National League for Nursing (NLN) Eight Competencies for Nurse Educators
Promote excellence in the advanced specialty role of the academic nurse educator, the NLN establish nursing education as a specialty area of practice and create a means for faculty to more fully demonstrate the richness and complexity of the faculty role.
1) Competency 1: Facilitate Learning
Nurse educators facilitate effective learning by adopting a personal teaching style, use a variety of teaching methods, possess knowledge of content, excellent communication skills, demonstrate clinical and teaching competencies (Halstead, 2007). In addition to the knowledge and skills educator’s attitudes toward leaners are accountable too. Establishing a positive relationship with students and using personal attributes are essential to facilitate learning. Display enthusiasm, self-control, being cooperative, patient, flexible, admitting limitations and mistakes honestly, positive attitude, willingness to discuss are the good qualities and displaying a sense of humor is an additional grade.
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would like to be energetic, creative, motivator. Always adopt, practice and stay up to date with clinical practices and to a lifelong learning, including technologies as well explore innovative way to deliver content and assist students' link content of knowledge into the clinical practice. Ready to listen to leaners, possess compassion and a sense of humor. Always try to encourage, apricate and provide positive and honest feedback with open flexible attitude all these I believe leads to a student-centered teaching learning process. This writer assisted in teaching and conducted class, stayed current by participating in the assigned reading and integrating it into an existing knowledge