Competency of Academic Nurse Educators

Voices of experience: reflections of nurse educators.

BACKGROUND Recent data reported by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing suggest that nursing education is experiencing a continued increase in applicants. However, because of a faculty shortage, many qualified students are denied enrollment. Strategies that would encourage individuals to consider a career in nursing education would somewhat alleviate applicant restrictions. METHODS...

Exploring bullying: Implications for nurse educators.

This article examines briefly the issue of workplace violence and bullying in the hospital environment, but more importantly how the same and different styles of bullying and intra-staff bullying are emerging in nurse education. The content describes the aetiology of violence and bullying and their place in the National Health Service (NHS) including nursing. It explores bullying as the princip...

Social networking: implications for nurse educators.

"Teaching as a Competency": competencies for medical educators.

Most medical faculty receive little or no training about how to be effective teachers, even when they assume major educational leadership roles. To identify the competencies required of an effective teacher in medical education, the authors developed a comprehensive conceptual model. After conducting a literature search, the authors met at a two-day conference (2006) with 16 medical and nonmedi...

Fostering Scholarship Capacity: The Experience of Nurse Educators

In a milieu where traditional views of scholarship are embedded in the culture of educational institutions, and nursing programs in particular, this paper reports on a research project designed to support nurse educators’ capacity to engage in scholarly activities. Rogers’ (2003, 2004) “Diffusion of Innovation” model provided a theoretical vantage point from which to consider the ways scholarly...