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An Innovative Approach To Adult Education In A Two-Year Bscn Program: Creating Partnerships In Learning, Baiba Zarins, Lorraine M. Carter Dr., Tammie Mcparland
An Innovative Approach To Adult Education In A Two-Year Bscn Program: Creating Partnerships In Learning, Baiba Zarins, Lorraine M. Carter Dr., Tammie Mcparland
Quality Advancement in Nursing Education - Avancées en formation infirmière
Abstract
In the program described in this paper, innovation in nursing education is presented as a response to specific tensions between academic and practice environments in the nursing field. As a unique partnership between a university in northern Ontario and three health care delivery organizations in a large urban environment, the Scholar Practitioner Program (SPP) is an accelerated two-year post degree leading to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
Using narrative inquiry and cognitive apprentice pedagogies, SPP partners developed an experiential program in which students act as inquirers and co-creators as opposed to receivers of knowledge. Students are also immersed …