Running head: CONTEMPORARY CURRICULUM DESIGN 1
C920 Contemporary Curriculum Design and Development in Nursing Education
Western Governors University CONTEMPORARY CURRICULUM DESIGN 2
Contemporary Curriculum Design and Development in Nursing Education
Course Modules
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Learning environment
DeWitty, Huerta, and Downing (2016) purport that the Academic Nurse Educator’s role is
to cultivate a safe and structured learning environment that is both intellectually stimulating and challenging. Such an environment provides learners with the opportunity to develop their knowledge, skills, attitudes, and competencies required to successfully transition from the student nurse to a competent autonomous practicing nurse. The course elements included in each module of The Role of the BSN Nurse in Promoting Community Health provides learners with an environment that stimulates the learning process through intellectually stimulating, challenging, and thought-provoking learning activities, and allows the development of the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and competencies essential to the community health nurse.
Module 1. Introduction to community & public health nursing. The course elements included throughout this module create an environment that is intellectually stimulating and challenging and require the learner to examine the evolving roles and responsibilities of the community and public health nurse, analyze the differences between the two, and understand their respective roles within a complex health care system. This allows the learner to obtain a working knowledge of the community and public health nurse and how community health systems and policies influence the scope of practice.
The scenario-based learning activity will be an unfolding case study, where learners will individually complete a random case study, then divide into groups with other learners that had
C920 Contemporary Curriculum Design and Development in Nursing Education
Western Governors University CONTEMPORARY CURRICULUM DESIGN 2
Contemporary Curriculum Design and Development in Nursing Education
Course Modules
See Attached/Uploaded Document.
Course-Related Information
Learning environment
DeWitty, Huerta, and Downing (2016) purport that the Academic Nurse Educator’s role is
to cultivate a safe and structured learning environment that is both intellectually stimulating and challenging. Such an environment provides learners with the opportunity to develop their knowledge, skills, attitudes, and competencies required to successfully transition from the student nurse to a competent autonomous practicing nurse. The course elements included in each module of The Role of the BSN Nurse in Promoting Community Health provides learners with an environment that stimulates the learning process through intellectually stimulating, challenging, and thought-provoking learning activities, and allows the development of the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and competencies essential to the community health nurse.
Module 1. Introduction to community & public health nursing. The course elements included throughout this module create an environment that is intellectually stimulating and challenging and require the learner to examine the evolving roles and responsibilities of the community and public health nurse, analyze the differences between the two, and understand their respective roles within a complex health care system. This allows the learner to obtain a working knowledge of the community and public health nurse and how community health systems and policies influence the scope of practice.
The scenario-based learning activity will be an unfolding case study, where learners will individually complete a random case study, then divide into groups with other learners that had
