Teaching Residency for Nurse Educators

Catalog description

A total of 100 hours of clinical practice time is required in the teaching residency which affords the student decision-making opportunities in the specialist nurse educator role through the application of adult educational theories, evidence-based educational concepts and active teaching strategies for learners in a healthcare or academic setting. The specialist nurse educator role will be analyzed and applied in collaboration with a master's or doctoral prepared nurse preceptor with experience teaching students or staff or patients in an academic or other healthcare specialty clinical setting. Evidence-based educational strategies will be developed into a comprehensive teaching-learning plan to engage learners in active learning, implemented, and learning outcomes evaluated. Clinical teaching residency evaluations will be performed by preceptors using evaluation rubrics and outcomes evaluated by course faculty. Clinical residency hours and activities will be entered online by students weekly into Project Concert, monitored and evaluated weekly by course faculty. Nurse educator majors who reside in the state of Tennessee, are required to complete teaching residency hours in a nursing clinical specialty area with a nurse preceptor who has expertise in the specialty and teaching experience with patients, staff or others.