Online Nursing Education Graduate Certificate

Program Overview

The Nursing Education Graduate Certificate prepares students to become highly qualified nursing educators, equipping them with knowledge in clinical practice and nursing educator roles. The program emphasizes integrating scientific findings, utilizing technology, implementing leadership, and translating scholarship into practice to enhance patient care and optimize educational outcomes.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

Program Overview:

There is a demand for highly qualified nursing educators to teach the next generation of nurses and educate patients and families. The Nursing Education Graduate Certificate equips students with knowledge about clinical practice and nursing educator roles in academic and clinical practice settings. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, approximately 132,600 vacancies for postsecondary teachers, including nursing instructors, are anticipated annually from 2021 to 2031.

Program Objectives:

• Integrate scientific findings from nursing, biopsychosocial fields, global initiatives, and other sciences to enhance patient care across the lifespan and in various settings.
• Utilize methods, technologies, performance measures, and standards related to quality improvement and safety within organizations.
• Implement organizational and systems leadership to promote choices aimed at achieving high-quality, safe, and cost-efficient patient care.
• Translate and incorporate scholarship, educational strategies, and evidence into practice settings to optimize quality patient outcomes.
• Integrate broad organizational, client-centered, and culturally appropriate concepts to provide evidence-based clinical prevention, care, and services to individuals, families, and communities.
• Utilize patient-centered communication technologies to integrate, deliver, and improve healthcare throughout the lifespan.
• Collaborate as a member and leader of inter-professional teams to intervene at the system level through policy development processes and advocate for strategies that impact health, education, and practice.
• Provide care and mentorship with compassion, respecting, protecting, and enhancing spiritual integrity, human dignity, and cultural diversity.

Outline:

Course Schedule:

• NGR 6710: Advanced Nursing Practice for the Nurse Educator (3 credit hours)
• NGR 6710L: Nurse Educator Advanced Clinical Practicum (3 credit hours)
• NGR 6715: Nursing Education Seminar I (3 credit hours)
• NGR 6715L: Nursing Education Practicum I (3 credit hours)
• NGR 6718: Nursing Education Seminar II (3 credit hours)
• NGR 6718L: Nursing Education Practicum II (3 credit hours)

Individual Module Descriptions:

NGR 6710: Advanced Nursing Practice for the Nurse Educator

• Builds upon prior knowledge in developing the nurse for advanced practice in the community.
• Explores advanced nursing practice, population health in the delivery continuum, and educational resources suitable for the community-based environment.
• Analyzes healthcare of communities to improve health outcomes and equity.
• Incorporates principles and theories of education into understanding the advanced practice nurse role as part of the interdisciplinary team.

NGR 6710L: Nurse Educator Advanced Clinical Practicum

• Prepares students to integrate knowledge and skills to advance professional clinical nursing practice.
• Focuses on evidence-based practice application to develop advanced clinical competency in population health.
• Explores areas of interest with practice partners in communities to improve population health outcomes.

NGR 6715: Nursing Education Seminar I

• Continues the analysis and synthesis of teaching, learning, and related theories in classroom and clinical settings for emerging nurse educators.
• Focuses on applying theories in developing courses and curricula that reflect the parent organization's mission, vision, and values, current and emerging standards and regulations, and issues and trends in nursing education.
• Emphasizes institutional purposes, goals, nursing curricula, and designing instruction for classroom and clinical settings.

NGR 6715L: Nursing Education Practicum I

• Im