NURS 8873:Nurse Educator Practicum I

1 Class Hours 3 Laboratory Hours 4 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: NURS 7736
Corequisite: NURS 7751
This course is designed to focus student expertise and advance their clinical knowledge in a clinical specialty as well as introduce students to the nurse educator role. Students will select a clinical area of expertise in a setting with a preceptor identified as being appropriate to the student’s area of interest. The course contains advanced educational concepts, principles, and standards of best practice for education methodologies. Practice standards developed by INACSL (International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning) are included in each of the series of three practicum courses that include clinical simulation pedagogy. Students also explore issues related to standards of practice, practice guidelines, evidence-based practice, health literacy, culture, and ethics as they apply to the nurse educator.