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Certified Nurse Educator

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Teaching strategy...small teams each w/ learners of different levels use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject. Each person is responsible for learning and helping teammates learn.






2. Adults are self-directed and problem centered and need to learn useful information.






3. Learner focuses on acquisition and recall of specific facts - concepts and principles. Simple (knowledge) to complex (synthesis/evaluation).






4. Share relevant stories to facilitate content & skills acquisition. A practical discourse using nine themes allows education to be gained thru experiences of teachers - students and clinicians to direct nursing education.






5. Critique - Evaluate - Judge






6. Individual or group projects - Debating ethical issues - Participating in case studies - Conducting research - Completing nursing care maps - Critiquing peer's performance






7. 0-1.00 - Correspondence between 2 tests or measures - Standardized tests >0.9 - Classroom tests 0.7-0.8






8. OLD (Nouns) - NEW (Verbs) - 6 Levels: Synthesis (Creating) - Evaluation - Analysis (Analyzing) - Application (Applying) - Comprehension (Understanding ) - Knowledge (Remembering)


9. Link concepts w/ arrow to describe the direction of the relationship - Makes learning an active process rather than a passive one.






10. Generation of new knowledge for application and integration into the discipline and teaching; developing knowledge base of Nursing.






11. Collaborative learning - Socratic questioning - Debates






12. Excellent critical thinking teaching strategy






13. Focuses on getting the job done - Chairperson engages faculty in the development & adoption of a new curriculum.






14. Define - Identify - List - Recognize - Cite - know - match - memorize - name - recall - recite - relate - repeat - reproduce - review - state - tell






15. Interpretation and synthesis of knowledge across discipline boundaries; requires communication & interdisciplinary collaboration.






16. Judgement that the test measures what it's intended to measure -Reliability Ability of the the test to provide dependable and consistent scores






17. Dialogue & reflection. Understanding the hows and whys of human experience. Perception of events results in learning.






18. Analyzing - Evaluating - Creating






19. Using empathy - Setting an example - Counseling - Journaling - Role modeling






20. Creating analogies - writing summaries - Explaining to a peer - Pair or team discussions - Answering questions during a lecture - Viewing Power Points






21. Teaching to Cognitive Domain Cooperative learning - AV presentations - Lecture - Discussion - Concept Mapping - Analogies


22. The liberation for thought occurs through analysis of power and relationships within social structure information.






23. Describe - Explain - Summarize - Discuss - Review - Express - Indicate - Locate - report - restate - Reword - Select






24. 'Hands off' style - leader provides little or no direction to faculty Gives a lot of freedom - must decide & resolve on their own. Would not facilitate a new curriculum. Free-Rein Leadership






25. Reasoning - Inference - Interpretation- Knowledge - Open-mindedness






26. Eliminates adversarial relationships. Education consists of an integration of humanistic-existential - phenomenological - feminist and caring ideologies.






27. Creating / Synthesis Construct - Develop - Formulate


28. Remembering - Understanding - Applying






29. Apply - Demonstrate - Use - Develop - Examine - Employ - Illustrate - practice - Schedule - Solve - write






30. Development is sequential and progresses in an uneven/interrupted manner through several phases.






31. Conditions of learning influence acquisition/retention by modifying existing cognitive structures. Assimilation - accommodation and construction of knowledge are the basic processes of learning.






32. Requires evidence of effective teaching and dissemination of knowledge acquired as a result of teaching; curriculum development - use of innovative teaching/learning strategies; dissemination of teaching knowledge/expertise.






33. Intellectual growth - activism - and empowerment can change injustice and inequity for all persons. Florence Nightingale.






34. Includes statements on: Person/client - Nursing - Environment - Health - and sometimes Nursing Education. Metaphysics Study of reality vs. what is fantasy/illusion (post-modern in nature).


35. Connects theory to practice; 'How can knowledge be responsibly applied to consequential problems?' - Service to boards and organizations - policy development.






36. Demonstration - Followed by practice - Return demonstration






37. Occurs when questions involve problem solving






38. Focus is on: What is truth?






39. Insufficient length (min. 25 mult. choice) - Insufficient group variability - Test scores to a smaller group of (N) will decrease reliability






40. P values (intended) .70-.80 (ideal) - Can be .3-.8 (bell curve) - 1.00 - Upper limits of P value - 100% answered question correctly






41. Facts - ideas - materials - trends - sequences - methodology - principles - & generalizations.






42. Focuses on the need of society rather than the individual & is not reflective of an emphasis on problem solving. Student to experience inquiry thru active learning and exploration; involvement in social and community activities. (Pragmatist Philosoph






43. Positive reinforcement & reward. Student subject to natural law; motivated to learn through positive reinforcement; rewarded for scientific objectivity and objective analysis (Realism Philosophy).






44. Power in the hands of the leader. Does not provide for sharing of power needed for faculty to adopt a new curriculum. Collaboration is needed.






45. Leader manages 'by the book' - everything by procedure or policy. If not covered by 'the book' leader refers to the next level - not facilitate curriculum






46. Applying ideas - rules of procedure - methods - formulae - principles - & theories in job related situations






47. Learning is interactive and occurs in a social/historical context. Knowledge - ideas - attitudes and values are developed as a result of relationships with people.






48. Learning encompasses attitudes - beliefs - values - feelings - emotions - & motivation. The expression of these often involves statements of opinions - beliefs - or an assessment of worth.






49. Breaking down material or information into its constituent parts and detecting the relationship of the parts and the way they are organized. Organizing - Prioritizing - Differentiating


50. Frames issues & provides choices for faculty