Master's Essentials Tool Kit

The purpose of the Master's Essentials Tool Kit is to provide resources and exemplars to assist faculty with the implementation of the Essentials of Master's Education in Nursing (2011). The tool kit provides integrative learning strategies, opportunities for program enhancement, and resources that will assist faculty with the integration of the Master's Essentials throughout the nursing curriculum. This tool kit includes a review of the nine Master's Essentials followed by Integrative Learning Strategies, Opportunities for Program Enhancement, Web Links, AACN Presentations, and References.

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Additional Resources

• Clinical Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Framework Elements and IPEC Core Competencies
• Clinical Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Framework
• Curriculum Framework for Health Professions Education

PowerPoints

• Master's Essentials Task Force Dialogue
  Dr. Joanne Warner
• Innovative Ways to Design the Graduate Curriculum
  Dr. Doreen Harper
• Innovative Ways to Design the Graduate Curriculum
  Dr. Judith Karshmer
• Maximizing Resources: Sharing Common Foundation Courses Across Graduate Degree Programs
  Dr. Jean E. DeMartinis

Webinars

• Review of AACN’s Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing (2010)
  Dr. Joanne Warner
• Nursing Education Programs and the Master’s Essentials (2011)
  Dr. Nancy DeBasio, Dr. Pauline Komnenich, Dr. Mary Oesterle, and Dr. Mary Weyer
• Revising Curricula for the New Master’s Essentials (2011)
  Dr. Julie Sebastian, Dr. Judith Karshmer, Dr. Brenda Jackson