title: Developing a statewide nursing consortium, island style.
abstract: This article describes the transformational changes in the scope and pedagogy of nursing education within a state university system through the development of the Hawaii Statewide Nursing Consortium (HSNC) curriculum. Modeled after the Oregon Consortium for Nursing Education, the HSNC used a community-based participatory approach to develop the curriculum to support all students within the state who are eligible to earn a baccalaureate degree. The curriculum was designed as a long-term solution to the anticipated shortage of nurses to care for Hawaii's diverse population. It is also an effort to increase capacity in schools of nursing by making the best use of resources in the delivery of a baccalaureate curriculum that offers exit opportunities after the completion of an associate degree. Finally, it provides new ways of educating students who will be better prepared to meet Hawaii's health needs.
authors: Hawaii Statewide Nursing Consortium, Honolulu, HI 96825, USA. magnusse@hawaii.edu
authors: Lois
authors: L
authors: Magnussen
authors: Victoria
authors: V
authors: Niederhauser
authors: Charlene K
authors: CK
authors: Ono
authors: Nancy Katherine
authors: NK
authors: Johnson
authors: Joyce
authors: J
authors: Vogler
authors: Clementina D
authors: CD
authors: Ceria-Ulep
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum; D004507:Education, Nursing, Associate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D006254:Hawaii; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000600:supply & distribution*