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Priorities for Research in Nursing Education

Innovations in Nursing Education: Creating Reform
  • New pedagogies
  • Use of instructional technology, including new approaches to laboratory/simulated learning
  • Flexible curriculum designs
  • Community-driven models for curriculum development
  • Processes for reforming nursing education
  • Educational systems and infrastructures
  • Student/teacher learning partnerships
  • Community-based nursing and service learning strategies
  • Clinical teaching models
  • Teaching evidence-based practices
  • New models for teacher preparation and faculty development


Evaluation Research in Nursing Education: Evaluating Reform

  • Economics of and productivity in nursing education
  • Quality improvement processes
  • Program evaluation models
  • Student and teacher experiences in schools of nursing
  • Nursing education innovations, including facilitators and barriers to innovation and reform
  • Best practices in teaching and learning
  • Grading, testing and evaluation of students, faculty and curricula


Development of the Science of Nursing Education: Evidence-based Reform

  • Best practices in teaching and learning
  • Nursing education database development
  • Meta-analysis related to Innovation or Evaluation in nursing education
  • Concept analysis related to Innovation or Evaluation in nursing education

NOTE: Multi-site, multi-method, and multi-paradigmatic studies that extend knowledge of schooling, learning, and teaching in nursing will be given priority.

Approved by the NLN Board of Governors, May 16, 2003