Nursing Education Center

Alcorn State University

• examine teaching, scholarship, service and collegial aspects of the nurse educator role;
• analyze traditional and innovative methodological models of teaching in relation to the patterns of knowing in nursing; and
• explore a range of teaching methods relevant to selected nursing education settings.

• Components of the Nurse Educator Role: teaching, scholarship, service, collegial
• Patterns of Knowing in Nursing: personal, empirical, ethical, aesthetic
• Framework for Integration: purpose, content, method
• Teaching Approaches: lecture, discussion, clinical practicum, mediated

Billings, D. M., & Halstead, J. A. (2005). Teaching in nursing: A guide for faculty. St. Louis: Elsevier Saunders.

Gaberson, K. B., & Oermann, M. H. (1999). Clinical teaching strategies in nursing. New York: Springer Publishing Company.

Lowenstein, A., & Bradshaw, M. (2001). Fuszard's innovative teaching strategies in nursing. Gaithersburg. MD: Aspen Publishers, Inc.

Boyer, E. L. (1990). Scholarship revisited - priorities of the professoriate. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

• Access to the Internet, Microsoft Word, Acrobat Reader, Antivirus Software (updated weekly), and PowerPoint.
• Internet Explorer is the preferred browser. Browser settings can be determined and downloaded from www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.asp.