The current critical shortage of nurse educators has resulted in an abundance of career opportunities nationwide, especially in the education of APRNs who fill an important gap as providers of healthcare, educators of emerging nurses at the graduate and advanced practice levels, professional development of healthcare workers, and educators in acute and sub-acute clinical practice.
The Post-Masters Certificate, Nursing Education, is designed to prepare nurses who hold graduate degrees for the roles of the nurse educator in academic, clinical, and professional staff development settings.
The Post-Masters Certificate, Nursing Education is a 14-credit hour program including content and practice in academic nursing education, professional staff development, and clinical nursing education. The program includes 256 hours of required teaching practicum activities as part of three nursing education specialty courses. For additional information about this program, please contact nursing@ouhsc.edu.
Residency requirements: Due to federal regulations from the Department of Education, the College of Nursing currently accepts applications for its onlinepost-graduate certificate programs from residents of the states participating in the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (SARA). A list of participating states can be found at: http://nc-sara.org/sara-states-institutions. Applicants are encouraged to check with the State Board of Nursing within the state of residency regarding any specific professional licensure requirements prior to applying or enrolling.
It is the intention of The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center to comply with all Federal and State regulations related to distance education. Federal distance education requirements and a detailed description of the compliance process are found at ou.edu/content/distanceeducation.html.