Curriculum Changes

Hey everyone. I got an e-mail from Debbie O'Sullivan, the President of the Student Nurses' Association that the faculty at Delta College is investigating changing the nursing curriculum. They've already made some proposals and they're looking for student input. They should be having a meeting in the near future, but I don't have a date at the moment. Here are some of the proposed changes in brief, because I didn't want to print out the entire e-mail here. The proposed course list changes can't affect us, but the changes will impact the teaching future nursing students at Delta receive. If you would like a copy, feel free to e-mail me or give my your e-mail in class and I can forward them to you. There are 4 different documents that outline changes. Here's the summary:


Proposed Course List:
First Semester:
ADN 001 Fundamentals of Nursing
ADN 002 Introduction to Medical Surgical Nursing
ADN 003a Pharmacology for Nursing A

Second Semester:
ADN 004 Reproductive, Maternal and Newborn Nursing
ADN 005 Infancy to Young Adult Nursing
ADN 003b Pharmacology for Nursing B

Third Semester:
ADN 006 Neuro-Psychiatric Nursing
ADN 007 Intermediate Medical Surgical Nursing
ADN 003c Pharmacology for Nursing C

Fourth Semester:
ADN 008 Advanced Medical Surgical Nursing
ADN 009 Transition to Practice


Explanation of Proposed Changes to Philosophy and Course Conceptual Model:


Mission statement is elaborated in proposed curriculum to be more aligned with the college mission statement in order to meet NLN and BRN criteria. Updated verbiage includes references to 21st century and outcomes-based education.

The statement regarding Person is shorter in that the need to explain the former Open Systems philosophy no longer exists in proposed curriculum.

Environment is added in philosophy because it constitutes part of the Conceptual Model of the Organizing Framework.
Also, Environment is added
in response to CCR1426 (a) " ...It shall also take into consideration concepts of
nursing and man in terms of nursing activities,
the environment, the health-illness continuum,
and relevant knowledge from related
disciplines."

Philosophy statement regarding nursing is updated to include ANA references

Nursing Education statement modified to describe the Client Needs model and note that the curriculum is outcomes-based in nature.

Health/Illness Continuum added in response to CCR1426 (a) " ...It shall also take into consideration concepts of
nursing and man in terms of nursing activities,
the environment, the health-illness continuum,
and relevant knowledge from related
disciplines."