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NURS 742

NURS 742: The Role of Faculty In Nursing Education

Credit Hours: (3) Online

The roles of the nurse educator are examined as it relates to teaching and learning, scholarship, and service.

Course Content

This course examines the competencies related to the role of the nurse educator in teaching and learning, scholarship, and service in a thriving education with a focus on academics, health systems, and governance. Academic integrity, diversity, equity, and inclusion, ethical, economic, and legal regulations, accreditation standards, and professional expectations are highlighted.

Topical Outline :

  • Role of the faculty in Teaching, Scholarship, and Service
  • Academic Integrity-FERPA
  • Diversity, equity, and inclusion, ethical, economic, and legal regulations
  • Accreditation standards and professional expectations

Detailed Description of Conduct of Course

This online course may include but is not limited to seminar discussions (faculty and student-led), lectures, guest speakers, case studies, written assignments, projects, and other teaching-learning strategies as appropriate. Because the course is online, audio or video presentations/lectures, discussion boards, chat rooms, and other instructional technology strategies may be used.

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, the student will have the knowledge and skills to:

1. Examine the competencies related to the role of the nurse educator in teaching and learning, scholarship, and service and faculty governance.

2. Integrate academic integrity, social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion, ethical, economic, and legal regulations, accreditation standards, and professional expectations in education and healthcare environments.

4. Pursue continuous quality improvement in the nurse educator role as a change agent, nurse leader, and facilitator of learning in collaborative interprofessional settings.

5. Engage in scholarship and apply research findings from nursing and related fields.

Assessment Measures

Evaluation measures to assess achievement of course objectives may include assignments including papers and discussion board posts, group projects, presentations, and other discretionary methods of evaluation.

Published

June 2023