Course Descriptions
Master's Courses
Advanced Practice Nurse Educator Courses
N/NG620 Advanced Nursing Science: Teaching and Curriculum Develoopment for Nurse Educators
This course presents theoretical and evidence-based teaching theories, technologies, and skills. Emphasis is placed upon contemporary approaches to educating nurses in various settings with different learners. Nurse educator roles, theories of learning, curriculum development and research in nursing education are included.
N/NG621A Advanced Nursing Science: Adult Care Theory for Nurse Educators
The focus of this course is on the development of knowledge essential to support advanced clinical appraisal, clinical decision-making, diagnostic reasoning and therapeutic interventions for selected patient populations.
N/NG621B Advanced Nursing Science: Clinical Practice for Nurse Educators
This practicum experience is guided by a master's prepared clinical nurse specialist or nurse educator preceptor. The student is offered opportunities to practice and refine clinical appraisal, diagnostic reasoning and therapeutic interventions for selected patient care problems and begin to develop competency in providing education and leadership in a health care organization. Selected processes, such as clinical pathways, designed to promote positive patient outcomes, and system improvement will be addressed.
N/NG622 Advanced Nursing Science: Advanced Instructional Methods for Nurse Educator
This course provides the student with opportunity to synthesize and apply diverse classroom and clinical teaching strategies. Emphasis is placed on contemporary student-centered instructional methods including problem-based learning, distance education, and other evidence-based approaches.
N/NG623 Advanced Nursing Science: Identifying and Measuring Outcomes for Nurse Educators
The emphasis in this course is on identifying, measuring and achieving outcomes. Content builds upon Year One student and patient outcome evaluation content. Program outcome evaluation, test development and clinical evaluation strategies are included. Processes designed to promote performance improvement in health care and to enhance the graduate’s ability to function effectively in a health care organization are discussed.
N/NG624 Advanced Nursing Science: Systems Leadership for Nurse Educators
This course examines organizational processes and structures designed to promote positive patient and educational outcomes. Grounded in theory and research, this course gives the student the opportunity to acquire knowledge and critical thinking skills necessary to serve in a leadership role in an educational institution or a health care organization.
N/NG625B Advanced Nursing Science: Teaching Practicum for Nurse Educators
This practicum offers the student the opportunity to enact the role of the clinical nurse educator and begin to synthesize leadership concepts into the academic environment. The prerequisite courses provide a theoretical foundation for the application and synthesis activities that characterize clinical learning and leadership in a practice profession. Philosophical and experiential issues specific to clinical instruction and leadership in nursing education are emphasized in seminar discussions.