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2025-2026 Graduate Bulletin 
    
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2025-2026 Graduate Bulletin

NURS 6615 - The Nurse Educator

Credit Hours 3
Dual Listed: Nurs 5615
Prerequisite: NURS 5100  

 
Description: This course introduces the student to traditional and contemporary considerations for curriculum planning and design as applied to nursing education. An emphasis is placed on curriculum and course designs. These concepts will be applied to a variety of settings and/or levels of education. The course provides an introduction to analysis of testing, benchmarking, and evaluation methods in the clinical practice of nursing across classroom, seminar, and electronic formats; includes evaluation methods to ensure competency in the clinical area. Program evaluation and program accreditation are explored.