C. Analyze the role of the academic nurse educator by doing the following:Note: You may refer to sources in the web links section and your interview with an ANE to
inform your analysis.
1. Describe the roles and responsibilities of an academic nurse educator in ensuring safe, quality
patient care in academic and practice settings.
2. Discuss how the academic nurse educator functions within the parent institution (outside of the
nursing department).
3. Identify two external stakeholders vital to the role and responsibilities of an ANE
a. Discuss two strategies to facilitate communication with external stakeholders.
4. Discuss how the ANE facilitates the development of interprofessional collaborative efforts.
D. Summarize an educational, political, cultural, or economical challenge identified from your
interview.
1. Analyze how the challenge from part D impacts the role of the academic nurse educator.
2. Explain how three relevant peer-reviewed scholarly sources support the identified challenge
from part D.
3. Describe strategies that can be implemented to address barriers and opportunities of the
challenge from part D.
E. Complete a reflective analysis that includes a development plan for becoming socialized to the role
of an academic nurse educator by doing the following:
1. Discuss how you will incorporate teaching, scholarship, and service as you transition to the role
of an ANE.
2. Describe how you will adhere to the ethics, values, and cultural norms of nursing education as
you transition to the role of an ANE.
3. Describe the type of academic environment that will best facilitate your transition into the role
of an ANE.
Rubric
C1. Roles and Responsibilities
COMPETENT
The description establishes clear and relevant connections between the roles and responsibilities of a
nurse educator and ensuring safe, quality patient care.
C2. Functioning within parent institute
COMPETENT
The discussion logically addresses how the academic nurse educator functions within the parent
institution (outside of the nursing department).
C3. External stakeholders
COMPETENT
Two external stakeholders are accurately identified and vital to the role and responsibilities of an
ANE.
C3A. Communication strategies
COMPETENT
The discussion of 2 strategies are provided and addresses how to effectively facilitate communication
with external stakeholders.
C4. Interprofessional collaboration
COMPETENT
A discussion of how the ANE facilitates the development of interprofessional collaboration is logical
and well developed with reasonable details.
D. Challenge summary
COMPETENT
The summary includes the main, relevant points of the identified challenge and accurately identifies
the challenge as educational, political, cultural, or economical.
D1. Impact of identified challenge
COMPETENT
The analysis of how the identified challenge impacts the role of the academic nurse educator is
feasible and well- developed.
D2. Scholarly sources
COMPETENT
The explanation is effective in addressing how 3 relevant peer-reviewed scholarly sources support
the identified challenge contains is well detailed.
D3. Opportunities and barriers
COMPETENT
The discussion contains effective strategies that can be implemented to address barriers and
opportunities relative to the identified challenge and is well developed.
E1. Teaching, scholarship, and service
COMPETENT
The discussion of how to incorporate teaching, scholarship, and service during the transition to the
role of an ANE is feasible and well-supported by relevant information.
E2. Ethics, values, and cultural norms
COMPETENT
The description of how to adhere to the ethics, values, and cultural norms of nursing education during
the transition to role of an ANE is feasible and well-supported by relevant information.
E3. Academic environment type
COMPETENT
The description of the type of academic environment that will best facilitate the transition into the
role of an ANE demonstrates thoughtful reflection of personal and professional characteristics and
their anticipated alignment to an identified academic environment.