Curriculum Development in Nursing Education: .

Curriculum Development in Nursing Education: .

Curriculum Development in Nursing Education, Third Edition provides nursing students with the theory and practical ideas necessary to develop an evidence-based, context-relevant, unified curriculum. Throughout the text the authors guide students to develop this type of curriculum with an emphasis on a concept-based curriculum. The Third Edition also emphasizes the importance of a conceptually and visually unified curriculum and offers ideas on how to achieve this throughout the text. <br>The Third Edition focuses on the concepts of faculty development, ongoing appraisal, and scholarship which are new to nursing education literature. This text includes a chapter dedicated to each of these concepts: curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation as well as concrete examples around how to execute them. New content also addresses development, implementation, and evaluation of a curriculum offered via distance learning. <br><br>New to the Third Edition:<br>‚¬ Continued emphasis on the development of evidence-informed, context-relevant, and unified nursing curriculums <br>‚¬ New sections on designing a concept-based curriculum and concept-based courses<br>‚¬ Exploration of new ideas around readiness for curriculum implementation including fidelity of implementation<br>‚¬ Expanded section on distance learning in nursing education featuring ideas around exemplary teaching<br><br>Key Features:<br>‚¬ Specific examples around the development of an evidence-based curriculum<br>‚¬ In-depth coverage of the role of faculty development, ongoing appraisal, and scholarship as core processes of curriculum work<br>‚¬ Instruction for how to design concept based courses<br>‚¬ Brain-based learning