Clinical Faculty Development

The Clinical Faculty & Educator Certificate Program utilizes research on teaching and learning, skill acquisition, and clinical reasoning. The implications for teaching and learning for the Novice, Advanced Beginner, Competent, and Proficient levels in the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition will be presented.

The program applies the universal apprenticeships for any practice discipline, the Cognitive Apprenticeship, the Practice Apprenticeship, and the Ethical Comportment and Formation Apprenticeship, to organize the course content. The Four Paradigm Shifts are examined and provide a pathway for nurse educators to prepare nursing students for success.

A distinction is made between mere application of technical knowledge and productive use of knowledge in actual clinical practice (a higher-order form of situated thinking). Canvas™ houses the virtual learning classroom, and course content is divided into 6 modules, each with a corresponding synchronous Zoom workshop.