Evolving Roles of Nursing Educator in Diverse Environments

ES OF NURSE EDUCATORS IN DIVERSE ENVIRONMENTS — C918 PRFA — MFP2

TASK OVERVIEW                        SUBMISSIONS                                               EVALUATION REPORT

COMPETENCIES

7053.1.1 : Role as Professional Educator

The graduate evaluates the internal and external forces that promote academic integrity, cultural sensitivity, social justice, and ethical/legal values.

7053.1.2 : Role as Communicator and Collaborator

The graduate facilitates effective communication and collaboration to support academic-practice partnerships.

7053.1.3 : Role in Personal and Professional Development

The graduate develops a vision for assuming the role of an academic nurse educator through interprofessional collaboration, self-reflection, and personal goal setting.

7053.1.4 : Role as Change Leader

The graduate synthesizes contemporary nursing sources to inform changes in nursing education and practice.

7053.1.5 : Role as Educational Advocate

The graduate examines the social, economic, political, and organizational forces impacting the nurse educator role.

INTRODUCTION

In this task, you will examine the multidimensional roles of a contemporary academic nurse educator as a teacher, leader, change agent, and curriculum innovator. Begin by reviewing the NLN Nurse Educator Core Competencies. You will find that the academic nurse educator functions not only to teach and facilitate student learning, but also within the academic setting to lead change to improve nursing education. Curricula are constantly evaluated and revised to maintain currency and relevance to evolving role of the nurse in the education setting. Nursing education is impacted by multiple internal and external factors, such as the population served, scope of practice, the evolving medical technology, as well as socioeconomic and legalethical issues.

For this task, you will identify an academic nurse educator and interview him or her about job, responsibilities, and values in the current role. Select interview questions that explore the academic nurse educator’s role within the formal academic setting, responsibilities as a teacher, in curriculum development and change, interprofessional collaboration, and working within the academic community.

Schedule an appropriate time to interview the nurse educator and allow enough time to complete the interview without interruption. You may choose to utilize a recording device and ask permission to record the interview so you don’t have to take notes during the interview. You can transcribe the interview later.

After completion of the interview, you will create a Panopto-recorded video presentation that includes a description of the nurse educator’s role, summary of interview responses, your perception of the academic nurse educator role, and a reflective analysis of the interview.

In addition, you will submit a formal narrative paper in APA format that analyzes the role of the academic nurse educator and summarizes a challenge identified from your interview with the academic nurse educator. The use of current, peer-reviewed scholarly sources is necessary within the formal paper.

REQUIREMENTS

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that can be used as a guide.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

You will conduct a semi-structured interview that includes follow-up questions with an academic nurse educator. You are also required to develop 5 follow-up questions for the interview, in addition to the 5 selected core questions. Your questions should explore the academic nurse educator’s role within the formal academic setting, responsibilities as a teacher, in curriculum development and change, interprofessional collaboration, and working within the academic community.

1. Submit an interview guide that includes questions and answers to 5 of the 10 core questions and 5 follow-up questions developed during the interview.

Note: Reference core questions provided in the attachments section. You are expected to ask follow-up questions to the educator’s responses to clarify and expand upon their answers.

1. Create a Panopto-recorded video presentation analysis of the academic nurse educator interview.

Note: Your video presentation should be approximately 20-30 minutes long.

Note: For instructions on how to access and use Panopto, watch either the “Panopto (PC Users)” video or the “Panopto (MAC Users)” video by clicking on the applicable web link provided below. To access Panopto’s website, navigate to the web link titled: “Panopto Access”, and then choose to log in using the “WGU” option. If prompted, log in using your WGU student portal credentials, and then it will forward you to Panopto’s website.

To submit your recording, upload it to the Panopto drop box titled “Evolving Roles of Nurse Educators –

MFP2 | C918.” Once the recording has been uploaded and processed in Panopto’s system, retrieve the URL of the recording from Panopto and copy and paste it into the Links option. Upload the remaining task requirements using the Attachments option.

1. Describe the academic nurse educator’s role, student population, courses taught, and learningenvironment.
2. Summarize how the following responsibilities relate to the role of an academic nurse educator:

• facilitator of learning
• communicator and collaborator
• professional development activities
• change leader
• educational advocate

3. Discuss how the interview has informed your perception of the role and responsibilities of an academic nurse educator.

Note: A formal narrative paper in APA format will be submitted that includes aspects C, D, and E.

1. Analyze the role of the academic nurse educator by doing the following:

Note: You may refer to sources in the web links section and your interview with an ANE to inform your analysis.

1. Describe the roles and responsibilities of an academic nurse educator in ensuring safe, quality patientcare in academic and practice settings.
2. Discuss how the academic nurse educator functions within the parent institution.
3. Identify two external stakeholders vital to the role and responsibilities of an ANE
4. Discuss two strategies to facilitate communication with external stakeholders.
5. Discuss how the ANE facilitates the development of interprofessional collaborative efforts.

1. Summarize an educational, political, cultural, or economical challenge identified from your interview.
   1. Analyze how the challenge from part D impacts the role of the academic nurse educator.
   2. Explain how three relevant peer-reviewed scholarly sources support the identified challenge from part D.
   3. Describe strategies that can be implemented to address barriers and opportunities of the challengefrom part D.
2. Complete a reflective analysis that includes a development plan for becoming socialized to the role of anacademic nurse educator by doing the following:
   1. Discuss how you will incorporate teaching, scholarship, and service as you transition to the role of an

ANE.

2. Describe how you will adhere to the ethics, values, and cultural norms of nursing education as youtransition to the role of an ANE.
3. Describe the type of academic environment that will best facilitate your transition into the role of an

ANE.

1. Submit a complete ANE Interview Verification Form located in the attachments section.
2. Submit your formal narrative paper in APA style, including but not limited to title page, headers, in-textcitations, and references.
3. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

File Restrictions

File name may contain only letters, numbers, spaces, and these symbols: ! – _ . * ‘ ( ) File size limit: 200 MB

1. File types allowed: doc, docx, rtf, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, odt, pdf, txt, qt, mov, mpg, avi, mp3, wav, mp4, wma, flv, asf, mpeg, wmv, m4v, svg, tif, tiff, jpeg, jpg, gif, png, zip, rar, tar, 7z