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NUR646 Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 1 Discussion

DQ1 Compare the difference between a traditional faculty role versus the online faculty role. How are the expectations different for each role? What steps will you need to prepare to be successful in each?

DQ2 Referring to the National League of Nursing's (NLN) Nurse Educator Competencies, choose one competency and describe how you will achieve this competency in your nurse educator role.

 

NUR646 Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 2 Discussion

DQ1 Select two nursing theories and explain how they can be applied in nursing education. How can the theories aid in your teaching practices including clinical or patient specific experiences?

DQ2 Search the literature and find an example of a research study that uses an educational theory in a nursing education study. Does the study appear to use the theory appropriately? How does the research contribute to understanding of the theory? Be sure to cite the article.

 

NUR646 Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 3 Discussion

DQ1 Discuss an experience working with a diverse patient or student population or students with diverse learning needs. Using evidence-based literature, develop a strategy to increase the success of these students in a classroom setting.

DQ2 Do you think it is practical and relevant to use a learning style inventory with patients or students in your selected area of education? Support your response with literature.

 

NUR646 Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 4 Discussion

DQ1 What culture and diversity issues have you experienced when working with current student or patient populations? What strategies do nurse educators use to bridge culture and diversity barriers? How do these strategies aim to create a positive learning environment

DQ2 Choose an experience from your clinical practicum that demonstrates engagement and teaching strategies utilized to teach clinical experience in other education setting. How could you implement engagement or teaching strategies with learning theories to teach students or patients about the experience in a didactic or online classroom?

 

 

 

NUR646 Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 5 Discussion

DQ1 Consider a time as a student, in which you experienced a positive learning environment. What made the experience a quality learning environment? Why? Support your choice with current literature.

DQ2 In nursing, there are several diverse "physical learning environments.” Describe three strategies a nursing faculty utilizes to ensure a positive student learning experience within a variety of settings.

 

NUR646 Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 6 Discussion

DQ1 Choose three teaching strategies that you feel the most comfortable using. Explain why you think you are most comfortable with this strategy? Discuss how you think these teaching strategies are classified according to Bloom's Revised Taxonomy.

DQ2 Choose an experience from your clinical practicum that you feel comfortable teaching. Using Bloom's Revised Taxonomy, "insert objective writing resource,” and the teaching strategies learned in this topic, create three learning objectives for the topic you chose. Provide feedback on your classmates’ objectives as your discussion response.

 

NUR646 Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 7 Discussion

DQ1 How can nurse educators encourage critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgement in clinical education and the traditional classroom or clinical setting? How can you differentiate these instruction pieces for various educational or clinical settings?

DQ2 What are common barriers when teaching critical thinking skills? What strategies can nursing educators use to better promote critical thinking skills in students?

 

NUR646 Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 8 Discussion

DQ1 Identify two to three new learning technologies in nursing education. As a nurse educator, discuss how you would incorporate these technologies into the curriculum?

DQ2 How can educator's best assess student's learning needs and match those needs with innovative teaching technologies? Discuss the role of evaluating evidence and best practices when selecting new technologies to integrate into the learning environment.

 

 

 

NUR646 Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 1 Assignment  

Nurse Educator Electronic Portfolio

For this program, you will be creating a working electronic portfolio that can be utilized when trying to obtain a position as a nurse educator. The electronic portfolio will encompass several artifacts from your practicum courses. Use the "Nurse Educator Electronic Portfolio," resource to guide you in collecting the required artifacts for this. You will submit the completed electronic portfolio in NUR-665E.

Nurse Educator Electronic Portfolio

Throughout the seminar course, you will develop a professional electronic portfolio that will be used for personal reflection and growth; and for employment applications and interviews upon completion of the program.

As you complete various portions of the seminar, you should identify and incorporate artifacts into your portfolios to demonstrate your accomplishments.

The electronic portfolio should include the following:

1.            Introductory statement to your portfolio

2.            Professional Resume/CV

3.            Nurse Educator Teaching Philosophy

4.            Written Objectives

5.            Lesson Plan

6.            One additional artifact that demonstrates mastery of the course. This could possibly be pulled from your clinical experience

In addition, you will need to include explanations of mastery for each artifact.

Students will submit their completed portfolios at the end of the course.

Students can use any one of a number of free electronic portfolio software programs. Some recommendations include the following:

•             Google Sites   https://sites.google.com/

•             Evernote         https://evernote.com/

•             Three Ring     https://threering.com/

•             Weebly           https://www.weebly.com/

When selecting a program, be sure it is one that can be marked or set as ‘private’ so that only you can allow access to the content. You will be asked to submit your e-folio for review periodically throughout the program by providing your instructor with the URL link.

 

 

 

 

NUR646 Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 1 Assignment  

Practicum Goals

This assignment requires your collaboration with the course faculty and practicum preceptor early on to establish goals for successful completion of your practicum requirements.

Develop a 250-500-word narrative for completing your practice hours and how objectives will be met. Include the following in your narrative:

Five practicum goals that relate to course objectives, course deliverables, your personal and professional development needs, and your practicum setting.

A proposed schedule to meet your goals and the 50 required practicum hours you must accumulate during this course.

A description of any challenges you expect to encounter, and strategies to help you overcome these challenges.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

 

NUR646 Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 2 Assignment  

Teaching Philosophy Statement

The purpose of this assignment is to develop your personal teaching philosophy statement. This will be included in your e-portfolio to be submitted at the end of this course.

Begin by researching a developed teaching philosophy and use the information to shape your own philosophy.

In 250-500 words, develop a personal teaching philosophy statement that includes your beliefs on the purpose of education, how students learn, how your beliefs facilitate learning, the role of the nurse educator, and how you plan to implement this philosophy to grow as an educator as you seek to integrate the nurse educator competencies into your professional practice.

APA style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

 

NUR646 Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 3 Assignment  

SBAR Clinical Log

Complete the "SBAR Clinical Log" to document your total clinical hours completed to date, a description of observations and tasking completed, and additional comments regarding your practicum Experience. You will also complete the "SBAR," section of the form related to a patient you have assessed during your clinical experience thus far.

Clinical Practicum Experience
Total Clinical Hours completed to date:
Description of Observations and Tasks during the Practicum Experience
Student Comments on Practicum experience

 

SBAR Complete the "SBAR," related to a patient you have assessed during your clinical experience thus far.
Situation
Background
Assessment
Recommendation
References

 

NUR646 Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 5 Assignment  

Learning Environment Observation

During your professional career as a nurse educator, you will be asked to teach in various learning environments; including traditional classroom, online, and clinical.

The purpose of this assignment is to provide knowledge of establishing an environment that promotes student participation, engagement, and optimal student outcomes.

The classroom can be a traditional or clinical setting and be directed at students, nurses, or patients.

Using the "ELEOT Reference Guide" complete the "Effective Learning Environments Observation Tool (ELEOT).”

Write a 500-750 word summary of the observation. Include the following in your summary.

Discuss the results of the ELEOT and include the form as an appendix in your paper.

Discuss how the instructor maintained and managed the learning environment.

Discuss the various engagement and learning strategies that were used and how they could be implemented in different learning environments including traditional and non-traditional environments.

Discuss how you could implement some these strategies into your own classroom.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

 

NUR646 Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 6 Assignment  

SBAR Clinical Log

Complete the "SBAR Clinical Log" to document your total clinical hours completed to date, a description of observations and tasking completed, and additional comments regarding your practicum Experience. You will also complete the "SBAR," section of the form related to a patient you have assessed during your clinical experience thus far.

Clinical Practicum Experience
Total Clinical Hours completed to date:
Description of Observations and Tasks during the Practicum Experience
Student Comments on Practicum experience

 

SBAR Complete the "SBAR," related to a patient you have assessed during your clinical experience thus far.
Situation
Background
Assessment
Recommendation
References

 

NUR646 Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 7 Assignment  

Benchmark -Nurse Educator Lesson Plan

As a nurse educator, you will be responsible for creating effective lessons for various settings. Choose a teaching and learning experience from your clinical setting. You may use the clinical experience from your Topic 4 discussion response.

Based on the experience you chose, use the engagement, student learning, and creating effective learning environment strategies that you have learned in this course to develop a lesson plan on similar content for two additional settings (such as an asynchronous online session and teaching a nursing student in the clinical setting, etc.). Use the lesson plan examples found in the topic materials to assist you in creating your lesson outlines.

This assignment will be used as an artifact for your electronic portfolio at the end of the course.

Include the following in your outline:

Lesson Objectives

Timeframe and target environment

Three to four teaching strategies-based on Evidence-Based Practice.

Activities

A summary of the types of assessments you would use in your lesson and why?

Provide rationale for the teaching strategies you implemented into each lesson and why they differ.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

 This assignment benchmarks the following competency:

Master of Science in Nursing with an Emphesis in Education

6.1: Apply instructional strategies grounded in evidence-based practice and learning theory that meet the unique needs of learners in diverse environments.