title: Re-inventing the wheel: a case study of nursing curriculum innovation.
abstract: This paper reviews the literature concerned with active learning methods in British nurse education. A case study is presented describing the introduction of assisted independent learning to a cohort of student nurses in a district general hospital school of nursing in England. The implications, advantages and problems associated with such curriculum innovation are discussed and some areas for further study are identified.
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing; D004739:England; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D011380:Programmed Instructions as Topic; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology