Curriculum

NURS6000
Principles and Practice of Transformative Nursing Education

This course is designed to provide a theoretical foundation to promote excellence in teaching in both faculty and professional development roles. Principles of adult learning theory, learning styles and preferences are explored with a focus on impact for educational design. Students review various learning domains, teaching theories, approaches for curriculum development and a variety of active learning strategies. An examination of documents that inform curriculum development and regulate nursing practice is performed. The major construct of critical thinking and its importance to nursing is explored. General tactics for the use of simulation, approaches for inter-professional collaboration, and methods for evaluating learner competence when educating nurses are reviewed.

Fall

1 Course Unit

NURS6010
Teaching Nursing in an Academic Environment

This course provides the fundamental knowledge and skills in preparation for teaching in a faculty role in an academic environment. Specific focus is placed on program design, approaches to teaching in didactic, simulation, clinical, and online learning environments, management of didactic and clinical course offerings including effective use of learning management systems, and methods for evaluation of student performance. This course also reviews approaches and resources for working with students who have learning challenges or performance issues.

Spring

Prerequisite: NURS 6000

1 Course Unit

NURS6020
Teaching Professional Nurses in the Practice Environment

This course provides nurses who are considering working in nursing professional development (NPD) in a variety of practice settings, an overview of the practice environment and roles of NPD practitioners. This course is taken after completing the pre-requisite NURS6000 Principles and Practice of Transformative Nursing Education offering, and uses the most current American Nurses Association Nursing Professional Development Scope & Standards of Practice as a foundation for examining roles and responsibilities of nursing professional development practitioners. Content addresses the who, what, where, when, how, and why of nursing professional development including but not limited to principles related to onboarding/orientation, education and role development, competency management, developing collaborative partnerships, translating evidence-to- practice, facilitating quality improvement, and measuring the value of Nursing Professional Development.

Spring

Prerequisite: NURS 6000

1 Course Unit