Question

1. What is the key role of the health professional educator in meeting learner needs compared to the role of health professional educators of the past few decades?
2. What are the responsibilities for health professional educators regarding maintaining teaching skills?
3. What are current challenges regarding today’s learner characteristics and expectations for health professional educators?

Answer 1

Ans) 1)Learning and development can increase employee retention, job satisfaction, and productivity. It's a vital tool when implementing new policies, equipment, and/or employees. Our newly developed dedicated learning time supports improved patient care, service to our community, and career development.

- Improve Patient Care:
When you further your education in the nursing field, you learn additional and advanced techniques to improve the care of your patients. Your classes help you develop your skills through the application of technology and data analysis.

2) Nurse educators play a pivotal role in strengthening the nursing workforce, serving as role models and providing the leadership needed to implement evidence-based practice. Nurse educators are responsible for designing, implementing, evaluating and revising academic and continuing education programs for nurses.

- Excellent nurse educators are described as those who possess strong leadership and communication skills and have outstanding theoretical and clinical knowledge. They are creative, intelligent, competent, resilient and fair.

3) Success strategies for making content relevant and realworld is to vary the pace, explore new ideas, and include activities that use all the
senses to employ thinking, doing, and feeling. It is important that both teachers and learners reflect on the learning. A

- A baby boomers and millennials work collaboratively to relate to one another, build positive self-esteem and coping strategies, enhance patience and work hard, the
teaching–learning environment will continue to transform for success.
Educators can adapt to millennial learning by assessing and appreciating the learner's characteristics, sharing expectations of learning, cultivating caring relationships, making learning fun and interactive, teaching critical thinking, providing opportunities for collaboration, and giving frequent feedback.