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Unit II: Curriculum
- Curriculum Development: An Overview
- Forces and Issues Influencing Curriculum Development
- Philosophical Foundations of the Curriculum
- Curriculum Designs
- Developing Curriculum: Frameworks, Outcomes, and Competencies
- Selecting Learning Experiences to Achieve Curriculum Outcomes
- Service Learning: Developing Values and Social Responsibility
- 5. Curriculum Development: An Overview
- Curriculum Standards A collection of documents available online from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
- Developing Knowledge for Practice - National Nursing Research Agenda "1" Full text online document; National Institute of Nursing Research.
- Innovation in Nursing Education: A Call to Reform, Approved August 22, 2003; position Statement from the National League for Nursing, full-text online.
- Agencies and Organizations
- American Association of Colleges of Nursing
- American Nurses Association
- Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
- Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing
- National League for Nursing Includes accreditation standards and much more.
- National Council of State Boards of Nursing This site contains information on practice acts, licensure, NCLEX board exams, specific state boards of nursing links and much more.
- National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties
- Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Canada
- 6. Forces and Issues Influencing Curriculum Development
- Academic Health Centers: Leading Change in the 21st Century Linda T. Kohn, Editor, Committee on the Roles of Academic Health Centers in the 21st Century; 216 pages, 2003. Available full-text online from the National Academies Press.
- American Association of Colleges of Nursing Strategic Plan FY2007-2008.
- Being Fluent with Information Technology By the Committee on Information Technology Literacy, National Research Council; 128 pages, 1999. Available full-text online from the National Academies Press.
- The Center for the Health Professions From the University of California, San Francisco; Pew Health Professions Commission; under Publications includes executive summary of Recreating Health Professional Practice for a New Century, the full-text of Critical Challenges: Revitalizing the Health Professions for the Twenty-First Century (1995), and other publications.
- Curriculum Standards A collection of documents available online from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
- The eHealth Landscape: A Terrain Map of Emerging Information and Communication Technologies in Health and Health Care Overview and link to the online version of the book by Thomas R. Eng, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
- Education for Professional Nursing Practice: Looking Backward Into the Future Online article by Martha A. Nelson, PhD, RN, from the Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, May 31, 2002, vol. 7, no. 3.
- The Epidemiological Transition: Policy and Planning Implications for Developing Countries James N. Gribble and Samuel H. Preston, Editors; Committee on Population, National Research Council 288 pages, 1993. Available full-text online from the National Academies Press.
- The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century By the Committee on Assuring the Health of the Public in the 21st Century, 400 pages (approximate), 2002; full-text online, from National Academies Press.
- Global Trends 2015: A Dialogue About the Future With Nongovernment Experts A report from the Central Intelligence Agency, December, 2000, available online from the Federation of American Scientists.
- Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality Ann C. Greiner, Elisa Knebel, Editors, Committee on the Health Professions Education Summit; 192 pages, 2003. Available full-text online from the National Academies Press.
- Healthy People 2010 web site and Healthy People 2010 2nd edition Table of Contents to full-text online.
- Innovation in Nursing Education: A Call to Reform, Approved August 22, 2003; position Statement from the National League for Nursing, full-text online.
- Linking Public Health Nursing Practice and Education to Promote Population Health Program overview and project activities reports from the Public Health Nurse Consultants site of the Office of Public Health Practice, Minnesota Department of Health.
- A National Agenda for Nursing Workforce Racial/Ethnic Diversity, 2000. A 49 page report from the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice, Nursing Division of the Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration.
- Nursing Strategy for Canada A report from the Canadian Nursing Advisory Committee.
- Nursing's Agenda for the Future From the American Nurses Association.
- Population Projections for States by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 1995-2025 From the U.S. Census Bureau.
- The Roles of Academic Health Centers in the 21st Century: A Workshop Summary From the Committee on the Roles of Academic Health Centers in the 21st Century, Linda T. Kohn, Editor 54 pages, 2002; full-text online, from National Academies Press.
- Today's Registered Nurse: Numbers and Demographics From the American Nurses Association.
- When Care Becomes a Burden: Diminishing Access to Adequate Nursing By Claire M. Fagin, February 2001; available full-text online from the Milbank Memorial Fund.
