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Advanced Certificates in Nursing Education

Become an effective nurse educator and help prepare the next generation of nurses.

We offer two advanced certificate options (post-master's certificate programs) for experienced nurses who already have a master's degree and seek further education and professional development in nursing education.

Both advanced certificate programs prepare nurses to work as nursing educators or nursing faculty in a wide variety of settings, as:

  • Nursing Education Faculty and Leaders: As faculty members or leaders in a college or university, both in the classroom and on clinical units with nursing students.
  • Hospital/Health System Educators and Leaders: As a staff development educator or leader, as a provider of clinical or service-based education and/or continuing education provider for nursing and health care
    professionals.

This advanced coursework will build upon your previous degree to prepare you as an evidence-based and student-centered nurse educator.

Nursing Education Advanced Certificate Options

Both advanced certificate programs are offered in a hybrid online (part online, part face-to-face) format.

This Nursing Education Advanced Certificate has a focus on the teaching, learning, and education of nursing students, as well as new graduates, nursing, and health care personnel.

This certificate program is designed for APRN's - including NP, CNS, CNM, CRNA, or CNL graduates - who want additional coursework in education, teaching, and learning in order to function effectively as a clinical or academic faculty; preceptor; or staff or patient educator.

This 18-credit, five education course sequence can be completed in four semesters. Graduates of this certificate program are eligible to sit for the NLN's CNEcl certification exam.

See PMC-E Course Plan

This Nursing Education Advanced Certificate has a focus on the clinical aspect of master's nursing practice and features three clinical courses to augment previous coursework.

This certificate program is designed for nurses holding a baccalaureate degree in nursing and a master's degree in education (MEd) who want the required clinical content to function effectively as clinical or academic faculty and teach clinical courses in a college or clinical setting.

This 10-credit, three clinical course sequence can be completed in three semesters.

Graduates of this certificate program are eligible to sit for NLN's CNEcl certification exam.

See PMC-C Course Plan

Related Programs

You can also earn a degree in nursing education from the UR School of Nursing with these related programs:

Advanced Certificates

MNE-PhD Combined program

Master's in Nursing Education

Quotation Mark

The Post-Master's in Nursing Education gave me what I needed to succeed as a new nursing instructor. I'm fulfilling the dream I didn't know I had. I'm helping the next generation of nurses become somebody I want to work next to.

Kris LoBello, RN, MS Headshot

Kris LoBello, RN, MS

Nursing Instructor, Genesee Community College
Staff Nurse, Unit 63600 Strong Memorial Hospital
Post-Master's in Nursing Education (Education focus) '18

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