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1 Introducing the CNE Exam and its Blueprint • 3
Indeed, nurse educators with years of experience can validate their expertise
and knowledge by certification. These educators are an invaluable resource to
the current system, and certified educators are sorely needed as mentors, role
models, and visionaries to assist future nurse educators. Educators who complete
the core competencies of a CNE are needed to move the profession forward.
The following list outlines just a few ways in which that progression will
manifest itself:
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Mentors may assist new educators with preparation for teaching, the development
of test questions, grading, and decision making.
• Versatile education styles are necessary for providing quality education for
diverse populations of learners.
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The role of an educator expands beyond the discipline of teaching and includes
scholarship and service to promote knowledge development within the
profession.
REACH FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE, BECOME A CNE
Academic excellence often is encouraged through an atmosphere that influences
educators to challenge themselves to reach beyond their normal expectations.
Nurse educators who support an atmosphere of excellence can thrive, and their
success will raise the bar and academic standards within the discipline. Becoming
certified as a nurse educator allows faculty to better understand their multifaceted
role. This role includes teaching, communicating with learners and colleagues,
using information resources, understanding professional practice within the college
of nursing and the university, functioning as a change agent, and engaging in
scholarly activities. The role is challenging and encourages educators to be innovative
and collaborative in the academic environment.
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Preparing competent nurse educators should result in preparing learners to
become safe and effective nurses
• Research and scholarship through publications and presentations will provide
a positive impact on pedagogy
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Involvement in service such as professional societies or committees at the program,
department, college, or university level will enhance the ability to collaborate
and network within the academic community
Your decision to take the CNE
certification examination is a challenging
one, which will allow you to test your competence
as a nurse educator.
If peer review is used in the college
or university where you teach, consider
this as a positive force that will impact
your development as a nurse educator.
Table 1.1 presents the content areas
Teaching Gem: A great way to display
the scholarship of teaching for
a mid-level career nurse educator
is to create a new nursing elective
course that will enhance the
curriculum.
contained within the test blueprint and the percentage of each area in the National
League for Nursing CNE examination (NLN, 2012a). The test blueprint is the content
area outlined by the NLN derived from core competencies for a nurse educator
by Halstead (2012).
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