Learn Evidence-Based Strategies to Confidently Teach Students in Clinical
Easily Transform Your Teaching to Prepare Students for Real-World Practice
The Challenge: Navigating the Transition from Experienced Nurse to Clinical Educator
Most new clinical educators receive no formal training to be successful in their role. They often feel unprepared and overwhelmed, leading to disengaged students and graduates who lack essential skills for safe practice.1
Whether you're just starting or have some experience, moving into an educator role comes with unique challenges, including:
- Transitioning from caring for patients to successfully teaching students.
- Lack of preparation to engage students in learning leads to feelings of doubt, discouragement, and failure.
- Course clinical paperwork is excessive busy work, but you don’t know how to change it to better prepare students for practice.
As a result of these all too common realities, most graduates are not adequately prepared for the complexities of real-world patient care.
There is a better way.
The Solution: Bridging Teaching and Practice: Essentials for Clinical Nurse Educators
This comprehensive course provides the only streamlined, evidence-based approach designed specifically for clinical educators that you can access anytime.
What You’ll Get
When you enroll, you’ll gain access to:
- Evidence-based Teaching Strategies: Research-backed methods to foster clinical reasoning to develop students’ clinical judgment.
- Time-saving Tools: More than 50 ready-to-use worksheets, templates, and alternative assignments to reduce prep time.
- Comprehensive Lessons: 20 sequential, concise modules, each earning Continuing Education (CE) hours.
- Real-world application: Engaging activities that bridge theory with clinical practice, ensuring students graduate ready to care for patients.
- Always up-to-date: Course content is regularly updated to reflect current teaching best practices.
- Reflection questions: Each lesson includes an opportunity to engage with the content and share with your mentor to deepen your professional development.
What You Will Learn
Essential First Steps:
Overcome uncertainty and set a clear roadmap to succeed from day one.
The Clinical Educator’s Role:
Gain a deep understanding of the clinical educator’s role, from facilitating active learning to navigating student challenges with confidence.
Developing Clinical Judgment:
Learn approaches to instill clinical judgment competency in your students, ensuring safe and effective nursing practice.
Providing Feedback & Assessment:
Learn how to provide your students with constructive, actionable feedback and leverage evaluation techniques to track progress and drive student improvement.
Managing Challenging Situations:
Equip yourself with practical tools to support students’ professional development.
How This Course is Different
Unlike other programs, Bridging Teaching and Practice provides a comprehensive framework, plus time-saving tools to empower new clinical educators to teach effectively, ensuring every student receives a consistent, meaningful learning experience.
The course allows you to:
- Access materials online, anytime. No waiting for the next cohort!
- Engage with content through reflections and supplemental weblinks.
- Deepen learning with a video summary and audio recording of each lesson you can listen to anywhere, and additional resources.
- Save time! Streamline your preparation with resources and professional development.
- Easily implement the strategies in this course using dozens of tools designed to ensure consistency across clinical settings and educators, including:
- Clinical paperwork that emphasizes clinical judgment
- Alternative clinical assignments that take two students off the grid of patient care
- Professional behavior contracts to hold students accountable
- Applying knowledge to practice worksheets to deepen knowledge of what is most important
- Developing clinical judgment worksheets to practice clinical thinking
- Planning worksheets for faculty to stay organized
- And so much more!
- Obtain 13 CEs when you complete the course!
- Aligns with CCNE accreditation requirements, helping faculty meet new 2025 standards.
The Result:
Become Empowered to Teach with Confidence
- Your transition from nurse to clinical educator will feel like a transformative and positive experience.
- You’ll feel capable of teaching with clarity and confidence.
- Your students will develop the clinical judgment needed for safe, effective patient care.
The next generation of nurses will be better prepared for practice due to your expert instruction!
Take the Next Step
Ready to be prepared to embrace the responsibility of teaching students?
Getting started is easy:
- Enroll below to be equipped to teach today.
- Learn at your own pace through video lessons, transcripts, and interactive content.
- Apply proven tools and strategies directly in your teaching.
- Experience the joy of students developing confidence and sound clinical judgment.
Purchase
Full Course with 13 CEs
Ready to unlock the full potential of your teaching and equip your students for success?
Annual access.
Questions? Contact us or Schedule a meeting with our Nurse Educator Consultant Maria Flores-Harris to learn more about this course and how it can benefit your entire program.
Testimonials
Here’s what educators who got a sneak peek shared:
”"This information was very insightful for me as a new adjunct. I wish I had this before I started to help guide my thinking. This answered many questions and connected the dots as I finished my rotation I was hired for. Great info and will definitely use it as a guide."
”"The design and content of this course is well put together and it addresses much of the content and questions that those of us new to education are asking."
”"I gained so much as a newer nurse educator. It broke the material down into manageable chunks that made it feel less overwhelming."
Who will benefit from this clinical course?
Any clinical nurse educator will gain valuable knowledge and resources from this course. However, if you are new to teaching in a clinical setting, you will find this course particularly essential for making a successful transition into your new role.
I'm a clinical nurse educator working in a practice setting. Will this course help me transition new graduates into clinical practice?
Absolutely! While this course was designed to effectively teach students in a clinical setting, its focus on developing clinical judgment and other competencies for safe practice will better equip you to prepare new nurses to provide safe and effective care.
Why should I take this course?
Consider the value of your time and mental health. Transitioning to clinical teaching can be overwhelming and often frustrating for new clinical educators because they are not adequately prepared. However, its true value becomes evident when you consider the advantages of being better equipped to teach and having access to proven, time-saving tools that help develop clinical judgment and other competencies needed for safe practice. Bridging Teaching and Practice offers the same valuable information that you would receive at a clinical conference, PLUS dozens of tools, all at about half the price.
If I no longer have access to the course, will I still be able to continue using the tools I have downloaded?
According to the membership terms, if your membership is no longer active, your license to use any downloaded resources will end, and you will not be able to use them.
Are you allowed to share the course content and tools with other educators?
You are encouraged and expected to share the learning tools with your students! However, sharing course content with other educators is strictly prohibited. Members can use all resources solely with the students they teach.
All of our adjuncts would benefit from this course. Do you offer a discount for program adoption?
Yes, we do! A program purchasing ten or more seats will receive a 25% discount off the individual price.
I am already a member of Think Like a Nurse (TLAN). Will I still find value in this course?
Absolutely! Though the Think Like a Nurse membership includes two dozen clinical tools, the comprehensive teaching and guidance on using them are an added value of the course. Additionally, this course includes many more tools that are not available in your TLAN membership.
Is there a money-back guarantee?
If you’re not satisfied for any reason, we will gladly refund your purchase within 30 days.
What if I have additional questions?
Do not hesitate to contact us or schedule a meeting with our Nurse Educator Consultant Maria Flores-Harris.
About the KeithRN Hub
The new KeithRN Hub is a platform to provide students, new nurses, and nurse educators in academic and practice settings with innovative resources to practice clinical judgment skills to ensure safe entry into practice. The Nurse Educator Guide is the first resource available in the KeithRN Hub. Watch for more, coming soon!
References
1. Halton, J., Ireland, C., & Vaughan, B. (2024). The transition of clinical nurses to nurse educator roles–A scoping review. Nurse education in practice, 104022.