EDUCATION AND PRACTICE COLLABORATION - A STRATEGY FOR CURRICULUM-DEVELOPMENT

Five schools of nursing in British Columbia formed a collaborative par tnership in 1989; four represented diploma programs, and one a post-RN program. Their partnership benefited each in the development of a bac calaureate nursing curriculum. Committed to the principle of a curricu lum being driven by practice, rather than the reverse, the collaborati ve partners employed a variety of strategies to include nurses from pr actice in the development of the curriculum. One strategy used by the partnership was a Delphi survey of nurses in practice. This article de scribes the results of this survey and their implications for nursing curricula.