Nurse Faculty Courses
Special thank you to the Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce for their partnership in offering these courses to cohorts of Minnesota faculty.
Full-Time Nurse Faculty Preparation Course
Expand your knowledge of teaching methodology, student evaluation, and curriculum development; learn evidence-based innovative strategies to foster active engagement, promote critical thinking, and develop clinical competencies for students.
This course supports schools of nursing to accelerate the on-boarding of new nurses and novice faculty to become successful in the full-time nurse faculty role.
- Analyze the role of the nurse educator in varied settings and competencies for effective teaching in nursing.
- Examine stages in the transition process from clinician to educator and strategies to ease transition.
- Apply theories of learning, learning style, culture, and other characteristics of the learner to teaching in nursing.
- Compare teaching methods including technology for facilitating learning in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains.
- Examine best practices for teaching in the classroom, online, and in simulation, learning laboratories, and clinical settings.
- Describe strategies for Inter-professional Education.
- Examine concepts of and strategies for assessment, testing, and clinical evaluation.
- Describe the processes for curriculum development and program evaluation in nursing education.
- Analyze the evidence that underlies educational practices and relationship to the scholarship of teaching in nursing.
This course assists to address national accreditation standards in preparation of nursing faculty!
- Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN). 2023 Standards and Criterion. Standard 2: Faculty.
- Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), Standards for Accreditation of Baccalaureate & Graduate Nursing Programs, Standard II-D, Amended 2013.
- National League for Nursing, Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation (CNEA), Standard III: Culture of Excellence and Caring – Faculty – 2017.
Over 10 years of excellence in online program delivery. Our expert Facilitators:
- Foster engagement via a “cohort model” supported by “best practice” distance learning delivery strategies and learning activities;
- Promote rich dialogue with diverse peers representing a variety of education levels, clinical expertise, geographic locations and practice settings;
- Expand participant’s education portfolio and professional toolbox with “in demand” skills and demonstrate proficiency in the areas of: clinical teaching/learning techniques, guiding students in clinical reasoning and debriefing.
Dates:
- May 19, 2025 to June 29, 2025 (6 weeks condensed – Minnesota faculty cohort)
- September 8, 2025 to December 7, 2025 (12 weeks – Minnesota faculty cohort)
Cost: $1000. Some $500 reimbursements to employers are available from the CNEE on a first come, first served basis, to faculty employed by a Minnesota-based nursing education program. Please contact us for eligibility and availability.
Please contact mncnee@unm.edu for more information about upcoming courses.
Part-Time Clinical Nurse Faculty Preparation Course
- Foster an environment of inquiry, critical thinking, discussion and shared experiences.
- Embraces the participant’s expertise, builds upon prior successes, and introduces new strategies and ways of thinking to address needs.
Upon completing the course, Clinical Faculty will earn 30 nursing contact hours and be able to:
- understand the expectations as to the key foundational constructs of the position, coordinate a seamless and robust clinical orientation process for faculty & students,
- plan and facilitate interactive pre-clinical conference sessions to evaluate a student’s preparation for clinical assignments and pro-actively anticipate and address clinical issues that may arise and effectively manage students post-clinical conference sessions,
- evaluate and write a formative and summative evaluation based on course competencies and criteria, and implement success strategies for engaging unsuccessful nursing students based on written legal & ethical guidelines.
This course assists to address national accreditation standards in preparation of nursing faculty!
- Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN). 2023 Standards and Criterion. Standard 2: Faculty.
- Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), Standards for Accreditation of Baccalaureate & Graduate Nursing Programs, Standard II-D, Amended 2013.
- National League for Nursing, Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation (CNEA), Standard III: Culture of Excellence and Caring – Faculty – 2017.
Over 10 years of excellence in online program delivery. Our expert Facilitators:
- Foster engagement via a “cohort model” supported by “best practice” distance learning delivery strategies and learning activities;
- Promote rich dialogue with diverse peers representing a variety of education levels, clinical expertise, geographic locations and practice settings;
- Expand participant’s education portfolio and professional toolbox with “in demand” skills and demonstrate proficiency in the areas of: clinical teaching/learning techniques, guiding students in clinical reasoning and debriefing.
Dates:
- May 5, 2025 to May 25, 2025 (Cohort in Connecticut open to Minnesota faculty)
- May 19, 2025 to June 29, 2025 (6 weeks – Minnesota faculty cohort)
- September 8, 2025 to October 19, 2025 (6 weeks – Minnesota faculty cohort)
Cost: $500. Some $250 reimbursements to employers are available from the CNEE on a first come, first served basis, to faculty employed by a Minnesota-based nursing education program. Please contact us for eligibility and availability.
Please contact mncnee@unm.edu for more information about upcoming courses.