DESCRIPTION
The National League for Nursing and American Association of Colleges of Nursing recently called for a transformation in current nursing curricula. Numerous national initiatives and research findings indicate a need for drastic change in the way that students are prepared to become safe, novice nurse generalists. This workshop explores the changes that are needed and how to begin making them. Specific focus will be on how to move from a disease-based model to a nursing model and how to use concepts in an organizing framework. Newer pedagogies to learn and understand concepts to make appropriate and timely clinical decisions will also be discussed.

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

• Explain why nursing curricula are changing across the country.
• Identify key national developments that are influencing change in nursing curricula.
• Describe the need to move from a disease-based curricular model to a nursing/interdisciplinary (ID) care model.
• Discuss how nursing concepts can be used in new curricular paradigm.
• Identify two new evidence-based pedagogies that are being used in student-centered learning curricula.