Prepared By :

Ms. Sameeksha Patial

Nursing Tutor
ACN
 Introduction
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Professional nursing curriculum includes
all the planned opportunities
subject matter,
learning activities,
that facilitates plans and implements in all settings for a
particular group of student for a specified periods.
 Definitions
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 Curriculum refers to running a course.
 Derived from the Latin word currere which means to run
for attaining the goals of education.
 Within the educational context, curriculum refers to a
course of study at a school, university; the subjects making
up a course; an educational journey that the learner
embarks upon.
(Brown, Lovat & Smith)
 Definitions
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 Cunningham: Curriculum is a tool in the hands of
an artist to mould his material according to his ideals
in his studios.
 Florence Nightingale international foundation:
Curriculum is a systematic arrangement of the sum
total of selected experience planned by a school for a
defined group of students to attain the aims of a
particular educational programme.
 Levels of curriculum
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 Societal Curriculum
 Institutional Curriculum
 Instructional Curriculum
 Societal Curriculum
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It refers to the curricula or parts of the curricula which
are planned for a large group or class of students .For
e.g.

 Group set up by national organization such as INC.

 Groups of experts in specialized subject area like

CHN, Medical surgical nursing, Nursing education,
Nursing research etc.
 Societal Curriculum

 They are more immediately concerned with
 Determining general characteristics of curriculum
content
 Sequence
 Implementation
 Likely to prepare type of nurse practitioner needed to
meet society’s needs for nursing.
 In the periods of great social change, many issues &
problems arise, as curricula undergo change.
 The government should provide financial resources for
training projects & for research for improving curricula.
 Societal Curriculum
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 Curriculum planning at societal level can be helpful to
schools, through stimulating, initiating and supporting
curriculum studies.

 Guides, which have been developed by outside groups

and experts, can be planned so that they are sufficiently
flexible to apply to different situations.

 The base of curriculum planning and organizations in

each situation should still be determined by the faculty of
each school.
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 It is planned by faculty for a clearly identified group of students
who will spend a specified time period in a particular
institution
 Cooperative planning through curriculum committee within
the school/colleges which looks at
 Broad base of facts
 Principles
 Understandings
 Skills
 Habits
 Attitudes
 Appreciations
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 Teacher has a right to participate and desire to find
opportunity for growth of student’s capacities through
contributive and constructing sharing of social progress.

 Voluntary and intelligent cooperation of all concerned is

needed.

 It requires a high degree of self discipline, integrity of

personal character and an ability to co-operate with others
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 It consists of the content (subject matter & learning
activities) planned day by day and week by week by a
particular teacher for a particular group of students.
 The curriculum is made in the classroom, for it is the
teacher who largely determines the educational fate of her
students by what & how she teaches.
 It may serve as a valuable guide to the teacher and the
student in the development of a course.
 The way in which the curriculum is interpreted in the
particular situation will influence the importance and the
amount of individual teacher planning.
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 If the curriculum is conceived to include all the
planned learning experiences of the student, it
will include;
 Essential facts, information, concepts,
meaning, principles.
 Activities that is necessary for the
development of skills, habits, attitudes, ideals
and appreciations.
 Methods that is useful in teaching,
supervising, guiding & evaluating results.
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Instructional curriculum includes-
 All the content planned by the teacher, experienced by the
students to achieve in the students the desired behaving
changes implicit in the educational objectives.
 subject matter, activities, methods, school & classroom
organization, clinical nursing experience.

 Educational objectives must be prepared to meet

immediate social needs.
 Teacher is part of curriculum since she is involved in the
situations that are responsible for development of
students.
 Principles
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 Conservative
 Forward looking principles
 Creativity
 Totality
 Activity
 Preparation for life
 Connecting to life
 Child centered
 Integration and correlation
 Comprehensives and balance
 Loyalties
 Variety and flexibility
 Steps In Curriculum
development

 Steps by Ralph Tyler:
1. Formulation of educational Objectives
2. Selection of learning experience
3. Effective and efficient organization of learning
experience
4. Evaluation of curriculum
 Other Steps in Curriculum
Development

 PLANNING

 DEVELOPMENT

 IMPLEMENTATION

EVALUATION
 Planning
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To determine the needs and purposes.
 Formulate the philosophy of education.

 Objectives should be formulated.

 Involve the influential personalities.

 Constitute a committee.

 Decide the philosophy and policy of the organization.

 Development

Organizing and sequencing of
 Theory
 Practical.
 Supervised clinical practices.
 Individual student rotation plan.
 Preparation of teaching-learning materials, A.V. aids.
 Curriculum committee,
 Reviews the progress,
 Identifies constraints,
 Assess needs for modification and
 Formation of other standing committees
 Curriculum
implementation

 Curriculum implementation is an essential part of
curriculum development because it is through
implementation that the intended changes, as
specified in the curriculum document, are applied in
practice.
 The implementation strategy could serve as a point
of reference for developing a personnel development
programme.
 Curriculum
implementation

 The members of curriculum committee act as a
consultant who advise educators on the
implementation of the curriculum.
 They also provide inputs during personnel
development session about the demands of the new
curriculum.
 Curriculum
implementation

 Actual Conduction of teaching- learning activities.
 Conducting practical sessions.
 Refinement of teaching learning methods.
 Assessment of student’s performance.
 Student guidance and counseling services.
 Health services.
 Curriculum committee meeting.
 Necessary actions.
 Curriculum
evaluation

 Assess the students learning.

 Teaching- learning process.

 Effective use of A.V. aids.

 Student’s activities undertaken.

 How effective educational experiences.

 Curriculum evaluation

 Five M for evaluation:
 Men
 Money
 Material
 Method
 Minutes
Factors influencing C.D
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 Philosophy of nursing education
 Educational psychology
 Society
 Students
 Life activities
 Job opportunities
 Teachers
 Health needs
 Evaluation system
 External forces( Statutory bodies)
Need and importance of
curriculum

 Realization of educational objectives
 Proper use of time and energy
 Acquisition of knowledge
 Determining structure of content
 Development of personality
 Preparation of text book
 Conducting examination
 Organizing teaching and learning situation
 Decision about instructional method
 Development of knowledge, skill and attitude
 Factors affecting
Curriculum Change

 Subject matter
 Learning experience
 Correlation between theory and clinical practices
 Selection of clinical learning experience
 Individual learner/Student
 Difference between
curriculum and syllabus

Curriculum Syllabus
It is based on the philosophy, goals Syllabus does not take into account
and values of education. these factors.

It refers to all the educational It refers to a list of unelaborated

activities of the school in the widest heading or book let
possible sense

Curriculum is the sum total of It is basically concerned with school

school subjects, learning subjects.
experiences and activities.
 Difference between
curriculum and syllabus

Curriculum Syllabus
There is prescribed co- curricular No prescribed co- curricular and
and extra curricular activities in the extra curricular activities in the
curriculum. syllabus.

Includes not only indoor activities Concerned with activities mostly

but also outdoor activities of the undertaken in the class room (in
school door activities)
It is an inclusive concept. It includes It is a part of a curriculum.
syllabus also.
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Thank you