NLN NURSE EDUCATORS CORE COMPETENCY
IV EXAM 2024/2025
What is the primary role of the academic nurse educator? - Precise Answer ✔✔To participate in
curriculum design and evaluation of program outcomes.
To effectively participate in curriculum design and evaluation of program outcomes the nurse educator:
- Precise Answer ✔✔-ensures the curriculum reflects institutional philosophy and mission, current
nursing and health care trends, and community and social needs, so as to prepare graduates for practice
in a complex, dynamic, multicultural healthcare environment
-demonstrates knowledge of curriculum development, including identifying program outcomes,
developing competency statements, writing learning objectives, and selecting appropriate learning
activities and evaluation strategies
-bases curriculum design and implementation decisions on sound educational principals, theory, and
research
-revises the curriculum based on assessment of program outcomes, learner needs, and societal and
healthcare trends
-implements curricular revisions using appropriate change theories and strategies
-creates and maintains community and clinical partnerships that support educational goals
-collaborates with external constituencies throught the process of curriculum revisions
-designs and implements program assessment models that promote continuous quality improvement in
all aspects of the program.
Addressing trends in curriculum design includes considering - Precise Answer ✔✔-integrate genetics
into curriculum design
-mental health: attitudes towards mental health disorders try to minimize bias and stereotypes
-ethics: ethical concepts in curriculum (medical ethics, law)
-gerontology: address caring for this growing population
Curriculum delivery methods include - Precise Answer ✔✔*problem based learning
concept-based curriculum - Precise Answer ✔✔A curriculum that is designed by organizing content
around key concepts.
Interprofessional Education - Precise Answer ✔✔When students from two or more professions learn
about, from and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes
All tasks related to curriculum development are to ensure? - Precise Answer ✔✔That students achieve
the program student learning outcomes (SLO's).
Student Learning Outcomes (SLO's) are? - Precise Answer ✔✔-The intended outcomes of the program of
study
- They must be measured to ensure they were achieved
- Write measurable SLO's
Writing specific competencies for each SLO provides? - Precise Answer ✔✔Detailed behaviors for each
SLO: these competencies are measurable.
The American Nurses Association defines a competency as? - Precise Answer ✔✔An expected level of
performance that integrates knowledge, skills, abilities, and judgement.
Resources for faculty to identify appropriate competencies are? - Precise Answer ✔✔- NLN (National
League of Nurses
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