Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Curricula in Nursing and Midwifery Education

The book's main goals are to highlight the various phases and aspects of curriculum development and to offer a broad international perspective on the topic. It provides an overview of the international status quo of the theory development and seeks to promote an ongoing international discussion and cooperation in curriculum work in nursing and midwifery education.

Part I - Empirically based development of curricula.- Chapter 1: From wish to family: stressing a preconception period in a curriculum as an important part of midwifery scope of practice.- Chapter 2: Curriculum development in nursing education on the basis of paradigmatic work tasks.- Chapter 3: A Curriculum on the Basis of qualification research.- Chapter 4: Key problems in interprofessional collaboration in midwifery as starting point of curriculum development.- Part II - Methods and principles of curriculum construction.- Chapter 5: Competency-based curriculum development and implementation in nursing education.- Chapter 6: Nursing Curriculum development: A United States Perspective of Baccalaureate Nursing Education.- Chapter 7: Situations-based Curriculum Construction.- Part III - Implementation and evaluation of curricula.- Chapter 8: Evaluation of the Oregon Health Sciences Curriculum.- Part IV - Interesting Examples.- Chapter 9: Development of the Oregon Health Sciences Curriculum- An Innovative, Competency Based Curriculum in the US.- Chapter 10: Development of the European curriculum for family and Community nurse.- Chapter 11: Embedding Sustainability in the Nursing Curriculum.- Chapter 12: Curriculum Development in Interprofessional Education in Health.