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NLN Core Competencies for Nurse Educators - Desklib

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NLN Core Competencies for Nurse Educators - Desklib

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Running head: NLN CORE COMPETENCIES FOR NURSE EDUCATORSNLN CORE COMPETENCIES FOR NURSE EDUCATORSName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:
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1NLN CORE COMPETENCIES FOR NURSE EDUCATORSThe National League for Nursing (NLN) has produced a number of core competenciesfor nurse educators. The nurse educators, who can accomplish the competencies, cansuccessfully develop future nurses who have huge knowledge on the philosophy of nursing andensure best practice for patients. There are eight important competencies. Out of this, one of themost significant is the competency 5. This competency states that nurse educators should alsofunction as a change agent and a leader (National League for Nursing, 2012).Nurse educators should use leadership skills in educating and preparing graduates fordifferent types of complex as well as ever-changing healthcare changes and environments.Researchers, after analyzing the different leadership models are of the opinion that nurseseducators should develop leadership skills in five important arenas. This involves role modeling,helping students to develop knowledge and learn, providing vision, seeking relational integrityand even challenging the system of status quo.Role modeling mainly involves the educators to teach students by making them observethe faculty members while the later are performing interventions. The nursing students will thenperform the interventions by following the ways by which the educators had demonstrated them.This is called role modeling. Another important characteristic of such educators is that they develop and share a visionwith the nurses by inspiring them and leading the changes. The nurse educators has theresponsibility to make the nursing student understand what they could become, how patients canbe cared for in better manner, how a clinical environment should be and what would be theobjectives of the semester. Challenging the system to bring out desired changes for better futureis also the duty of the educators (Adelman-Mullally et al., 2013). In the days, when the
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