Curricular Theories for Nursing as Process

Abstract

The University of Windsor, School of Nursing has just completed a curricular revision for its four year generic and three year post-diploma programmes. The integrated programmes are designed to provide the graduate with the skills required by the baccalaureate nurse to assume the responsibility and functions of a nurse practitioner in both primary and secondary care settings with the emphasis on optimal health of individuals, families and communities. The revised four year programme will be implemented in September, 1976; the post-diploma programme in September, 1977. After an intensive search of the literature, the faculty and students of the School of Nursing adopted Em. O. Bevis' Curriculum Building in Nursing: A Process as its curricular revision model. This model through a process or systems approach allows for the generation of a nursing curriculum with a theoretical base.