- Who Will Keep the Public Healthy? Educating Public Health Professionals for the 21st Century Kristine Gebbie, Linda Rosenstock, and Lyla M. Hernandez, Editors, Committee on Educating Public Health Professionals for the 21st Century; 320 pages, 2003; full-text online, from National Academies Press.
- Journals
- Modern Healthcare Weekly Business News related to the hospital and healthcare industry.
- Online Journal of Issues in Nursing An open-access online journal courtesy of Kent State University College of Nursing and the American Nurses Association's NursingWorld.
- Vital Statistics of the United States Includes link to Series Reports (also know as the Rainbow Series). From the National Center for Health Statistics.
- Agencies and Organizations
- American Association of Colleges of Nursing
- American Nurses Association
- American Nurses Credentialing Center
- American Nursing Informatics Association
- Association of Community Health Nursing Educators
- Council on Graduate Education for Administration in Nursing
- Health Resources and Services Administration
- International Council of Nurses
- International Network for Doctoral Education in Nursing
- National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- National Center for Health Workforce Information and Analysis Health Resources and Services Administration U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
- National Council of State Boards of Nursing This site contains information on practice acts, licensure, NCLEX board exams, specific state boards of nursing links and much more.
- National Federation of Licensed Practical Nurses
- National Institute of Nursing Research
- National League for Nursing - NLN
- National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission - NLNACIncludes Interpretive Guidelines by Program Type.
- National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing
- Science Panel on Interactive Communication and Health
- 7. Philosophical Foundations of the Curriculum
- Advanced Practice Nursing: A New Age in Health Care "Nursing Facts" from the American Nurses Association.
- Classic Texts and Manuscripts in Education From the School of Education, University of Colorado at Denver.
- Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice (TIP) Database This database includes summaries of 50 learning and instruction theories. The theories can be accessed by learning domains and concepts.
- Feminism and nursing By Julie Hunt RN, Intensive Care Cart BN(Hons), MC(NSW) Clinical Nurse Specialist, Intensive Care Unit St Vincent's Private Hospital; from St Vincent's Healthcare Campus, Sisters of Charity Health Service, Darlinghurst, Australia, 1998 Nursing Monograph.
- Nightingale Initiative for Global Health Inc. The purpose of the site is to provide "for nurses and holistic health advocates from many disciplines — an ongoing Learning Co-Operative Initiative that provides opportunities to learn, share, collaborate and build community for a healthy world."
- Grand Nursing Theories A collection of links to web resources by Mary Bennett DNSc, RN, Indiana State University.
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy James Fieser, PhD, general editor and Bradley Dowden, PhD, assistant general editor. Provides overviews by a variety of authors on a broad range of philosophical topics via a search engine or key word index.
- Is Caring Inherently Good? Essay by Barbara Applebaum, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, from the Philosophy of Education Yearbook, of the Philosophy of Education Society.
- Nurse Manifest A site dedicated to exploring the values and nature of nursing, and applying those values world wide. Includes materials from An Emancipatory Study of Nursing Practice.
- Peggy L. Chinn, RN, PhD, FAAN Homepage Includes 1991 presentation titled Theories of the Heart and Practices of the Mind: The Future of Feminist Nursing Scholarship.
- Philosophical Beliefs From the York University School of Nursing, Canada. An example of mission statement.
- A Philosophy of Nursing Education Slide set by Peggy L. Chinn, RN, PhD, University of Connecticut.
- Shaping Nursing Knowledge and Practice, The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, CWRU Magazine, Fall 1998, Case Western Reserve University; available full-text online.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Supplement to Feminist Perspectives on the Self A bibliography by Diana Meyers.
- Journals
- Educational Theory on the Web From the Department of Educational Policy Studies College of Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Founded by the John Dewey Society and the Philosophy of Education Society.
- Agencies and Organizations
- American Association of Colleges of Nursing
- American Nurses Association
- American Nurses Credentialing Center
- Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory
- Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing
- National League for Nursing - NLN Includes accreditation standards and much more.
- National Council of State Boards of Nursing This site contains information on practice acts, licensure, NCLEX board exams, specific state boards of nursing links and much more.
- National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties
- Sigma Theta Tau International The Nursing Honor Society.
- 8. Curriculum Designs
- Is a master's degree in your future? By Linda Finke RN, PhD; online article from Sigma Theta Tau International.
