Post-Master's Nurse Educator Certificate Option

Full Time Course Sequence

Fall Year I

NSG 524 Nursing Education Curriculum Design and Instruction

3

NSG 525 Nursing Education Evaluation

3

Total

6

Spring Year 1

NSG 513  Nursing Education Pedagogies

3

NSG 595 Nursing Education Residency

3

Total

6

Total Hours..............12 Semester Hours
 

 

NSG 513 (currently 592) Nursing Education Pedagogies, NSG 524 Nursing Education Curriculum Design and Instruction, NSG 525 Nursing Education Evaluation, are pre-requisite to the NSG 595 Nursing Education Residency.

NSG 513  Nursing Education Pedagogies (3)

An introduction and immersion with new pedagogies for nursing education that are supported by careful selection of higher education research, scholarship, and experiential practices. Instruction in appropriate application of conventional, critical, feminist, phenomenological and post-modern pedagogies to the teaching of nursing knowledge and clinical practice.

NSG 524 Nursing Education Curriculum Design and Instruction (3)

This course provides the essential elements which define and operationalize the process of curriculum development.  Students will examine curriculum models from the perspective of education and nursing research.  They will analyze factors that influence program development, curriculum design, development, implementation and evaluation.

NSG 525. Nursing Education Evaluation (3)

This course provides an overview of evaluation strategies. Participants will develop evaluation skills emphasizing unit, course, and program outcomes. Models and tools for assessing, evaluating and validating learning will be presented. Teaching will be framed as a continuous-improvement process.

NSG 595. Nursing Education Residency (3)

This practicum is a faculty guided nursing education practicum for application and synthesis of the nurse educator role in academia or in staff development in health care institutions. Students will assess the need for, design, implement, and evaluate a classroom or clinical instructional module under the direction of a selected nurse faculty mentor.