R Sudha MSc (N) MA (CC and E) MBA (EM) PG Dip in V and VA PhD (Pursuing)
Professor and Vice Principal MA Chidambaram College of Nursing Voluntary Health Services
Chennai, Tamil Nadu,
India
7Preface
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Nursing Education: Principles and Concepts
First Edition: 2013
9789350253793
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5Dedicated to
My Teachers and Nursing Profession
It gives me an immense pleasure to introduce a textbook on nursing education. Indeed, I feel happy to write a textbook on nursing education. I always think and be proud of our profession where we have the opportunity to serve the humanity. Everyone accepts the demand for nurses globally. It is the responsibility of the society especially the nursing regulatory mechanisms to monitor the preparation of nurses to meet the societal and global demand. The nurse educators are accountable to this cause and ultimately held responsible for the preparation of nurses.
Nursing education as a subject has to be studied for two purposes that is to understand what nursing education is and to teach and enhance the teaching-learning process for learning other nursing subjects. A teacher who understands the concept of teaching and learning and who has the attitude to teach will automatically develop skill in teaching. A student who understands the basic concept of learning will learn quickly.
With this concept and belief, this textbook is prepared to share and communicate the principles of nursing education. This book will be of great use to undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students who can easily follow and understand the concepts as it is organized sequentially and written in a simple language. This book will also be a good reference book for the nursing teachers who have the passion to teach and educate the nursing students and the nurses.
I would appreciate the readers for their suggestions and comments for the improvement of the content of the book.
R Sudha
9Acknowledgments
Gratitude is the best attitude. An individual alone cannot accomplish any task. It is the help, support and encouragement of people which helps him/her to accomplish a task.
It is my duty to express thanks to Mr R Jayanandan, Senior Author Coordinator, Chennai Branch, Tamil Nadu, India who inspired me to write text on nursing.
I express my sincere thanks to Mrs Uma Sundar MSc (N), who with our first project helped me to create confidence in writing.
I take immense pleasure to express my deep sense of gratitude to my parents Mr P Radhakrishnan, EE, TAHDCO and Mrs R Rajalakshmi for their selfless help and support in all my endeavors. I also thank my husband Mr C Arumugam and my daughters, AS Neya and AS Dhaya for their love, tolerance and understanding which helped me to succeed in my career.
I express my sincere thanks to Shri Jitendar P Vij (Chairman and Managing Director), Mr Tarun Duneja (Director-Publishing), M/s Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India, and his team for their effort in publishing the book.