Clinical Nurse Educator Training Program
Clinical Nurse Educator Training Program
Online Custom Solution
We work with organizations to retain and upskill their clinical nurse educator workforce in mentorship and clinical teaching, equipping them with the skills and support to successfully prepare nurses for clinical practice.
An interactive Clinical Nurse Educator platform, designed to standardize excellence, deliver and measure evidence-based teaching and learning principles and provide a scaled foundation for nurses aspiring to be clinical educators across a variety of settings.
Format:
Hybrid
Min Cohort:
10
CEs
10
Supporting Competent and Confident Clinical Nurse Educators
The National Clinical Nurse Educator Program integrates best practices of teaching and learning to deliver a robust professional development program that meets the organizational and individual needs of nurses aspiring to be competent clinical nurse educators.
OpusVi’s platform provides a complete solution, allowing your nursing workforce to build skills and confidence while encouraging your leaders to identify problems and intervene with real-time data.
Better Patient Care & Satisfaction
The program is aligned with the National League for Nursing’s Certified Nurse Educators-clinical (CNEcl) credential, allowing academic programs to demonstrate the excellence and rigor of preparation and training of adjunct clinical faculty.
This program is designed to develop the following competencies:
- Function within the Education and Health Care Environment
- Facilitate Learning in the Health Care Environment
- Demonstrate Effective Communication and Collaboration
- Apply Clinical Expertise
- Facilitate Learner Development and Socialization
- Implement Effective Assessment and Validation Strategies
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Hybrid Delivery
Through synchronous and asynchronous delivery, OpusVi uses best-practice teaching and learning strategies to support preceptors toward competency within the preceptor role.
Timely & Relevant Curriculum
The learning pathways have case studies, tools, tips and strategies for precepting, best practices for teaching and learning and extensive reference materials.
Flexible Program Structure
4 of hybrid learning modules over 1 month with a monthly Colleague Connect meeting and Board Certification Review.
System Outcomes
Practice self-care and develop motivation and time management strategies.
Evaluate professional identity and core competencies using best teaching practices.
Communicate effectively to coach and meet individual learning needs of new nurses.
Foster positive learning environments and inspire new nurses.
Integrate adult learning principles to transition newly licensed nurses into professional practice.
Real-Time, Rich Data Insights Across Your Organization
The scalable platform allows access, across the healthcare system, to real-time data giving leaders greater capacity for informed decision-making related to new graduate progression, problems, barriers and achievements.
The data collected throughout the program provides unique visibility into a new nurse's journey, allowing each system to identify and analyze areas of opportunity.
Learner FAQs
Shared Common Competencies
- Leadership
- Communication
- Quality and Patient Experience
- Mental Health, Substance Abuse
- Resilience
- Cultural Engagement
Specialty Areas Supported
Unit-Specific Pathways
- MedSurg-Tele
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
- Acute Rehabilitation Unit (ARU)
- Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
- Emergency Room (ER)
- Labor & Delivery (L&D)
- Mother Baby Care (MBC)
- Operating Room (OR)
- Cath Lab
- Hospice
- Behavioral Health
- Critical Access Hospitals
Specific MedSurg Competencies
- Surgical Care
- Integumentary
- Respiratory
- Hematology
- Cardiovascular
- Gastrointestinal
- Renal
- Endocrine
- Neurological
FAQs
We are your partners from start to finish. View this FAQ for more information on who brings what to the table.
Minimum Cohort Size for the Program
Our programs are designed for engaging, career-focused learning in groups of 10 or more. Each participating organization must enroll a minimum of 10 learners to launch a cohort. This format encourages collaboration, shared learning and organizational impact—ensuring your team moves forward together.
What Insights Are Available?
Data collected throughout the program provides unique visibility into a clinical nurse educator’s journey, allowing each system to identify and analyze areas of opportunity to:
- Improve Clinical Faculty Retention
- Increase Role Satisfaction
- Promote Wellbeing
- Ensure Competency and Quality Outcomes
- Provide Professional Role Clarity and Development
Unique insights include:
- Clinical Nurse Educator Performance
- Work Environment
- Competency-Based Education and Assessment
- Predictive Retention Rates of the Clinical Nurse Educator
Does This Program Offer CEs?
This nursing continuing professional development activity is accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Criteria for Awarding Contact Hours:
- Attendance for a specified period of time (Missing no more than 10 minutes of ILT activity)
- Completion/submission of the evaluation form
- Successful completion of all four online modules and the interactive
activities within each module - Demonstrate active engagement in the learning process.
Included in this program is a synchronous review course for national certification for the:
- Certified Nurse Educator-clinical (CNE®cl) from the National League for Nursing
- Nursing Professional Development-Board Certification (NPD-BC) from the American Nurses Credentialing Center
- Preceptor Certificate of Mastery (PCOM) from the Association of Nursing Professional Development (ANPD)
What Does My Organization Provide?
- System sponsorship
- Project owner site administrators
- Clinical Educators' workforce data analysis
What Does OpusVi Provide?
- Step-by-step implementation framework and support
- Clinical nurse educator platform for educators, lead faculty and administrators
- Digital Badging infrastructure and metadata
- Clinical nurse educator training and professional development pathway
- Repository for accreditation reporting and insights
- Integration with LMS and digital resources
Can I Enroll as an Individual?
Our programs are designed for group-based learning with a minimum of 10 participants. While we don’t offer individual enrollment at this time, you’re welcome to organize your own group of 10 or more peers to start a cohort. You can also speak with your employer about enrolling your team through your organization.
Margaret Werner MSN, RN
Transition to Practice Coordinator at Onvida Health
OpusVi’s Preceptor Program transformed how we evaluate and support our team. The detailed insights allowed us to identify and address performance risks before they could impact patient safety. With this level of clarity, we’re now confident that our preceptors are equipped to provide exceptional care and guidance, safeguarding both our patients and our nursing teams.
Andrew Malley
Chief Executive Officer, OpusVi
We’re proud to offer a meaningful and substantial nationwide Nurse Residency, Preceptor and Mentor program. We can support nurses in the field and continually educate them for better outcomes in the communities that they serve. Equally, we will support health systems in the retention of nurses and create a stronger and better-prepared workforce at scale.
Julie DeLoia, PhD
Chief Academic Officer of OpusVi™
In this program, learners will not just learn about the theory of social determinants of health, but also gain knowledge and skills that are immediately transferable to implement change in the workplace and communities. Learners will also gain skills to overcome obstacles to implementing change and how to evaluate program success.
Curriculum Highlights
Module 1: Core Competencies of the Clinical Nurse Educator
Participants will recognize the clinical nurse educator’s identified core competencies and best practices for teaching and learning in the context of the healthcare environment.
Module 2: Applying Clinical Expertise in Teaching and Evaluation
Module 3: Effective Communication and Coaching for Learner Success
Module 4: Modeling Self-Care and Supporting Student Growth
SMEs and Facilitators
Our programs are created for healthcare, by healthcare.
From focus groups throughout course creation to the selection of our program facilitators, we leverage the best and brightest minds in the industry to provide the most impactful learning experience.
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