MSN in Nursing Education Online Coursework

The course is designed to develop responsible healthcare leaders and socially engaged citizens. Students explore various ethical theories and healthcare law. Students analyze how nursing integrity, values, and beliefs influence policy agendas.

This course explores healthcare disparities and the influence that policy development and leadership has on outcomes. Students will gain a perspective on the overall health of the individual, family, community, and the world as influenced by environmental factors, ethnic and sociocultural influences, and human and economic resources. Human, fiscal, and physical healthcare resources in relation to global healthcare disparities are also analyzed.

This course explores the use of data-driven decisions to effect organizational change. As change agents, students assess organizational readiness, strategies to transform an organization, and ways to address resistance to change effectively. Students examine healthcare systems on local, national, and global levels.

This course prepares students to utilize evidence-based practice when providing high-quality healthcare, initiating change, and improving outcomes. Proficiency in the utilization of research and statistical procedures to evaluate research findings, problem identification within clinical practice settings, and awareness of clinical practice and outcomes are developed. Clinical research findings specific to addressing healthcare disparities are emphasized.

Students will continue to develop in assessment, communication, and observational skills to identify alterations in health and physical deviations in individuals, families, and communities. the course will use a critical thinking, systems, and case study approach to assist students to determine the fulfillment of human needs and physiological, spiritual, cultural, and psychosocial functioning and integrity. Ability to use health assessment to promote, maintain, and restore high-level wellness and prevent disease across the lifespan will be emphasized.

This course integrates two related physiological principles, pathophysiology and pharmacology. This course integrates physiological principles, clinical manifestations and is designed to review, expand, and update the students’ knowledge of pharmacology and pathophysiology and advanced nursing practice implications within the clinical decision-making process.

The role of the nurse educator and the theories and principles of teaching and learning are analyzed. Students will explore various teaching-learning strategies and modalities for both the clinical, face-to-face, and online classroom settings. Key design features when developing courses for the various settings will be examined along with best practices and evidence-based standards. The use of clinical simulations in the classroom, laboratory, and clinical practical’s will be explored.

Theories and principles of curriculum development and evaluation are covered as they apply to academic curriculum designs, nursing practice, and students and community populations. This course explores organizational, community, and governmental contexts related to nursing education. Evaluation methods, techniques, and strategies are included. Students develop components of an education program, including goals, objectives, teaching-learning strategies, and evaluation methods. Correlation of selected national standards for nursing education with appropriate program evaluation measures is analyzed.

This course explores the impact of instructional technology on healthcare education. Students consider the domains of instructional technology, such as design, development, utilization, management, evaluation, and learning resources. Examination of each domain in detail and outlining best practices while focusing on an educational topic will be the emphasis.

Students will work with a preceptor to practice in faculty or staff educator roles with guidance from experienced nurse educators. Students will develop lesson plans and prepare classroom and clinical learning activities. Participation in classroom or clinical teaching with evaluation of student learning is emphasized.

Students produce a written scholarly work that focuses on implementation of evidence-based practice change, quality improvement initiative, or an innovation project addressing an identified problem in their specialty focus area. Students collaborate with nursing faculty who advise them throughout the Capstone project. All six student learning outcomes must be addressed in detail throughout the scholarly work.