value of a humanistic Caring Science paradigm for nursing education and caring praxis. KEY FEATURES: • Includes exemplars of educators' lived teaching experiences guided by a caring pedagogical praxis • Provides examples of students' lived learning experiences within a caring teaching environment • Offers reflective exercises for nurse educators to enhance their caring pedagogical relationships with students • Provides guided caring artistic activities to promote ways of knowing, doing, being, and becoming in nursing education • Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers