The Clinical Faculty Complete Field Guide
The Clinical Faculty Complete Field Guide is a practical resource for nursing clinical instructors, offering 69 chapters of ready-to-use tools, scripts, and evidence-based strategies for teaching, supervising, and evaluating nursing students throughout the clinical rotation — from Day 1 orientation through end-of-semester evaluation.
The Clinical Faculty Complete Field Guide is a 69-chapter practical reference for nursing clinical instructors — the faculty members who supervise a full group of students across a unit, rather than precepting one student one-on-one. It's built specifically to close a gap the book names directly: being an excellent clinician doesn't automatically make someone an excellent clinical teacher, and most instructors get handed the role with little formal preparation for it.
The book covers the complete arc of a clinical rotation — pre-semester preparation, Day 1, clinical teaching and coaching frameworks, supervision and patient safety, evaluation and feedback, end-of-rotation closure, and the harder parts of the role: unsafe practice, academic integrity, conflict, and recognizing a student mental health crisis. It also covers inclusive teaching, HIPAA and compliance, specialty and high-risk settings, and more current topics like AI tools in clinical practice and simulation as a substitute for traditional clinical hours — closing with a section on the instructor's own ongoing development.
What distinguishes it structurally: every chapter ends with a ready-to-use tool — a checklist, script, or worksheet — rather than staying theoretical, and every recommendation is checked against nursing education research concentrated in 2023–2026, with shaded "evidence notes" showing readers exactly what's behind a given piece of guidance, including an honest account of where the evidence is thin. All 69 tools are also available digitally as editable files through a companion site and app, so nothing stays trapped on a printed page.
