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






3. Occurs when questions involve problem solving






4. Learners find own information. Education motivates the development of human potential. Encouraged to freely choose own path to learning; assume responsibility for life (Existential Philosophy).






5. An analysis of a clinical situation or incident - Learner must analyze and interpret the data provided






6. Human beings have unique profiles composed of varying degrees of eight and one half research-based intelligences.






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






8. Nursing labs with return demonstration - Simple problem-solving in class -Developing nursing care plans - Role playing






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






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


11. Completed at the end of a course/program - The final outcome.






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. Collaborative learning - Socratic questioning - Debates






15. Occurs when a leader develops in a particular situation. Switching instinctively between styles






16. Focus is on: What is truth?






17. Focus is on: What is good?






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






19. 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).


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






21. Focuses on energizing people to perform at a higher level.






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






23. Demonstration - Followed by practice - Return demonstration






24. Truth is related to specific context and is constantly being constructed.






25. Learner chooses their own path & assumes life long learning responsibilities by collaboration with other learners & facilitation of the educators. Self-actualization & education lead to happiness.






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






27. 0-1.00 - Correspondence between 2 tests or measures - Standardized tests >0.9 - Classroom tests 0.7-0.8






28. Occurs while learning process is unfolding.






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






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


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






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






33. Power is shared






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






35. Remembering - Understanding - Applying






36. Viewing films - Assigned reading - Listening to lectures - Observing demonstrations - Listening to conversation - Program instruction






37. 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


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






39. Excellent critical thinking teaching strategy






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






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






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






43. Based on knowledge & traditional content - does not emphasize problem solving






44. Reports - tables - diagrams - directions - & regulations






45. 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






46. Critique - Evaluate - Judge






47. Creating / Synthesis Construct - Develop - Formulate


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






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






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