The New Nurse Educator: Launching an Engaging Career is an essential reference designed to assist new nursing faculty in uncovering meaning in their careers, examining student relationships, and to better understand teaching practices for nursing education. This text contains popular and professional literature, nurse educator experiences, stories, quotes, and discussion questions. The New Nurse Educator: Launching an Engaging Career is an ideal resource for all nursing educators.

Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
Knowing the Self as Teacher	p. 1
Then and Now: A Call to Pause	p. 3
Learning and Teaching	p. 3
A Moment in Time	p. 4
Pauses at Departure and Arrival	p. 5
You Are Yourself	p. 7
References	p. 9
Honoring the Present in the Best and Worst Year	p. 11
Quarrying the First-Year Challenges	p. 12
Honoring the Present and Renewing its Nobility	p. 15
Where Have I Been as Teacher?	p. 17
Where Am I Going as Teacher?	p. 18
The Educator Moves Inside	p. 20
References	p. 23
"As If": More of That First Year	p. 25
Appeal of the Educator Role	p. 26
Preparing to Teach	p. 28
Getting Started: Before the First Class Meeting	p. 30
Relationships with Teaching Colleagues	p. 34
Conclusion	p. 36
References	p. 36
Scott's Spirit on Lassen Peak: Finding the Spirit That Sustains You	p. 37
Lesson from Lassen Peak	p. 38
Learning as My Sustaining Spirit	p. 39
What I Have Learned About Learning	p. 40
Find the Spirit That Sustains You	p. 45
References	p. 46
The Rhythm of Education: Dr. Harriet Werley, Thank You for Teaching Me	p. 47
Thank You for Teaching Me	p. 47
Rhythm of Staccato	p. 48
Rhythm of Tapestry	p. 52
Rhythm of Stillness	p. 54
References	p. 55
Relationships with Students	p. 57
How Can the Students Help Us Teach?	p. 59
Who Do the Students Say That They Are?	p. 60
The Nurse Educator: What Is Most Important?	p. 61
About Being a New Nurse Educator	p. 70
Beyond Balance	p. 73
References	p. 74
Presence with Students: Posing Interest, Not Merely Paying Attention	p. 75
Posing Interest as a Clinical Teacher: An Early Lesson	p. 76
Posing Interest as a Classroom Teacher	p. 78
Showing Up and Circulating	p. 80
Getting Inside the Students' Heads	p. 83
"A Friend of Your Mind" and Namaste	p. 85
References	p. 85
Teaching Practices That I Am Practicing	p. 87
Clinical Teaching is Where the Magic Lies	p. 89
Clinical Education as the Pinnacle of Complexity	p. 90
Preparing for Departure	p. 92
In Flight	p. 94
Conclusion	p. 99
Questions to Ponder	p. 99
References	p. 100
The Novel: "Listen Her and She Will Show Us Everything"	p. 101
Linking Novels and Human Responses	p. 102
Repositioning Novel Reading in Nursing Education	p. 104
Novel Reading: Beyond "Busywork" and "Boring"	p. 105
"Listen Her and She Will Show Us Everything"	p. 109
Questions to Ponder	p. 110
References	p. 110
The Students Co-Construct the Classroom	p. 111
Similar Experiences, But What Makes Them Different?	p. 112
Relentless Preparation	p. 114
Take a Break	p. 116
Students and Course Assignments Co-Construct the Classroom	p. 116
Conclusion	p. 119
Questions to Ponder	p. 120
References	p. 120
Creative Projects: "Could You Please Tell Us What You're Looking For?"	p. 121
A Newbie's Anemic Attempts	p. 122
What I've Discovered	p. 123
Creativity as a Concept	p. 125
Beginning to Make it a Practice	p. 126
Conclusion	p. 130
Questions to Ponder	p. 130
References	p. 131
Nursing Education as Liberal Education	p. 133
Teaching Life, Not Teaching Work	p. 135
Beyond Compliance in Health Care	p. 135
Shadow Side of Nursing Education	p. 138
Nursing Education as Liberal Education	p. 142
In Procession: Where is it Leading Us?	p. 152
References	p. 153
Afterword: The Musicality of Teaching: More Dreams for the Future than Memories of the Past	p. 155
The Musicality of Teaching	p. 155
Building Bridges	p. 157
References	p. 159
Index	p. 161
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