Post-Master's Certificate, Nursing - Nursing Education (Post-MSN)

The Post-Master's Certificate, Nursing - Nursing Education (Post-MSN) program is a competency-based program that prepares students to be academic nurse educators in various educational and practice settings. Students are prepared to lead collaborative academic-practice partnerships to strengthen nursing practice by developing nurses who will lead and advance health in diverse populations. As academic nurse educators, graduates demonstrate a professional presence by helping nursing students acquire the knowledge, skills and competencies to work effectively in inter-professional teams across a variety of academic and healthcare settings. The WGU Post-Master's Certificate, Nursing - Nursing Education (Post-MSN)content is based on national standards and evidence-based research related to effective teaching, learning, curriculum design and development and nursing role development. It provides the knowledge and skills that enable educators to teach effectively in clinical and lab, online, hybrid, virtual and classroom learning environments. The content, resources, activities, and assessments in this program are consistent with recommendations from American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), The Essentials of Master's Education in Nursing, and the National League for Nursing (NLN), Scope of Practice for Academic Nurse Educators. This program builds on the core knowledge developed during the student's prior MSN degree. Areas of focus for this certificate program include: development of the context-based curriculum, learning objectives and outcomes, and learning materials that are an essential aspect of an academic educator role. This program will provide students opportunities to experience the application of nursing and educational theory, practical perspectives regarding learning, the development and socialization of learners, strategies to facilitate learning, and contemporary design and development of high-quality learning modules and assessments.

Official catalog text — WGU-authored.

Program learning outcomes are not available in the current catalog edition.

Course groups from the WGU Program Guide. Expand each group to see course descriptions and competencies.

Total: 16 CUs across 8 courses. Degree total per catalog: 16 CUs.