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Nurse Educator Graduate Certificate Program

Nurse Educator Curriculum


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For general application and admissions questions, contact:

Academic Services
UW School of Nursing
Phone: (206) 543-8736 or 1 (800) 759-NURS
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The Nurse Educator Graduate Certificate Program is available to all students who are enrolled in MN, MS, DNP, PhD, or those who have already received a graduate degree. Students who complete the Nurse Educator Graduate Certificate Program are eligible for nurse educator certification through the National League for Nursing after two years of full-time employment in an academic faculty role within the previous five years at the time of application of certification.

Program Goals

  1. Offer best practice models of how various pedagogies can be used to meet special challenges of a practice-based science.
  2. Showcase faculty and staff expertise in instructional methods as venues for certificate student learning and analysis.
  3. Incorporate interdisciplinary instructional and methodological perspectives into the role of educator.
  4. Offer a mentored capstone opportunity to synthesize knowledge and methods as an educator.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Analyze and apply or adopt best practice models of pedagogies to a population of learners in an academic or clinical setting.
  2. Develop expertise in an instructional methodology.
  3. Incorporate an interdisciplinary perspective into an educator role.
  4. Synthesize a role as educator through a mentored educator experience.

 

Specialty Information

Terri Simpson, Director of Nurse Educator Graduate Certificate Program
Dept. of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Phone: 206-221-6327
E-mail: tsimpson@uw.edu