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CERC: Clinical Education and Resources Center.
NOTE: This is a directional page to display departmental staff information.
The Clinical Education & Resource Center (CERC) is designed to be a nonthreatening learning environment that simulates the clinical setting. Mastery of skills is prerequisite to professional competency. Professional performance of psychomotor skills is not simply mechanical but requires sound judgement, careful planning, critical thinking and decision-making to insure safe and appropriate patient care. CERC is committed to providing evidenced-based practice and state of the art equipment for its learners. It consists of several lab spaces including fundamental, physical assessment, and simulation labs. The CERC has a large inventory of supplies, models, and equipment to facilitate student learning. A sophisticated student and inventory tracking system allows student to use their UNC-ONE CARD to be logged in upon lab completion and to borrow equipment. Additionally, the CERC offers a place where graduate students who work as teaching assistants are mentored into the teaching role, who often fill teaching positions upon graduation.

CITES: Center for Instructional Technology and Educational Support.
CITES helps Nursing faculty develop and refine instructional methods. A large part of this work focuses on acclimating faculty to instructional technology tools and software and facilitating their use in instruction. CITES can help faculty with the following: Educational/Presentation Consultation, Incorporating Technology in Teaching, Web Design and Programming, Graphic and Publication Design, Training and Class Orientations, and Research Grant Support and Consultation. See especially the section on resources for instructional design and web design.

CTL: Center for Teaching and Learning.
The mission of the Center for Teaching and Learning is to support teaching and learning at all levels and in all contexts in which instruction occurs in the university. The staff provides individual consultations and presents workshops on all teaching aspects.

ITS: Informational Technology Services.
Information Technology Services is dedicated to providing networking services, application development and technical support for the benefit of departments, faculty, staff, and students across campus. ITS is comprised of five divisions that provide central services and technical infrastructure to these populations.

UNC Libraries: UNC Library Main Home Page.
This is the main Web site for access to all library resources at UNC-Chapel Hill. Note especially the section Faculty and Instructor Support.

UNC Health Sciences Library:
This is the home page for the Health Sciences Library. It contains a section on Nursing References and a Nursing Special Collection under the AHEC Digital Library.

General Teaching Resources

Institute of Medicine
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies is a resource for science-based advice on matters of biomedical science, medicine, and health. The Institute provides a vital service by working outside the framework of government to ensure scientifically informed analysis and independent guidance. The IOM's mission is to serve as adviser to the nation to improve health. The Institute provides unbiased, evidence-based, and authoritative information and advice concerning health and science policy to policy-makers, professionals, leaders in every sector of society, and the public at large.

Martindale Center: The "Virtual" Nursing Center
This site provides links to a wide variety of resources on nursing protocols, procedures and nursing cases and grand rounds. An excellent source for teaching materials.

International Support

International Students and Scholars
This site lists all ESL resources as well as teaching and learning resources at UNC, so it's one-stop shopping.

UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing Global Health
This site provides valuable resources which allow the exploration of global health issues. It also provides other information which offers the opportunity for the enhancement and understanding of culturally competent nursing care as it relates to global health perspectives within the School of Nursing and abroad.

Specific Topics in Teaching

Adult Learning Theory
This site provides links to a variety of resources on adult development and learning, andragogy, and best practices in teaching adults.

Critical Thinking
To Think Like A Nurse.
This thought-provoking short essay, written by Penny Heaslip BScN, MEd, RN, University College of the Cariboo (British Columbia, Canada) links the essential concepts of critical thinking to the nursing profession.

Critical Thinking in Nursing
Resources for Student and Faculty.
Resources for Students and Faculty. This site, at the University of New Mexico College of Nursing, includes sections on critical thinking research, teaching and learning strategies, evaluation and measurement, print and on-line resources for critical thinking. Cybernurse Nursing Humor.

Evidence-Based Nursing
UNC Health Sciences Libraries.
The goal of this website is the investigation of the field of Evidence Based Nursing. Literature searching and web searching was conducted to discover useful articles and web resources about evidence based practice targeted for nursing professionals and students. While it is not intended to serve strictly as a teaching module on EBN, the resources mentioned and the site layout may be helpful for those desiring to learn more about the topic and may be a useful starting point in the creation of a more expansive and in-depth teaching tutorial. The site is aimed at the audience of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and therefore includes links to journals, databases, and resources that may only be accessed by affiliates of the University.

Faculty Development in Community-Based Care
Nursing Education Project at the University of South Alabama College
of Nursing.
In the interest of contribution to the education of nursing students in community-based settings, this site offers free curriculum units, and annotated bibliographies. All of the materials on this site may be freely copied, distributed, cited and quoted by nursing faculty and students in non-profit educational settings as long as authorship
is acknowledged.

International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation
and Learning
The mission of the International Nursing Association for Clinical Nursing Simulation and Learning (INACSL) is to promote and provide the development and advancement of clinical simulation and learning resource centers.

Just In Time Resources On Demand (JITROD) for Nursing Education
This paper presents a strategy and a template to facilitate the rapid population of any nursing concept with resources. Using this approach, it is possible to start from ground zero and quickly generate a resource rich matrix from which to develop leaning modules, teaching plans, problem-based scenarios, and metal earning strategies. By Jack Yensen, B.Sc(Hons)., Ph.D., R.N., Visiting Associate Professor of Nursing, University of Vermont.

National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME)
Manual for "Constructing Test Questions for Basic & Clinical Sciences".
This manual was written to help faculty improve the quality of multiple-choice questions written for examinations. It provides an overview of item formats, concentrating on the traditional one-best-answer and matching formats. It reviews issues related to technical item flaws and issues related to item content. The manual also provides basic information to help faculty review statistical indices of item quality after test administration. It also provides an overview of standard-setting techniques.

Nursweb:
Online Teaching and Learning for Nursing Faculty.
This site (at the University of Victoria, BC) is designed to assist nursing faculty with their online teaching. Research articles have been the source of many of the ideas discussed. Quotes from these publications are included throughout the site. Clicking on the article reference links to its summary.

Praxis Orientation Manual
Linfield-Good Samaritan, Portland Campus.
Praxis is "thoughtful action"—the kind of action that brings elements of intention, mindfulness and critical thinking into nursing practice. This is distinguished from task oriented "doing." While the latter is an important part of nursing practice, it is not praxis. The purpose of this document is to define the concepts of praxis, critical thinking and nursing practice; describe qualities of a praxis facilitator/educator; and provide examples of how praxis is used in nursing courses. The ultimate aim is to provide the reader with usable information. See also the Critical Thinking in Nursing Practice model that accompanies the Praxis Manual on this site.

Principles of Clinical Teaching and Clinical Evaluation
This excerpt from Preceptor’s Handbook (at Slippery Rock/Clarion/Edinboro Universities) explores teaching strategies for effective precepting and techniques for giving feedback to students and eliciting feedback from students.

Service-Learning in Nursing
Bibliography with Published Abstracts.
This 29-page document lists books and peer-reviewed publications that can provide direction and useful information for developing service-learning programs in nursing.

The Expert Preceptor Interactive Curriculum (EPIC)
The UNC School of Medicine educational site for preceptor education.
A faculty development curriculum in clinical teaching for community practitioners who serve as preceptors to health professions students. The ten on-line learning modules may be completed for continuing education credit.

Writing in the Nursing Classroom
Experiences, Strategies, and Assignments.
This annotated bibliography is an excellent guide to resources for nursing faculty on writing assignments for their courses.