Course Development and Influencing Factors
Description
Preparation
As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
How might the policies for continuing education credits in a clinical setting or school impact curriculum?
How might these requirements affect the design of health-related curricula?
What criteria are used for incorporating continuing education units and continuing medical education into the design of the curriculum?
Requirements
Design a course to be included in your selected nursing curriculum. In your course design:
Describe an appropriate course to include in a selected curriculum.
Provide a rationale for adding a course to a selected curriculum.
Suggest a topical outline for a course to be added to a selected curriculum.
Explain with whom and how faculty members would collaborate when considering the new course within a selected curriculum design.
Explain and describe how internal factors such as organizational processes, curriculum committees, and internal review bodies affect curriculum design.
Explain and describe how external factors such as funding, stakeholders, and regulatory and accrediting agencies affect curriculum design.
Explain how the mission, philosophy, and framework of the program and parent institution impact curriculum design.
Describe the type of collaboration between external and internal stakeholders that will be needed throughout a process of curriculum development.
You will use this assessment to complete Assessment 3. Be sure to incorporate the feedback you receive before adding this assessment to Assessment 3.
Additional Requirements
References: Include references from at least two peer-reviewed journals that are not listed in the resource activities, cited in proper APA format.
Length of design: The course design should be 6–8 pages in length, not including the title page and the reference page, and must follow proper APA style and formatting.
Course outline: Include the course outline as an appendix. The appendix will not be included in the page count for the assessment.
