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Nursing Education Certificate

Required Courses		Credit Hours
EDUC 570	Teaching/Learning Theories	3
NURS 600	Issues & Trends in Nursing Educ	3
NURS 610	Instructional Design in Nursing Educ	3
*EDUC Elective	Graduate Level elective - courses to be specified for selection and must be approved by advisor	3
Total credits required:		12

Why Choose the Nursing Education Certificate?

The purpose of this graduate certificate is to provide a theoretical and practical foundation in nursing education for Masters Prepared nurses who wish to assume the role of nursing faculty in an associate or baccalaureate degree nursing program. This certificate will provide the opportunity to acquire some of the basic skills utilized by the nurse educator.

This certificate can also be used to target BSN prepared nurses who may be teaching in a community college setting by exception (faculty hired without required credentials due to a lack of qualified faculty) and desire career mobility to attain a faculty position in that same setting. The certificate can serve as the first step toward the MSN degree, thus providing a ladder into graduate programming for BSN nurses. This certificate provides 12 credits of focused coursework in the areas of learning theory, cognition, curriculum and instructional design, and evaluation nursing education programs. The 12 credits of this certificate also comprise the nursing education specialty concentration for the MSN degree.

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This certificate provides career mobility options for BSN and MSN prepared nurses who wish to enter academia to teach in undergraduate nursing programs. The certificate would also provide career mobility for nurses who desire to work as staff and patient educators in hospitals and other health care settings.

Admission Requirements

To be eligible for the Nursing Education Certificate, you must be a graduate of a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program with an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher, hold a current RN license and submit a written goal statement along with the application form.

Graduation Requirements

1. GPA og 3.0 is required for graduation.
2. No grade below a "C" is acceptable for graduation.
3. No more than two grades of "C."

More Information

Dr. Marietta Bell-Scriber, Program Coordinator
College of Allied Health Sciences
Ferris State University
200 Ferris Drive
Big Rapids, MI 49307
Phone: 231-591-2259
marietta_bell-scriber@ferris.edu