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AACN The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education (2021)
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MSN, Nurse Educator
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Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice Descriptor: Integration, translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences. This distinguishes the practice of professional nursing and forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.
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Utilize interprofessional knowledge in the teaching-learning of nursing care for diverse nurses, individuals, families, and communities to enact clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.
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Domain 2: Person-Centered Care Descriptor:
Person-centered care focuses on the individual within multiple complicated contexts, including family and/or important others. Person-centered care is holistic, individualized, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate. Person-centered care builds on a scientific body of knowledge that guides nursing practice regardless of specialty or functional area.
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Demonstrate person-centered teaching-learning practices for diverse nurses, individuals, families, and communities to promote positive learning outcomes.
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Domain 3: Population Health Descriptor:
Population health spans the healthcare delivery continuum from public health prevention to disease management of populations and describes collaborative activities with both traditional and non-traditional partnerships from affected communities, public health, industry, academia, health care, local government entities, and others for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes.
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Construct collaborative teaching-learning practices for diverse communities improve population outcomes for health promotion and disease management to improve population outcomes.
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Domain 4: Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline
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The generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care.
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Appraise evidence-based teaching -learning practices for diverse nurses, individuals, families, and communities to improve and transform health care.
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Domain 5: Quality and Safety Descriptor:
Employment of established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science. Quality and safety, as core values of nursing practice, enhance quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
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Employ teaching-learning practices for diverse nurses, individuals, families, and communities that promotes quality and safety.
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Domain 6: Interprofessional Partnerships Descriptor Intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.
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Collaborate with interprofessional team members and stakeholders in the provision of teaching-learning practices for diverse nurses, individuals, families, and communities to optimize outcomes.
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Domain 7: Systems-Based Practice Descriptor:
Responding to and leading within complex systems of health care. Nurses effectively and proactively coordinate resources to provide safe, quality, and equitable care for diverse populations.
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Lead in the provision of teaching-learning practices for diverse nurses, individuals, families, and communities to provide positive learning outcomes.
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Domain 8: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies
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Information and communication technologies and informatics processes are used to provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision making, and support professionals as they expand knowledge and wisdom for practice. Informatics processes and technologies are used to manage and improve the delivery of safe, high-quality, and efficient healthcare services in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards.
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Use informatics and healthcare technologies in accordance with best practices that demonstrate professional, regulatory, and ethical standards in providing teaching-learning for diverse individuals, families, and communities.
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Domain 9: Professionalism Descriptor:
Formation and cultivation of a sustainable professional identity, including accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment, that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values.
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Integrate professionalism in teaching-learning practices for diverse nurses, individuals, families, and communities.
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Domain 10: Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development Descriptor:
Participation in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, and well-being; contribute to lifelong learning; and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and the assertion of leadership.
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Choose personal and professional developmental teaching-learning activities that foster well-being and contribute to a culture of lifelong learning and leadership.
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