Curriculum
APRN education programs include at a minimum, three separate comprehensive graduate-level courses in: Advanced physiology and pathophysiology, Advanced health assessment, and Advanced pharmacology, (APRN Consensus Work Group & NCSBN APRN Advisory Committee, 2008).
What is the APRN Core?
These are designed to ‘paint a picture’ of how the competency is achieved at each level. These are designed to be understandable, observable, and measurable by learner, faculty, and future employers.
What are subcompetencies?
An observable ability of a health professional, integrating multiple components such as knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes. Since competencies are observable, they can be measured and assessed to ensure their acquisition (Frank, Snell, Cate, et al., 2010).
What is competency?
An experience designed to provide the student with an opportunity to synthesize the knowledge and skills acquired during previous and current coursework and learning experiences.
What is integration?
Broad distinguishable areas of competence that in the aggregate constitute a general descriptive framework for a profession (Englander et al., 2013, p. 1089).
What are domains of competence?
An organized and structured representation of a set of interrelated and purposeful competencies
What is a competency framework?
an important component of clinical education, serving as a valuable augmentation to direct and indirect care within healthcare settings.
What is simulation?
There are 10 of these in the Essentials.
What are the domains?
Competency-based education is a process whereby students are held accountable to the mastery of competencies deemed critical for an area of study. C
What is Competency-based education?
The intellectual structures within which the discipline delineates its unique focus of vision and social mandate. AACN has identified core disciplinary knowledge as having three components: historic and philosophic foundations to the development of nursing knowledge; existing and evolving substantive nursing knowledge; and methods and processes of theory/knowledge development
What is core disciplinary knowledge?
The skill of using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative healthcare solutions, conclusions, or approaches to clinical or practice problems
What is critical thinking?
provide for active learning, repetition, interprofessional engagement, and successive levels of difficulty
What are clinical/practice learning experiences?
Refers to a group of healthcare providers with various areas of expertise who work together toward the goals of their clients.
What is interdisciplinary?
Wellness, Disease Prevention; Chronic Disease Care; Regenerative/Restorative Care; Hospice/Palliative Care are the ____
What are the 4 Spheres of Care in the Essentials?
performance assessments should be integrated in the curriculum throughout the program of study.
What are progression indicators?