Audience
practicing nurses, clinical instructors, clinical educators and adjunct clinical faculty
Overview
The Clinical Faculty Academy is a communitywide training program for registered nurses serving as adjunct clinical faculty at nursing schools in Missouri. This program is designed to develop qualified staff nurses for the role of clinical nurse educators to increase the faculty workforce, and expand and sustain enrollments in schools of nursing. Through the Clinical Faculty Academy, clinical educators learn the core competencies and learner concepts necessary to serve as an adjunct clinical nurse faculty for local nursing schools, along with the skills necessary to guide and evaluate students and prepare written assignments.
Objectives
- explain the relationship between the Clinical Faculty Academy, the Missouri State Board of Nursing, and health care agencies in Missouri and Kansas
- distinguish between clinical judgment, clinical reasoning and critical thinking
- outline strategies to reduce risk in your faculty role by summarizing FERPA and HIPAA
- summarize the use of learning outcomes in a clinical setting and strategies to facilitate learning
- compare selected clinical evaluation tools used in nursing education
- discuss the importance of positive student-faculty relationships
- explain the purposes of pre- and post-clinical conferences
- develop an initial philosophy of teaching
- develop self-awareness of your own personal characteristics that will facilitate developing positive faculty-student relationships
- identify and interrupt incivility and unprofessional behavior, as well as examine the role of the clinical faculty in addressing challenging and complex situations
Register
To ensure you receive all course materials needed to participate, register one week prior to your selected session date.
Cost
Complimentary to
KCMHC members