title: The Collaborative Improvement Model: An Interpretive Study of Revising a Curriculum.
abstract: Curriculum revisions in nursing programs are necessary to maintain currency and ensure that nursing students are prepared to competently practice nursing. Yet, the research for curriculum revisions in nursing education is sparse, leaving nursing educators with a thin evidence base upon which to revise curricula. The purpose of this phenomenological and hermeneutical study was to understand the experiences of faculty members and students who used the Collaborative Improvement Model (CIM) at a midwestern nursing department as an approach to revise their curriculum. The findings of this study demonstrate how the CIM (a) promoted student involvement in revising a curriculum, (b) facilitated faculty collaboration across two campuses with different campus cultures, (c) encouraged the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and (d) emphasized the need to use external facilitators when revising a curriculum. Faculty members in nursing programs can use this study when considering the CIM as a framework for revising their curricula.
authors.affiliation: Professor, Winona State University, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Winona, MN 55887.. Electronic address: cmnosek@winona.edu.
authors.forename: Catherine M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Nosek
authors.affiliation: Professor and Department Chairperson, Winona State University, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Winona, MN 55887.. Electronic address: mscheckel@winona.edu.
authors.forename: Martha M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Scheckel
authors.affiliation: Department Chairperson, Winona State University, College of Education, Winona, MN 55887.. Electronic address: twaterbury@winona.edu.
authors.forename: Theresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Waterbury
authors.affiliation: Director, Winona State University, Educational Improvement and Leadership, Winona, MN. 55987.. Electronic address: amacdonald@winona.edu.
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: MacDonald
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor, Winona State University-Rochester, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Heath Sciences Building 025,Rochester, MN 55904.. Electronic address: nwozney@winona.edu.
authors.forename: Nancee
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wozney
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum / Q000639:trends*; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D066297:Hermeneutics; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D015146:Midwestern United States; D013338:Students, Nursing
keywords: Collaborative improvement model; Curriculum; Curriculum redesign; Hermeneutics; Interpretive research; Phenomenology