Topic: Best Practices in Pediatric Emergency Nursing

6107 – Part One

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Textbook Reference: Iwasiw, C. L., & Goldenberg, D. (2015). Curriculum development in nursing education (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett.
In this assessment, you will select a nursing curriculum either from an academic setting, such as a school of nursing, or a clinical setting, such as a hospital staff development program. You will evaluate the selected nursing curriculum in detail and describe the organizing design or theoretical framework on which your selected curriculum is based. You will also need to examine how this design or framework is demonstrated in the curriculum. Possible organizing designs or frameworks include simple-to-complex, stages of illness, nursing conceptual framework, concept-based, outcomes based, competency-based, interdisciplinary, and others.

Requirements
Your overview and analysis of the curriculum should fulfill the following:

· Identify an appropriate nursing curriculum, the intended learner population, and why it is needed.

· Provide the mission statement and course descriptions for all courses in a selected curriculum.

· Describe the established professional standards, guidelines, and competencies incorporated in the program.

· Describe the student learning outcomes of a selected nursing program.

· Recommend a process to update health care knowledge in a selected nursing curriculum.

· Explain how an organizing design and theoretical framework or model is demonstrated within a selected nursing curriculum.

· Provide an overview of the history of a selected organizing design and theoretical framework or model.

· Describe the major concepts of a selected organizing design and theoretical framework or model.

Additional Requirements
· References: Include references from at least three peer-reviewed journal articles, cited in proper APA format (6th edition). No older than 5 years old.

· Length of analysis: The analysis should be 5–7 pages in length, not including the title page and the reference page, and it must follow proper APA style and formatting.

· Appendix: You may use an appendix for appropriate material, such as individual course descriptions. The appendix will not be included in the page count for the analysis.

· Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.