The Application of Prevailing Trends and How These Trends Influence Curricular Design
Discussion
Purpose
The purpose of this discussion is to explore how prevailing trends in healthcare influence curricular design to ensure relevant and contemporary practice.
Instructions
Review this week’s lessons and readings. Consider the increasing healthcare needs and complexity of your practice problem idea and the connection to the Global Burden of Disease and social determinants of health. Then, respond to the following:
- Propose steps the nurse educator can take to remain knowledgeable and responsive to prevailing healthcare trends when creating and revising a curriculum that is contemporary, relevant, and either prepares nursing students for practice or enhances nursing practice in the clinical setting.
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Program Competencies
This discussion enables the student to meet the following program competencies:
- Integrates scientific underpinnings into everyday clinical practice. (POs 3, 5)
- Applies organizational and system leadership skills to affect systemic changes in corporate culture and to promote continuous improvement in clinical outcomes. (PO 6)
- Uses analytic methods to translate critically appraised research and other evidence into clinical scholarship for innovative practice improvements. (POs 3, 5)
- Appraises current information systems and technologies to improve health care. (POs 6, 7)
- Analyzes health care policies to advocate for equitable health care and social justice to all populations and those at risk due to social determinants of health. (POs 2, 9)
- Creates a supportive organizational culture for flourishing collaborative teams to facilitate clinical disease prevention and promote population health at all system levels. (PO 8)
- Translates a synthesis of research and population data to support preventative care and improve the nation’s health. (PO 1)
- Leads others in professional identity, advanced clinical judgment, systems thinking, resilience, and accountability in selecting, implementing, and evaluating clinical care. (POs 1, 4)
Course Outcomes
This discussion enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
- Analyze educational theories and their influence on teaching and learning strategies in nursing. (PCs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; POs 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
- Design nursing curricula using a synthesis of educational theory, using best evidence from the literature, and current and prevailing healthcare trends, accreditation, and regulatory standards. (PCs 1, 3, 5, 7, 8; POs 1, 2, 3, 5)
- Design teaching and learning strategies using a synthesis of educational theory, best evidence from the literature, and prevailing trends in clinical and academic learning environments to facilitate learner development and socialization. (PCs 2, 4, 5, 6, 8; POs 1, 3, 4, 6, 8)