Education for nurses and allied health professionals is being radically overhauled both in the UK and overseas. Curriculum Development in Nursing offers nurse educators a single text that covers curriculum development processes, and highlights case study examples on innovation in approaches to nurse education.

Written by internationally well-known authors based in South Africa, who take a truly international perspective looking at education in the UK, Europe and the US, as well as Africa and the Middle East, this book is an essential guides to curriculum development and will be an invaluable resource for nurse educators and postgraduate nursing students internationally.

Table of Contents

1. Education Philosophy and the Curriculum 2. An Overview of the Process of Curriculum Development 3. Establishing the Context and Foundations 4. Developing a Macro-Curriculum 5. Developing a Micro-Curriculum 6. Implementing a New Curriculum 7. Curriculum Evaluation 8. A Problem-Based Learning Curriculum 9. A Case-Based Curriculum 10. Developing Problem Scenarios and Cases 11. Developing a Community-Based Nurse Education 12. Developing an Outcomes-Based Curriculum 13. A Curriculum for Interprofessional Learning 14. Conclusion

Education for nurses and allied health professionals is being radically overhauled both in the UK and overseas. "Curriculum Development in Nursing" offers nurse educators a single text that covers curriculum development processes, and highlights case study examples of innovation in approaches to nurse education. The book has been written by internationally well-known authors based in South Africa, who take a truly international perspective looking at education in the UK, Europe and the US, as well in Africa and the Middle East.
This book will be an essential guide to curriculum development and will be an invaluable resource for nurse educators and postgraduate nursing students internationally.

This is a substantially revised edition of the 1985 Nursing: humane scientific health care of Uys and Mulder. It is now a textbook for a first-year nursing student and incorporates the following: A foundation for the basic four elements of nursing; general nursing: basic nursing care in terms of activities of daily living; midwifery: growth and development, nutritional aspects and family assessment and intervention; community health nursing: assessment and intervention in terms of communities, as well as environmental health; mental health nursing: psychosocial aspects of nursing; care of individual, family and community, care of not just individual patients; activities of living of healthy people and the preventative and promotive aspects of basic nursing care, not just sick people and their needs; district health and the primary health care.

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