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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. Dialogue - Peer Sharing - Story Telling Interpretive approach to teaching/learning - Evolves from lived experiences of teachers & learners. - Insights are gleaned from practical wisdom/knowledge. - Promotes truth seeking - caring & affective learning






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






3. Collaborative learning - Socratic questioning - Debates






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






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






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






7. 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


8. Excellent critical thinking teaching strategy






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






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






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






12. 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.






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






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






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






16. '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






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






18. Kuder Richardson - Split-half Reliability Coefficient - Coefficient Alpha






19. 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.






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






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






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






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






24. 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).


25. Focuses on choices & individualism ...not problem solving






26. Frames issues & provides choices for faculty






27. Reinforces knowledge rather than learning new material - Imagery Stimulates critical thinking by exploring mental models. - Decreases anxiety--increases skill performance.






28. All behavior is learned and can be shaped / rewarded to attain desired ends.






29. Focus is on: What is truth?






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






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






32. Demonstration - Followed by practice - Return demonstration






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






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






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






36. Encompasses fine motor - gross motor and manual skills. Commonly used in clinical techniques - Learners might physically do skills






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






38. Power is shared






39. Analyzing - Evaluating - Creating






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


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






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






43. Educator models the behavior; information flows form educator to learner. Student encouraged to expand the mind by inquiry - discovery - aesthetics - synthesis and application of knowledge to life. Belief in strong liberal arts foundation. (Idealism






44. 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).






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






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






47. 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.






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


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






50. 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.