Clinical Faculty and Educator Certificate Program
Western University of Health Sciences along with the Benner Institute at HealthImpact, and San Antonio Regional Hospital have received a HRSA grant to invite clinical faculty, clinical educators, and a select number of preceptors to participate in the Benner Institute Clinical Faculty & Educator Certificate Program for FREE across Public Health Region 9.
Who is eligible to attend?
HealthImpact, the California nursing workforce and policy center, collaborated with nursing theorist Dr. Patricia Benner to create the Benner Institute for Teaching and Learning at HealthImpact. According to the Carnegie Report, Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation by Dr. Benner and colleagues, nursing education must undergo essential changes to transform nursing education.
The Benner Institute offers the Clinical Faculty and Educator (CFE) Certificate Program, intending to equip clinical faculty in academia and clinical educators. The CFE series, co-created with Dr. Benner, will help participants integrate the latest neuro and learning sciences into clinical education. Participants will acquire the theory, tools, and skills necessary to develop their teaching practice. The CFE Certificate Program spans 6-classes; each class is delivered over a 4-hour Zoom.
The CFE Certificate Program will be offered approximately 8 times per year.
Enrollment in the program is offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. Seats are limited.
Registrations will open in early 2023. In order for a pre-licensure RN program to register, the pre-licensure program must have all four (4) attendees be able to attend the same cohort.
Enrollment in the program is offered on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Yes, the CFE course is approved for 30 continuing education hours.
The Clinical Faculty & Educator Certificate Program contains six modules:
- MODULE 1: The Three Apprenticeships & The Four Paradigm Shifts
- MODULE 2: Developing a Practice: Understanding the Foundations of Clinical Reasoning & Learning Sciences
- MODULE 3: The Art of Situated Coaching
- MODULE 4: Developing Clinical Imagination & Forethought
- MODULE 5: Skilled Know-How of Clinical & Moral Leadership
- MODULE 6: Looking to the Future—Nurse Educators as Agents of Change
Participants in the program will receive 30 CEU’s.
Through this program, a QUAD of 4 individuals (2 from your nursing program and two from the clinical agency) will move through the modules together. All members of a QUAD are expected to come together and be present for each of the modules to learn together, to share together, and to teach together.
Curriculum Schedule
Each offering is a cohort of 24 individuals representing six nursing programs within Region 9.
Cohort Dates through June 2025 (All Virtual):
| Cohort | Mod 1 | Mod 2 | Mod 3 | Mod 4 | Mod 5 | Mod 6 | Day of Week | Time (PST) |
| 21 | 4/3/25 | 4/10/25 | 4/17/25 | 5/1/25 | 5/8/25 | 5/15/25 | Thursday | 9am – 1pm |
| 22 | 5/23/25 | 5/30/25 | 6/6/25 | 6/13/25 | 6/20/25 | 6/27/25 | Friday | 10am – 2pm |
*Dates Tentative