Evidence-Based Approaches for the Nurse Educator

Catalog description

This course is designed to help students develop the role and responsibilities of an evidence-based nurse educator. Students develop skills in locating, analyzing, integrating, and sharing evidence, and explore different models for promoting evidence-based practice. An emphasis on using best practices to create classroom, laboratory, and clinical teaching environments that facilitate learning and the achievement of desired cognitive, affective, and psychomotor outcomes is promoted. Strategies for teaching undergraduate/pre-licensure students to address quality safety guidelines in nursing are highlighted. Reflective practice, the spirit of inquiry, and continuous quality improvement is fostered. Students plan for continuing their own professional development as nurse educators, and to address the scholarship of academia.