Curriculum
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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NURS 626 — Masters Nursing Education Practicum I
Each student will be assigned an expert nursing educator for each setting who meets specified criteria for the mentoring role. Clinical settings may vary according to the student's interests, goals, and career objectives. Emphasis is placed on demonstration of mastery of theoretical course work through a capstone project.
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NURS 627 — Masters Nursing Education Practicum II
This course focuses on the teaching role of the contemporary nurse educator in the higher education classroom setting. Each student will be assigned an expert nursing educator for each practicum site who meets specified criteria for the mentoring role. Emphasis is placed on demonstration of mastery of theoretical course work through a capstone project. Student will complete 90 hours per each term in this practicum. A teaching portfolio will be required at the end of the term containing, but not limited to, the documentation of practicum criteria, student learning, objectives, teaching activities with lesson plans, and formative and summative mentor evaluations.
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NURS 669 — Professional Seminar for Advanced Nursing Practice
This required course is the application and integration of the role and competencies of the MSN prepared Nurse with advanced nursing knowledge who will seek employment in a diversity of advanced practice roles. The roles of the MSN graduate as clinician, educator, researcher, expert, and leader are presented and explored. Interpretation and application of professional issues, practice issues, legislative issues, certification issues, insurance issues, legal issues, and ethical conflict resolution in advanced nursing practice are explored, and integrated into a model for interdisciplinary collaborative practice. Emphasis will be on preparing the graduating MSN prepared nurse for practice and of assuming new professional advanced practice roles. Last, all MSN graduates must establish competency in oral and written communication skills as a graduation outcome.
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