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NUR665E Nursing Education Practicum

Week 1 Discussion

Identify three evidence-based teaching strategies with which you are familiar and explain how you plan to implement them in your practicum setting. Include one advantage and one limitation for each strategy you describe. Include at least two scholarly sources to support your position.

 

NUR665E Nursing Education Practicum

Week 2 Discussion

Respond to the following:

Describe the role of the nurse educator in providing a safe and positive learning environment. Provide an example of how you would integrate GCU's mission and Christian worldview to promote a positive learning environment. Include discussion on how to prepare future nurse educators to promote civil behaviors and respond to uncivil behaviors in the practice setting.

Discuss two or three ways that the clinical nurse educator can facilitate learning in the clinical setting.

 

NUR665E Nursing Education Practicum

Week 3 Discussion

Define and describe classroom assessment techniques (CATs). Develop a CAT that you might implement in your upcoming lesson plan. Describe how you can use it in your upcoming lesson plan to evaluate student learning.

 

NUR665E Nursing Education Practicum

Week 4 Discussion

Nursing retention is a huge concern with one in five nurses leaving the profession in the first 2 years. Describe how socialization influences the role of the nurse educator. How can better socialization and integration of nurses into the profession be supported? What are some behaviors nurse educators can foster to improve retention and socialization into the profession?

 

NUR665E Nursing Education Practicum

Week 5 Discussion

One of the roles of the nurse educator is to develop valid and reliable tests to assess student learning. What are some guidelines the nurse educator should follow to ensure that the test questions developed are valid and reliable? Discuss item analysis and overall test statistics you will use to evaluate and assess for validity and reliability.

 

 

NUR665E Nursing Education Practicum

Week 6 Discussion

Describe how to choose an evaluation strategy based on the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains. In Topic 9, you will create a lesson plan to implement at your practicum site. Describe three evaluation strategies that you could implement and explain why they are a good fit for the practicum setting.

 

NUR665E Nursing Education Practicum

Week 7 Discussion

In this topic, you will be working on developing a learning needs assessment. Why does the nurse educator assess learning needs prior to lesson plan development? Discuss what will be important for you to assess related to the chosen topic for your lesson plan. What would be some important demographic information to gather? What other information might you consider gathering, such as learner diversity?

 

NUR665E Nursing Education Practicum

Week 8 Discussion

Describe the nurse educator's role in leading the process of curriculum design or revision. How do program outcomes impact this process? How do nurse educators determine what to teach?

 

NUR665E Nursing Education Practicum

Week 9 Discussion

Feedback or evaluation from peers, learners, administration, and self-reflection will help you identify your areas of strength and areas of growth as a nurse educator. Explain your plan for using this feedback to improve your effectiveness and skill as a nurse educator.

 

NUR665E Nursing Education Practicum

Week 10 Discussion

Collaboration is a tool that improves the thinking process and the finished work product. How does the clinical nurse educator demonstrate effective interpersonal communication and build collaborative interprofessional relationships (Clinical Nurse Educator Competency 4)?

 

 

 

 

NUR665E Nursing Education Practicum

Week 11 Discussion

Describe how the implementation and refinement of your lesson plan impacts quality improvement in your practicum setting. Describe two or three outside influences on the curriculum revision process. How does curriculum revision affect quality improvement?

 

NUR665E Nursing Education Practicum

Week 12 Discussion

What is the impact of the nurse educator role on organizational effectiveness? Identify one area in your practicum setting/organization that needs improvement. Choose a theory or change model with which you have experience. Applying the identified theory/change model, propose a change and describe the organizational impact in your practicum setting.

 

NUR665E Nursing Education Practicum

Week 13 Discussion

Being an effective educator requires staying abreast of the scholarship of teaching and learning in your field. What aspects of teaching and learning in your field interest you most? What plans do you have for participating in scholarly activities to enhance your nurse educator role based on Boyer's model of scholarship?

 

NUR665E Nursing Education Practicum

Week 14 Discussion

After you have analyzed learner data collected from your lesson plan presentation, describe the degree of learning by your learners. Include a description of the method used to gather assessment data and an explanation of how the data will be used to plan further instruction.

 

NUR665E Nursing Education Practicum

Week 15 Discussion

Consider a nurse leadership role (choose a role with which you are familiar) and describe how the nurse educator role collaborates with leadership in an institution (choose a setting with which you are familiar). Considering NLN's Nurse Educator Competency 8, how do you see leadership skills integrated into your future nurse educator role to shape and implement effective change?

 

 

 

NUR665E Nursing Education Practicum

Week 16 Discussion

Access the Christian Identity and Mission page of the GCU website, provided in the topic Resources. As a GCU graduate, discuss how you can integrate faith, learning, and work into your organization to foster a climate of respect and caring. How will you strive to be actively engaged as an advocate in nursing education organizations or institutional processes?