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Post Master's Certificate: Nurse Educator Program Overview
The Post-Master’s Certificate Program in Nursing Education will prepare advanced practice nurses who have already earned an MSN in a specialty field with additional training to practice as a nursing educator. The Program integrates theories, evidence-based teaching, and teaching-learning strategies for the education of staff, students, health care professionals, clients across the lifespan, and communities.
This program responds to current needs of an intense nursing faculty shortage at the local, regional, and state levels. As the need for new nurses grows, the supply of nurses qualified with advanced nursing degrees to prepare newly educated nurses is declining. Currently the mean ages of associate and assistant professors are 52 and 49 respectively. Faculty retirements will escalate as the “baby boomers” age. In a survey conducted by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 60% of the 410 baccalaureate nursing programs who responded denied admission to students due to lack of adequate faculty. A total of 35% of qualified candidates were turned away from these schools because of insufficient nursing faculty. Ironically, growing numbers of students will seek to enter nursing programs as high school graduates of baby boomers peak in number in 2008.
The Nurse Educator Post-Master’s Certificate Program is 20 credit hours, and can be completed in 4 semesters.
The courses meet the Nurse Educator Competencies as outlined by The National League for Nursing. An Educational Residency Practicum is offered. Outcome objectives for the program are consistent with these documents and are listed below.
- Develop and implement educational curriculum and teaching-learning activities based on theories, knowledge, and principles of learning and pedagogy (NLN Domains 3 & 4)
- Engage in formative and summative evaluation of teaching-learning and use results of evaluation to revise and enhance nursing education (NLN Domain 4)
