The course is completed! Using reflective thinking skills, consider all of the aspects of this course: What have you learned in these past weeks, and how will this be applicable to your future practice? How will you use the concepts in this course to identify, guide, and evaluate the final MSN practicum project? Please see the guidelines and rubric for more information. Solution: This class has enriched my knowledge as a nurse educator. Through this course, I have learned important concepts as...

Think of a time in which you encountered a challenging change process (personal or professional) and answer the following questions/prompts: Was the change planned or unplanned? List the elements that made this change difficulty. Who were the people involved, and what were their attitudes toward the change? What were some lessons learned by you during the change process? Solution: I have encountered many changes in life both professional and personal. One of the changes that I ...

You are the chairperson of the School of Nursing Grievance Committee. On Monday morning, you receive an e-mail from Susie Student, who wants to file a grievance. She has been expelled from the nursing program due to plagiarism. You ask Susie to come to your office to discuss the potential grievance. During the meeting, Susie tells you English is not her native language and she is 50 years old and has always been an A student. What are two questions you and the grievance committee would ask Susi...

Requirements Develop a formal Teaching Plan for a target audience in a nursing academic or healthcare setting (Do not develop a Teaching Plan for patients.). Use the template provided to prepare and submit the Teaching Plan. Preparing the Paper This assignment will be submitted to the faculty member using the template provided. The Teaching Plan is to include the following information. Topic/title of presentation Description of target audience Program description Learning object...

You have some concerns about one of the students in your class. You have a good friend who is a faculty member in the English Department, and you ask him to come to your private office to talk about the student. About 10 minutes into the conversation, you turn toward the door and see the specific student standing in your office doorway. Obviously, she has been listening to the conversation for a while. Have any legal or ethical rights of the student been breached? What would you do next? Soluti...

The NurseTim® Webinar this week was Innovative Ways to Engage Diverse Learners by Ms. Deck. Based on the webinar, the readings for the week, the lesson, and your individual research into didactic teaching strategies, and as Ms. Deck asked in the webinar, what is your secret talent that could make you a star? To put it another way, tell us what you believe will be your best attribute that you will bring to the didactic teaching environment. The Collaboration Cafe is graded this week (25 points)....

In reviewing the four classroom management styles, think about these questions: What sort of classroom management style will you exhibit once you begin teaching? Which style is most consistent with your personality? How might you work to achieve changes if you don't like what you see? Post your answers to these questions in the Collaboration Cafe and then discuss with your classmates how effective this style might be with various groups of students. Solution: As a future nurse ed...

The Personal Philosophy of Teaching and Learning using a voice-over PowerPoint presentation (150 points) is due on Sunday at the end of Week 3 at 11:59 p.m. MT. Please refer to the guidelines and rubric below for help and guidance with this assignment. You can also refer to the tutorial listed below if you need help with how to construct a voice over Power Point. Philosophy Teaching Learning Guidelines and Rubric (Links to an external site.) Purpose The purpose of this assignment is to prov...

Explain the difference between cultural competence and humility. Give a specific example of how this is seen in your current position or how you would implement this in the nurse educator role.  Solution: There are significant differences between cultural competence and cultural humility. First cultural competence is the ability to interact effectively with people from a different culture and it is more of a learned or taught skill (Campinha-Bacote, 2019). In contrast, cultural humility is the...

This week, we started to look at various philosophies of teaching and learning. In Week 3, you will be asked to submit your Personal Philosophy of Teaching and Learning using a voice-over PowerPoint presentation. This week, start to write your philosophy of teaching and learning and post your initial philosophy. Then review two of your classmates’ philosophy statements and provide constructive feedback on their philosophy statements.   Your instructor will be monitoring the Collaboration Cafe bu...