NLN's Certified Nurse Educator Review The Official National League for Nursing Guide

Written by expert researchers, educators, and professionals who collaboratively design standards and national certification exams for professional nurses, the CNE Review Book is the definitive guide for faculty pursuing the CNE credential. Based on the revised 2012 practice analysis, this book is an essential text for aspiring certified nurse educators and all nurse educators across the academic spectrum.


Each of the book’s chapters addresses one of the eight competencies required for the practice of academic nursing education. Special features include:

• Sample test questions developed by the Certification Test Development Committee of the NLN Certification Commission
• Extensive bibliography of the most current literature addressing each competency
• How-to applications of content to the educator’s practice.

Linda Caputi, EdD, RN, CNE, ANEF, is the editor of the “Innovation Center,” a column in the National League for Nursing’s journal Nursing Education Perspectives.She is a certified nurse educator and a fellow in the NLN’s Academy of Nursing Education. She is professor emerita, College of DuPage, and most currently taught in an online master’s in nursing education program. She has won six awards for teaching excellence from Sigma Theta Tau and is included in three different years in the Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. The second edition of her book Teaching Nursing: The Art and Science was selected as the winner of the 2010 Top Teaching Tools Award in the print category from the Journal of Nursing Education. She has recently completed a three-year term on the NLN’s Board of Governors.
She is also president of Linda Caputi, Inc., a nursing education consulting company, and has worked with hundreds of nursing programs over the past 20 years on topics related to revising curriculum, transforming clinical education, test-item writing, and test construction, using an evidence-based model for NCLEX® success, assisting with accreditation, and numerous other nursing education topics.

About the EditorAbout the Contributors ForewordPreface 
Chapter 1: Facilitate Learning Jan M. Nick, PhD, RNC-OB, CNE, ANEF
Chapter 2: Facilitate Learner Development and Socialization Susan Luparell, PhD, CNS-BC, CNE
Chapter 3: Use Assessment and Evaluation Strategies Gail Baumlein, PhD, RN, CNS, CNE, ANEF
Chapter 4: Participate in Curriculum Design and Evaluation of Program OutcomesLinda Caputi, EdD, RN, CNE, ANEF
Chapter 5: Pursue Systematic Self-Evaluation and Improvement in the Academic Nurse Educator Role Wanda Blaser Bonnel, PhD, RN, GNP-BC, ANEF
Chapter 6:  Function as a Change Agent and Leader Theresa M. “Terry” Valiga, EdD, RN, CNE, FAAN, ANEF
Chapter 7: Engage in Scholarship of Teaching Marilyn Frenn, PhD, RN, CNE, FTOS, ANEF
Chapter 8: Function Effectively within the Organizational Environment and the Academic Community Nancy C. Sharts-Hopko, PhD, RN, CNE, FAAN
Appendix A: Guide to Educational Learning Theories Appendix B: Answers to Practice Test Questions 
Index