COURSE OVERVIEW

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. 

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MEET OUR EXPERIENCED EDUCATORS

Patricia Benner, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor Emeritus UCSF
Benner Institute Founder 

Garrett Chan, PhD, APRN, FAAN
President & CEO HealthImpact
Benner Institute Co-Founder 

Edward M. Burns Jr., MSN, RN
Director of Strategic Initiatives & Benner Institute HealthImpact 

Program Learning Competencies

The following nine competencies are essential for the clinical nurse preceptor to utilize for success in the teaching role.

  1. Diagnosing and managing clinical conditions.
  2. The skilled know-how of managing a crisis.
  3. Providing comfort measures for patients, families, and communities.
  4. Caring about patients, families, communities, and self.
  5. Preventing hazards in a technological environment.
  6. Decision-making and caring in advanced illness, loss, and the end-of-life.
  7. Making a case: Communicating clinical assessments and improving teamwork.
  8. Patient safety: Monitoring quality, preventing and managing breakdown.
  9. The skilled know-how of clinical and moral leadership and the coaching and mentoring of others.

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 EVENT DETAILS

 WHEN 

September 24, 2026 – September 26, 2026
8:00 AM-5:00 PM PT

 WHERE

Western University of Health Sciences

309 East 2nd Street
Pomona, CA 91766
USA

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