CON: iTeach Microcredential (Cohort I)
This microcredential will give novice faculty the beginning skills they need to launch their careers with more confidence and readiness to enter the academy of nursing education. Our HSC course, i-TEACH (Innovation in Training nurse Educators, in Assessment, Competency Evaluation, and High-quality simulation), will serve as a microcredential for registered nurses to gain introductory level skills in teaching the future generation of nurses. The online and on-demand course will introduce clinical nurse preceptors, novice nurse educators, and prospective MSN learners to best practices in nursing education.
Target Audience
This activity is designed for nurses who have completed the iTeach Microcredential coursework.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity leaners should be able to:
- Describe a competency-based education framework that reflects current nursing practices in education and trends in providing safe and quality health care.
- Apply adult learning and education theories to design, communicate, and evaluate lesson plans through teaching strategies that incorporate critical thinking, evidence-based practices, and technology.
- Integrate personal work experience with theoretical knowledge from nursing, health care, and other disciplines to facilitate a collaborative practice and facilitate the learners’ professional identity formation.
- Demonstrate emotional intelligence in communication, conflict resolution, self-reflection, mentoring, and peer review by planning and implementing a change in teaching practices.
- Develop a comprehensive plan that nurtures a positive and active learning environment, emphasizing and inspiring a lasting commitment to caring, ethics, advocacy, and civility in professional practice.
- Analyze self-directed learning strategies, adopting career-long learning habits and ideas for professional development to advance nursing education practice.
No disclosures were made by the planning team or the faculty.
In support of improving patient care, The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing Education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit.
Designation Statements
Nurses
This activity provides up to 22 contact hours.
Available Credit
- 22.00 ANCC