Overall Activities

  • Conduct research assessing pedagogies and didactics most appropriate for northern nursing education;
  • Share best practices amongst northern nursing educators at biannual TN meetings, and a concomitant survey tracking northern nursing education programs, pedagogical models, and recruitment & retention rates;
  • Establish an Innovative Learning Institute for Circumpolar Health to allow northern nursing students to meet and learn from their counterparts around the Circumpolar North;
  • Evaluate the regulation of nursing practice in a northern context across the circumpolar North;
  • Explore different uses of technology, including remote presence technology, to improve accessibility and quality of clinical instruction and continuing education by using technology to develop pedagogics suitable for health care students in the high north; and
  • Facilitate the transfer of knowledge between circumpolar health researchers, and nursing educators and students.

 

NNEN Field School

 

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