Curriculum
This curriculum includes:
Course Descriptions
NURS 597 — Clinical and Didactic Teaching Methods in Nursing Education
The purpose of this course it to prepare the prospective Nurse faculty with the foundational principles and skills necessary for didactic teaching in the classroom and for supervision in clinical settings. Educational theories and instructional methods will be explored to enhance learning among traditional and non-traditional student populations in differing types of programs within the higher education environment.
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NURS 598 — Teaching Critical Thinking and Clinical Decision-Making in Nursing
This course is designed to prepare the prospective nurse faculty with theoretical principles, process, and instructional skills to promote critical thinking that result in appropriate clinical decision-making when interacting with student nurses in the classroom and clinical settings. Techniques for the facilitation of learning will be emphasized.
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NURS 599 — Curriculum Design, Measurement, and Evaluation in Nursing Education
This course offers the student practical applications in the design and assessment of individual courses within the design of programmatic nursing curricula including development of learning objectives and teaching strategies to achieve programmatic learning outcomes, systematic test construction using multiple-choice format and alternative formats, and basic test statistics.
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NURS 612 — The Nursing Academic in the Changing Higher Education Environment
This course will address the basic concepts of higher education environments. The concepts of culture and organizational design, productivity, academic economics, academic freedom, networking & collaboration, rights and responsibilities, policy and protocols, continuing education, and the tenure process will be explored.
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NURS 613 — The Role and Responsibilities of the Nursing Professor
Academic policies, protocols, and legal aspects of education will be explored. Campus relationships, prospective & current student issues as well as laws affecting students will be examined. Situational events that occur in the classroom and clinical settings will be highlighted for students to research, discuss and develop a format for applying case law to student faculty issues.
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NURS 614 — Technologies for Nursing Education and Practice
The purpose of this course it to expand on technology skills that support the nurse educator in the virtual learning environment. This course prepares the student educator with the skills to utilize available technology for the development of on-line course work for the academic setting and program development for staff and patient education and the preparation community outreach programs.
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