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Valuing Curriculum Evaluation As Scholarship: A Process Of Developing A Community Of Scholars (Valoriser L’Évaluation De Programmes D’Études Comme Forme De Scholarship : Un Processus De Création D’Une Communauté De Chercheuses), Betty Tate, Marilyn Chapman, Cheryl Zawaduk, Doris Callaghan
Valuing Curriculum Evaluation As Scholarship: A Process Of Developing A Community Of Scholars (Valoriser L’Évaluation De Programmes D’Études Comme Forme De Scholarship : Un Processus De Création D’Une Communauté De Chercheuses), Betty Tate, Marilyn Chapman, Cheryl Zawaduk, Doris Callaghan
Quality Advancement in Nursing Education - Avancées en formation infirmière
Curriculum evaluation is an essential and complex activity intended to foster understanding of how teaching-learning practices serve to meet educational goals. This position paper provides a retrospective from the authors' lived experience of one multi-institutional collaborative nursing programs' history of curriculum evaluation and scholarship growth over twenty-five years. Key themes include an overview of collaborative curriculum evaluation underpinned by three philosophical perspectives, the influence of accreditation and re-mandated post-secondary institutions on scholarship development, an affirmation of curriculum evaluation as a form of knowledge development as supported by Boyer’s model of scholarship, and the development of scholarship expertise across collaborative partners …
Producing Flexible Nurses: How Institutional Texts Organize Nurses’ Experiences Of Learning To Work On Redesigned Nursing Teams (Préparer Des Infirmières Polyvalentes : Comment Des Documents Officiels Orientent Les Expériences D’Apprentissage Des Infirmières En Fonction Du Travail Au Sein D’Équipes Reconfigurées), Diane L. Butcher, Karen Mackinnon, Anne W. Bruce
Producing Flexible Nurses: How Institutional Texts Organize Nurses’ Experiences Of Learning To Work On Redesigned Nursing Teams (Préparer Des Infirmières Polyvalentes : Comment Des Documents Officiels Orientent Les Expériences D’Apprentissage Des Infirmières En Fonction Du Travail Au Sein D’Équipes Reconfigurées), Diane L. Butcher, Karen Mackinnon, Anne W. Bruce
Quality Advancement in Nursing Education - Avancées en formation infirmière
The purpose of this qualitative research was to utilize an Institutional Ethnographic (IE) lens to trace how various institutional (regulatory, educational, union, governmental, or health authority) texts and resources organize baccalaureate (RN) and diploma (vocational or practical) nurses’ experiences of learning to practice on acute care teams. Functional care models have been introduced in acute care, creating RN-LPN-health care aide (HCA) teams in conjunction with expanded practice scopes for LPNs. Questions arise as to how nurses (RNs and LPNs) learn to work together on these intra-professional teams. Beginning from the standpoint of front-line workers provides an entry-point into understanding how …