The most of the stakeholders and faculty have support and help the development of undergraduate nursing curriculum. For example, obtaining support from faculty colleagues, school leader, society, healthcare stakeholders, and students (Iwasiw and Goldenberg, 2015). Faculty colleagues can provide and discuss their …show more content…
There are four strategies that faculty can use separately or in combination to identify influential forces and issues environment scanning, forecasting, epidemiology, and survey research and consensus building” (Veltri and Warner, 2012, p. 103). The aim of environmental scanning is for leaders and administrators to become conscious of general directions and events assuming health care and higher education mostly and nursing specifically (Veltri and Warner, 2012). Environmental scanning let faculty to be jointly reactive and proactive. In this case, the faculty can select a relevant future trends for nursing curriculum.
According to the Carroll and Dolly, “contextual factors are those forces, situational, and circumstances that exist both within and outside the school of nursing and have the potential to influence the school and its program” (Iwasiw and Goldenberg, 2015, p. 144). Contextual factors influence the school of nursing and nursing program because there are some contextual environments mixture and …show more content…
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