title: Education and practice collaboration: a strategy for curriculum development.
abstract: Five schools of nursing in British Columbia formed a collaborative partnership in 1989; four represented diploma programs, and one a post-RN program. Their partnership benefited each in the development of a baccalaureate nursing curriculum. Committed to the principle of a curriculum being driven by practice, rather than the reverse, the collaborative partners employed a variety of strategies to include nurses from practice in the development of the curriculum. One strategy used by the partnership was a Delphi survey of nurses in practice. This article describes the results of this survey and their implications for nursing curricula.
authors.affiliation: Nursing Faculty, Okanagan University College, Kelowna, British Columbia.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Beddome
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Budgen
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Hills
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Lindsey
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Duval
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Szalay
mesh_terms: D001955:British Columbia; D003479:Curriculum; D003697:Delphi Technique; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004510:Education, Nursing, Diploma Programs; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D009732:Nursing Care; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D011361:Professional Competence; D011364:Professional Practice; D012579:Schools, Nursing