Nationwide faculty development: a model for a shift from diploma to baccalaureate education.
Many countries are in the process of moving nursing education from 2-year or 3-year diploma programmes to institutions of higher education. This paper reports on a national project in Israel in which diploma school faculties were retooled for baccalaureate teaching. Among many issues associated with this shift are two addressed by this paper: what are the essential differences between diploma and baccalaureate education and how can faculty be developed so that the change is substantive and not the same type of education with a different label? The authors propose: (a) more radical changes must occur in the preparation of faculty for there to be substantive differences in the graduates; (b) the objectives curriculum model widely exported from the USA promotes training for technical levels of nursing and inhibits true education for professional practice; (c) there are six types of learning, not one, and the difference between technical and professional nursing education lies in the types of learning emphasized by faculty.
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Department of Nursing, Georgia Southern University, South California.
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D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*; D004510:Education, Nursing, Diploma Programs / Q000592:standards*; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D007858:Learning; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010934:Planning Techniques; D012579:Schools, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*