Personal Thoughts about the Certified Nursing Educator Test
Friday I took a test. It was, hands down, the hardest test I have ever taken (even harder than the State Nursing Board - NCLEX) test. It is a national test for certification as a nurse educator. Here is a description from the NLN (National League of Nurses): Certification in any field is a mark of professionalism. For academic nurse educators, it establishes nursing education as a specialty area of practice and creates a means for faculty to demonstrate their expertise in this role. It communicates to students, peers, and the academic and health care communities that the highest standards of excellence are being met. By becoming credentialed as a Certified Nurse Educator (CNE), you serve as a leader and a role model. The reason this test was so hard was because: 1. They used a lot of big words that I had to learn and understand 2. The testers wrote the test to be at a "Higher Order Thinking" or in other words a very difficult level. ...