National League of Nursing

Develop your coaching skills collaborating with experts from the National League for Nursing. Practice how to promote reflective learning in novice nurses utilizing Socratic dialogue and recognize how to foster a safe and effective learning environment.

Advocacy to Action: Policy Options for Funding Nursing Education

Knowledge is power. Learn about funding considerations for nursing education at the state and federal levels as well as advocacy strategies that enable you to influence funding for nursing education in your state as well as at the federal level.

Revolutionizing Nursing Education: Unlocking Funding Opportunities Through Innovative Community Practice Partnerships

Nursing is facing a significant workforce crisis.

Educators and administrators are confronted with a variety of resource challenges: there are insufficient nurses, educators, and financial means to provide needed care and services within their communities. This course will focus on how one health system is building the health of the community it serves while developing the nursing pipeline through innovative and unique educational opportunities that bridge public education and healthcare delivery.

Taking the Lead: Structural Racism, DEI, and Belonging

This program is intended for nurse educators seeking professional development and continuing education to understand the social and broader structural determinants of health that impact practice, education, research, health care delivery, and health outcomes.

Taking Aim at Good Teaching: Engaging and Assessing

Good teaching fosters development of critical thinking using contemporary neuroscience principles whether learners are face to face or remote. Beginning with the end in mind, join instructional technologist Dr. Andrew Bobal as he shares his Gamified Interactive Teaching Model (GITM) to successfully bring classroom lesson plans to life and shows how to both provide instruction that engages learners to use the content and provide a means of assessment on instruction success.

Integrating a Framework to Foster Clinical Judgment

The purpose of this course is to provide foundational evidence for how pre-licensure nursing programs are using clinical judgment models and teaching strategies to promote students' clinical judgment, and present a framework to support faculty integration of a clinical judgment model and use of multiple teaching strategies in pre-licensure nursing curricula.

Classroom Without Borders: Faculty Rounding on Clinical Sites

The "Classroom Without Borders" project was designed to close the gap between classroom and clinical practice by facilitating knowledge transference. Faculty from a baccalaureate nursing program, teaching foundational medical-surgical courses, round weekly on students at clinical sites working in partnership with clinical faculty to ensure that assignments are designed to achieve weekly outcomes. Faculty provide an immersion experience within clinical that includes handoff reports and Socratic questioning to promote development of clinical judgment. Rubrics are used to grade assignments. Reflection papers and communal blogs about the experience are completed weekly.

Ethics in Nursing Education:

Tools for Cultivating Ethical Competence in Learners

The eight-session course features speakers from both the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing with expertise in ethics in nursing education, diversity & inclusion, societal factors, and the intersection of ethics and the law, Ethics in Nursing Education equips nurse educators with essential skills to prepare a more principled and effectual nursing workforce for the 21st century.

Teaching with Technology

This online course will provide learning focused on using technology and instructional methods to enhance learner engagement in and out of the classroom.

Legal Practice Perspectives for the Academic Nurse Educator

This program provides information about the legal issues affecting the role of the academic nurse educator. Although the nurse educator must practice within legal guidelines, the law that impacts the academic nurse educator role is only rarely discussed and not typically contained within education courses.