Caring Science Nurse Education Certificate Program (NECP)

A program of three courses for nurses who are passionate about being nurse educators who embrace a humanistic caring philosophy to student learning.

To enroll in this program please follow this link. 

Continuing Education Credits:

The American Nurses Credentialing Center has approved the course for the award of nursing
continuing professional development contact hours.
All students who pass the course (graded pass/fail) will be awarded 32 PD contact hours.

Cost:

$500 CAD, all inclusive, payable upon course enrollment. In addition, students will need the course textbook: Creating a Caring Science Curriculum 2nd Edition (available in the WCSI Caring Store).

About the Program:

Offered by the Global Alliance for Human Caring Education and led by its founding director, each of these self-paced courses will guide you in:

  • Four weeks of guided self-paced content
  • Weekly assigned readings of course text (Creating a Caring Science Curriculum: A Relational and Emancipatory Pedagogy for Nursing)
  • Weekly Reflective Learning Activities
  • Weekly dialogue in a Discussion Forum with peers and facilitator

About the Courses:

  • Module 1 – Foundations of Caring Science Pedagogy and Curriculum Development (pre-requisite for Modules 2 & 3)
  • Module 2 – Caring Science Pedagogy
  • Module 3 – Caring Science Curriculum Development

What You’ll Learn:

  • How to base nursing education programs on Caring Science philosophies/theories
  • How your beliefs and values influence your Caring Science pedagogy and curriculum development
  • How to teach from your Caring Science pedagogical framework
  • How to evaluation students’ clinical and classroom performance from a Caring Science perspective

For any questions or concerns please email: humancaringeducation@gmail.com