- Joint Position Statement on Education for Nurses in Administrative Roles From the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and the American Organization of Nurse Executives; a Supplement to The Essentials of Master's Education for Advanced Practice Nursing.
- Nursing's Agenda for the Future From the American Nurses Association.
- Nursing Education's Agenda for the 21st Century Full-text online from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
- National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC) Includes Interpretive Guidelines by Program Type. Includes Master's Degree Nursing Programs; Baccalaureate Degree Nursing Programs; Associate Degree Nursing Programs; Diploma Nursing Programs; and Practical Nursing Programs.
- Journals
- Journal of Undergraduate Nursing Scholarship An online journal from the University of Arizona.
- Nursing Outlook Full-text articles are available to AAN members and personal subscribers starting from 2000 to the present; abstracts, references, and PDFs are available from 1995 to the present. Access to tables of contents and abstracts is complimentary.
- Agencies and Organizations
- 9. Developing Curriculum: Frameworks, Outcomes, and Competencies
- The Center for the Health Professions From the University of California, San Francisco; Pew Health Professions Commission; under Publications includes executive summary of Recreating Health Professional Practice for a New Century, the full-text of Critical Challenges: Revitalizing the Health Professions for the Twenty-First Century (1995), and other publications.
- Delta Omega Classics Includes the full-text online of Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not by Florence Nightingale; requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to download; from the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health.
- Grand Nursing Theories A collection of links to web resources by Mary Bennett DNSc, RN, Indiana State University.
- National Survey of Student Engagement A program "designed to obtain, on an annual basis, information from scores of colleges and universities nationwide about student participation in programs and activities that institutions provide for their learning and personal development." Launched with support from The Pew Charitable Trusts and self-supported through institutional participation fees and grants from Lumina Foundation for Education and the Center for Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College. Administered by the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research in cooperation with the Indiana University Center for Survey Research.
- Neuman Systems Model Website From Neumann College.
- Nursing Theories Links to web resources from the meta-site Nurses Info, developed and supported by the Australian Nursing Agency.
- Nursing Theory Link Page By Lisa Eichelberger, from Department of Nursing, Clayton College and State University; includes items on Abdellah, Henderson, Fitzpatrick's Life Perspective Rhythm Model, Levine, King, Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort, Betty Nueman and Margaret Newman.
- Nursing Theory Network An extensive site on all aspects of nursing theory. Includes overview of each theory and a collection of links to relevant web sites.
- The Nursing Theory Page An extraordinary resource, available from the Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, University of San Diego.
- Roy Adaptation Model
- Unitary Health Care: Martha Rogers' Science of Unitary Human Beings An extensive site from the UK.
- Agencies and Organizations
- 10. Selecting Learning Experiences to Achieve Curriculum Outcomes
- Assessing Research-Doctorate Programs: A Methodology Study Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Charlotte V. Kuh, Editors, Assisted by James A. Voytuk, Committee to Examine the Methodology for the Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs, National Research Council; 164 pages, 2003. Available online from the National Academies Press.
- Agencies and Organizations
- Office of Research Integrity From the Public Health Service.
- Sigma Theta Tau InternationalThe Nursing Honor Society.
- 11. Service Learning: Developing Values and Social Responsibility
- The big dummy's guide to service-learning: 27 simple answers to good questions on: faculty, programmatic, student, administrative, & non-profit issues. Developed by Mark Cooper, Coordinator, The Volunteer Action Center, Florida International University.
- Business-Higher Education Forum A partnership of the American Council on Education and the National Alliance of Business.
- Expert Preceptor Interactive Curriculum (EPIC) "A faculty development curriculum in clinical teaching for community practitioners who serve as preceptors to health professions students"; an extensive site that requires registration, but is free; CME requires fees.
- National Service-Learning Clearinghouse Includes a separate section on Higher Education.
- Agencies and Organizations
- Campus Compact A coalition of college and university presidents committed to the "civic purposes of higher education". Includes a set of resource links to other web resources.
- Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Center for the Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in Health From the Division of Public Health, New York Academy of Medicine.
- Corporation for National and Community Service
- Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning (University of Michigan)
- National Society for Experiential Education
- Service Learning Institute, California State University Monterey Bay
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| Needs Assessment | Preceptorship |
| Models, Educational | Educational Technology |
| Programmed Instruction | Diffusion of Innovation |
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