The FINE Center is an overarching way of organizing and connecting efforts focused on nursing education for synergistic outcomes. It provides a structure to coordinate efforts for preparing nurses who wish to become nurse educators, system leaders in healthcare education, and/or researchers who will develop the science of nursing education.

You will find four key areas in the Center:

• Educator preparation
• Educator development
• Scholarship/Research
• International education

These serve as the major organizing structure to create the future of nursing education.

You will also find internationally recognized faculty ready to help you along your career journey.

We equip nurses who will become faculty as educators, scholars, leaders, and/or researchers with skills to prepare learners for practice in increasingly interdisciplinary, interprofessional, international, and technologically sophisticated healthcare settings.

Gain new skills and sharpen existing talents through these programs

• MSN in Nursing Education
• Post-master’s certificate in Nursing Education
• PhD with focus on nursing education
• DNP with focus in leadership for healthcare education
• BSN and RN to BSN with electives focused on nursing education

Offering orientation for adjunct and full-time faculty to ensure the use of evidence-based education practices in a variety of learning environments.

• New faculty receive comprehensive orientation to teaching among skilled nurse educators—in the classroom, in the clinical environment, and using distance technologies
• Faculty can participate in professional development about teaching, assessment/evaluation, course and curriculum development, faculty role, promotion and tenure, and research

The FINE Center and Office of Research Support work to develop scholars and researchers to generate and translate education science to improve clinical practice, healthcare systems, and patient outcomes.