title: Capturing the curriculum: a curriculum maturation and transformation process.
abstract: The author discusses an approach to successful curriculum revision that provides faculty with a renewed sense of individual and collective ownership of curriculum change. The framework for curriculum revision includes the components of commitment, change, collaboration, collegiality, consensus, communication, closure, and celebration, and the processes used to actualize these concepts.
authors.affiliation: Allen College, 1825 Logan Ave, Waterloo, IA 50703, USA. kramerna@ihs.org
authors.forename: Nancy Ann
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Kramer
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003142:Communication; D032921:Consensus; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards*; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007484:Iowa; D017145:Models, Educational; D020380:Needs Assessment; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods*; D012944:Social Support; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires