Skills in Clinical Nursing, 2nd Edition

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The 2nd edition of Skills in Clinical Nursing provides a primary Australian resource, preparing undergraduate nursing students to become skills-competent nurses, as well as providing practicing nurses with a highly relevant reference. The text acts as a visual manual, helping students learn to link theory to practice, developing their clinical skills and underpinning industry requirements.

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Dr Audrey Berman received her BSN from the University of California, San Francisco. She later returned to that campus to obtain her MS in physiological nursing and her PhD in nursing. She worked in oncology at Samuel Merritt Hospital prior to beginning her teaching career at Samuel Merritt Hospital School of Nursing in 1976. As a faculty member, she participated in the transition of that program into a baccalaureate degree and in the development of the Master of Science and Doctor of Nursing Practice programs. Over the years, she has taught a variety of medical-surgical nursing courses in the pre-licensure programs on three campuses. She served as the Dean of Nursing at Samuel Merritt University from 2004 to 2019 and was the 2014-2016 president of the California Association of Colleges of Nursing.

Dr Berman is a member of the American Nurses Association and Sigma Theta Tau and is a site visitor for the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. She has twice participated as an NCLEX-RN item writer for the National Council of State Boards of Nursing. She has presented locally, nationally and internationally on topics related to nursing education, breast cancer and technology in health care.

Dr Shirlee J. Snyder graduated from Columbia Hospital School of Nursing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and subsequently received a Bachelor of Science in nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Because of an interest in cardiac nursing and teaching, she earned a Master of Science in nursing with a minor in cardiovascular clinical specialist and teaching from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. A move to California resulted in becoming a faculty member at Samuel Merritt Hospital School of Nursing in Oakland. Shirlee was fortunate to be involved in the phasing out of the diploma and ADN programs and development of a baccalaureate intercollegiate nursing program. She held numerous positions during her 15-year tenure at Samuel Merritt College, including curriculum coordinator, assistant director-instruction, Dean of Instruction and Associate Dean of the Intercollegiate Nursing Program. She is an associate professor alumnus at Samuel Merritt College. Her interest and experiences in nursing education resulted in Shirlee obtaining a Doctorate of Education focused on curriculum and instruction from the University of San Francisco.

In 2003, Dr Snyder returned to baccalaureate nursing education. She embraced the opportunity to be one of the nursing faculty, teaching the first nursing class in the baccalaureate nursing program at the first state college in Nevada, which opened in 2002.

From 2008 to 2012, she was the dean of the School of Nursing at Nevada State College in Henderson, Nevada. She is currently retired.

Tracy Levett-Jones is a Distinguished Professor and Head of School in the School of Nursing & Midwifery at the University of Technology Sydney. Her program of research focuses on patient safety, empathy, belongingness, clinical reasoning, and simulation.

Trish Burton PhD, BAppSc (Nurse Education), BSc, DipAppSc (Nursing), RN
Trish Burton is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing, in the College of Health and Biomedicine, at Victoria University. Her nursing background is in adult intensive care, infectious diseases and emergency nursing. In the nurse academic role, Trish has held many course coordination roles at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She has an extensive curriculum development background, and teaches acute care, pharmacology and research.

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