Innovations in nursing education: standard development for nurse educator practice.
Standards are critical in creating a vision for role development and articulating an expected level of performance for professionals. This article focuses on the process and outcomes of professional standard development that were used to redefine the scope of the nurse educator role as an advanced nursing practice role, delineate performance expectations, and highlight the complexity and diversity of role functions within the context of a tertiary-quarternary healthcare setting.
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. mona.koldsgaardrogan@sickkids.ca
Mona Koldsgaard
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Rogan
Dauna
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Crooks
Michele
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Durrant
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002322:Career Mobility; D032921:Consensus; D003697:Delphi Technique; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D016294:Models, Nursing; D024802:Nurse's Role; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009736:Nursing Process; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education; D009864:Ontario; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D011361:Professional Competence / Q000592:standards*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013850:Thinking; D014956:Writing / Q000592:standards