Abstract
A Fulbright Scholar’s Experience: Irish Nursing Education History and Change via Curriculum and Staff Development Perspectives
Highlights
IntroductionNew descriptions of the role of the nurse and the demands of research and evidence-based practice shape the development of the evolving curricula as undergraduate nurse education moved from hospital-based programs to higher education settings, universities and institutes of technology
This paper aims to describe the national and international contexts of this move and to predict nursing practice for the future which arises from the guidelines of An Bord Altranais
In the new model leading to degree level nursing outcomes, the learner will have travelled in the vehicle of a carefully planned curriculum
Summary
New descriptions of the role of the nurse and the demands of research and evidence-based practice shape the development of the evolving curricula as undergraduate nurse education moved from hospital-based programs to higher education settings, universities and institutes of technology. Bound up with this process, was the changing role of the nurse lecturer in the new educational setting. This paper describes the journey of one university-based, School of Nursing in the Republic of Ireland This is a historical moment which warrants documentation for Irish history and can serve as a nursing educational model for others. “One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
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