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10/25/06
Drexel DrNP Program Announces Two New Program Electives

Winter Quarter 2007: Wednesdays 2:30-5:20pm

Educator Track Cognate (Elective)

Competencies for the Nursing Professor in the Instructional Environment (Dr. Joanne Serembus)

Course Description: Today’s educators face unprecedented challenges such as faculty shortages and changing student demographics. In light of these challenges, nurse educators need to be armed with evidence-based knowledge of a broad range of strategies, as well as the learning environment in which to best use these strategies. The student will be provided with information on how to deal with current problems found in the educational setting. Innovation, creativity, and evaluation approaches used in the traditional classroom, technology-based setting, and clinical area will be highlighted. This course will concentrate on specific topics based on the core competencies required of nurse educators as outlined by the National League for Nursing, Scope of Practice for Academic Nurse Educators. Course content focuses on the tasks imbedded within each competency expected of the nurse educator.

Faculty: Dr. Joanne Serembus

Practitioner Track Cognate (Elective)

Self Regulation in Health and Illness (Dean Gloria Donnelly)

Course Description: The concept of self-regulation and the individual’s capacity to self regulate both somatically and cognitively lies at the mind/body interface. This course will explore historical and contemporary theories and research findings on self-regulation in the bio-behavioral realm with special emphasis on how “stress” affects both somatic and cognitive self-regulation efforts including the development of higher levels of health or disease and illness. Given the US public’s extensive use of non-traditional therapies, many of which involve self-regulation, the exploration of the efficacy of these modalities by advanced practice nurses is crucial. Advanced practice nurses need deep knowledge and understanding of the efficacy of self-regulation modalities so that they can guide patients, families and professionals on their application in commonly occurring conditions.

Faculty: Dean Gloria Donnelly