Strategies for Faculty Development in Nursing Education

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Nursing curricula and scholarly activities are shaped by complex and competing forces. At present there are powerful drivers for extensive curriculum renewal: This presents an opportunity for the nursing professing to develop creative curriculum blueprints that accommodate and lead innovation. Academics and clinicians involved in the education of nurses must aim to build their own and student capabilities and maintain processes to improve and sustain graduate outcomes that are consistent with consumer and health service needs. Curricula must be responsive to innovations in practice and learning and teaching. Knowing about the trends, challenges and drivers from both the health care and the higher education sectors is central to faculty development and capacity building. Informed direction can come from a range of sources including the government, professional literature, and external advisory committees and student feedback.
The curriculum renewal process itself ought to challenge existing long held ideas, practices, and sacred cows within the health and higher education sectors. There is much to consider and importantly curriculum developers need to be mindful of reform within the health sector and health workforce education, as well as the concomitant vision and requirements of the nursing profession. Curriculum must develop more than discipline knowledge and skills : it must provide an infrastructure for generic abilities both social and intellectual in order to better prepare students for the registered nurse role. This paper discusses a number of forces that are essential to consider in curriculum development in undergraduate nursing education.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Drivers of change
• Contemporary Contexts of Practice and rationale for renewal
• Responses to Macro level Reform
• Reform of Higher Education
• Developing a Model for Practice and Education : Reform in action
• An Abilities-Based Conceptual Framework for Nursing
• Crafting the Framework for Renewal : Faculty and Curriculum Blueprints
• Conclusion
• References