Overcoming challenges to collaboration: nurse educators' experiences in curriculum change.
This article describes challenges to effective collaboration encountered by nurse educators as they transformed a unit within a school of nursing in Taiwan. This study introduced collaborative action research as a vehicle for curriculum change. Although the team achieved positive outcomes in transforming a unit, the collaborative process was complex with four major challenges: meaning, time, work culture, and conflicting views. This article provides an overview of the study, and the major challenges posed by working together are expounded and illustrated with excerpts drawn from the study data. Possible reasons for the challenges, how these challenges were overcome, and facilitation of the collaborative process are discussed.
Department of Nursing, Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China. ckchiang@ctust.edu.tw
Ching-Kuei
CK
Chiang
Helen
H
Chapman
Ruth
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Elder
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum; D034462:Dissent and Disputes; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D017145:Models, Educational; D016294:Models, Nursing; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education; D036301:Qualitative Research; D013624:Taiwan; D013997:Time Factors