MSN6103 The Nurse Educator Role
Assessment 1
Write a short article about the history and future trends of the nurse educator role. The article will run in a newsletter for nurses and nurse educators, and should be approximately 2 pages long.
In your article, be sure to do the following:
Explain five key historical influences on nursing and nursing education today. Be sure to address why these influences are important and how they have had an impact.
Analyze three trends you believe will impact nursing and nursing education in the future. Explain how those trends relate to what you understand about nursing history.
Support your assertions with credible sources. You can use the Resources in this assessment and conduct additional research in the Capella library.
MSN6103 The Nurse Educator Role
Assessment 2
Create a short (approximately 2 pages) plan reflecting on how the three aspects of the tripartite model of teaching, service, and scholarship could be met for a particular nurse educator position in a context of interest to you.
In your plan, do the following:
Describe the nurse educator role that your plan addresses, as well as any other pertinent details about that role. Be sure to give the role's title and explain the context in which that role works.
Analyze the teaching, service, and scholarship expectations for that role as you understand them, and how those expectations fit with the role.
Identify publications, journals, and conferences that could be a fit for the scholarship conducted in this role. Explain the kinds of scholarship that would be a good fit for person in this role and with this expertise.
Generate a plan that could be used by a person in this role for meeting each of the expectations you analyzed.
Analyze additional qualifications that you believe are needed for this role (additional education, certifications, skills, and so on), explaining why they are necessary.
Analyze the qualifications and areas of expertise related to this role that would facilitate serving as a change agent.
MSN6103 The Nurse Educator Role
Assessment 3
For this assessment, develop your own nurse educator philosophy statement. Identify your beliefs and values regarding the adult learner, learning environment, and teaching strategies and applicable learning theories that you will use as an educator. Address how this philosophy will guide you in the tripartite roles of a nurse educator—how it will guide your teaching, scholarship, and service. Support your philosophy with your knowledge of historical events that are pertinent to your work. In addition, identify the competencies that you see as critical to your role.
In sum, your philosophy statement should guide your practice as a nurse educator.
Your educator philosophy statement should do the following:
Identify the area of nursing education or the area in health care in which you will apply your MSN, education specialization skills, and knowledge.
Formulate your nurse educator philosophy statement, which should comprise your beliefs and values regarding the adult learner, learning environment, and teaching strategies and applicable learning theories that you will use as an educator.
Apply your philosophy statement to each of the tripartite roles of the nurse educator. What does your philosophy mean for your approach to teaching, scholarship, and service? As you discuss the role of teacher, be sure to address any theories (adult learning theory, learner-center education, and others) that shape your approach as an educator.
Analyze the relationship of significant historical events that have shaped the role you seek to fill.
Analyze the most essential nurse educator competencies necessary for this MSN-prepared nurse educator. Explain why you selected the competencies you did.
Conclude with a summary.
MSN6103 The Nurse Educator Role
Assessment 4
Write a 6–8-page professional development plan for your career as an MSN-prepared nurse. The professional development plan should include the following:
Introduction: A brief introductory paragraph that clearly states the purpose of the paper.
Area of focus: A description of your specific area of focus in nursing education, the position that you wish to obtain, and the educator competencies that you will need as an MSN-prepared nurse.
Professional goals: A statement of your specific professional goals (a minimum of three) and discussion of their relationship to your nurse educator philosophy.
Influences: A brief description of any additional forces (social, economic, political, or institutional) that may influence your nursing education role.
Analysis: An analysis of how you will carry out scholarship activities as an MSN-prepared nurse and a specific plan for scholarship based on a model.
Leadership role: A discussion of specific ways (a minimum of two) that you will develop a leadership role in your chosen area of focus.
Development plan: Specific plans for professional growth and any additional education, certifications, or training to be acquired.
Reflection: A reflection in a concluding paragraph on your abilities to meet goals and achieve your professional development plan and ethical practice.
MSN6103 The Nurse Educator Role
Assessment 5
Preparation
In this assessment, you will create a PowerPoint presentation of 12–20 slides that you could use to teach a group about a legal or ethical issue related to nursing or nursing education. To do so, you will select a case from the Nursing Education Legal and Ethical Scenarios media piece, linked in the Resources under the Capella Multimedia heading to focus on.
Review the case and take time to reflect on the change that needs to occur and the group that you will be addressing.
Research what the group needs to know to improve the legal or ethical situation that has occurred.
Use a minimum of seven references, of which at least five should come from peer-reviewed sources.
As you conduct research, synthesize information that will be needed to evoke a change in the situation.?
Instructions
Create a 12–20 slide PowerPoint presentation that you would use to teach about the legal or ethical situation and to create change related to that situation.
Note: You must include 2–4 context slides. These are additional slides that provide contextual information for this assessment. Follow the guidelines for the two types of slides below.
Presentation Slides
For your 12–20 slide presentation:
Choose an appropriate theme and style.
Include an introductory slide that identifies the problem and your role.
Use slides to convey the important information and understandings to the group.
Provide a summary slide that reiterates the important points of the presentation.
Provide a slide that offers resources for the group after the teaching/learning experience.
Include a slide with any references used in preparing the PowerPoint.
Use the speaker's notes feature to provide any additional information that you would include in the presentation. This should include any cultural sensitivity aspects and how the content is expected to make a change regarding the issue being addressed.
Context Slides
For the 2–4 contextual slides (which are not considered part of the actual presentation but rather should contain information that you as a presenter would need to consider in your preparation and presentation):
Discuss any specific cultural and/or diversity aspects of the presentation that could be significant in the learning process. Include references and sources used to inform this.
Analyze how the presentation may result in a significant change in the identified environment. Cite any relevant sources.
Develop specific plans for how you might stay informed about the legal or ethical issue that was your focus. What resources could you use to learn about changes or developments that would impact your work?
