Faculty Role Practicum in Academic and Practice Settings

Catalog description

This course is designed to engage students in understanding the essentials for success as nurse educators in an academic or nursing professional development setting. Students will engage in the development, implementation, and evaluation of innovative educational programming to enhance student success in the acquisition of knowledge, application in practice, and development in professional nursing roles. Students will assess the learning needs of the population focusing on and identify gaps in knowledge. Students will acquire a knowledge base with research evidence that is supported by theoretical principles in their learning of a variety of teaching strategies with practical application in the teaching of nursing. Learning experiences will be designed for classroom and clinical settings as well as for the virtual environments of college lab, simulation, and online learning. Special emphasis will be paid to engaging students in the use of innovations in the teaching of nursing.