NUR-6340 Healthcare Professional Precepting: Ensuring Career Success

This course focuses on teaching and learning in the clinical learning environment. The course demonstrates how a preceptor-preceptee model can facilitate retention, satisfaction, and clinical judgment in healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals in the preceptor role are enabled to address the needs of preceptees who are new to a practice or experiencing a different practice environment. Precepting is explored as a mutually reflective system that benefits the preceptor, the preceptee, and the healthcare organization.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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NUR-6300 Theoretical Foundations and Instructional Strategies in Nursing Education

This course is designed to provide the foundation for understanding theories, philosophies, and strategies of teaching and learning that influence nursing education. The course also explores ethical and legal issues in nursing education. This course should be scheduled as the first of the five courses in the Nurse Educator specialty area. The nursing education Practicums must be scheduled last in the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree nurse educator program.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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NUR-7100 Testing, Assessment, and Evaluation

Course emphasis is on preparing teachers in nursing curricula to focus on learning outcomes. The concepts of measurement and evaluation are examined as the basis for studying how instruction, testing, assessment, and evaluation of student learning are interrelated. Formative, summative, qualitative, and quantitative assessment methodologies are applied to evaluate instruction and learning in various educational settings.

Advisory: Courses equivalent to NUR-6300: Theoretical Foundations and Instructional Strategies in Nursing Education and NUR-7000: Curriculum Theory and Development in Nursing Education are required to be successful in NUR-7100. Students are responsible for having acquired this knowledge prior to registering for NUR-7100.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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