Nurse Educator Role Development

Catalog description

Students will learn about the history of the nurse as an educator, highlighting feedback loops between theory, research, practice, policy, education, and healthcare as foundational for the growth of the profession. Continual improvement in the quality of the educator, curriculum, instruction, and learning modalities to meet societal healthcare needs is discussed. Sixty-five precepted hours focus on forming one's role identity as a developing educator with content expertise, forming the learning relationship, assessing readiness to learn, scaffolding and preparing content, and exploring teaching-learning practices from the learner perspective. The principle and discipline of overlearning are emphasized.