G. Beddome et al., EDUCATION AND PRACTICE COLLABORATION - A STRATEGY FOR CURRICULUM-DEVELOPMENT, The Journal of nursing education, 34(1), 1995, pp. 11-15
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.