Accompanied by an online instructor's resource manual with downloadable PowerPoint slides and accompanying notes! Essentials of Patient Education, based on Susan B. Bastable's best-selling Nurse as Educator: Principles of Teaching and Learning for Nursing Practice, Second Edition, prepares nurses for their ever-increasing roles in patient teaching, health education, and health promotion. This application-based text addresses the needs and characteristics of the learner and discusses appropriate instructional approaches, as well as providing nurses and nursing students with a thorough comprehension of and the skills necessary in the teaching and learning process.