The Curriculum Blueprint: An Application to Nurse Practitioner Education |
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| Authors: | Judith T FullertonPhD CNM Sheila M PickwellPhD CFNP |
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| Institution: | Certified Nurse-Midwife Assistant Dean for Joint Programs, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, Associate Professor of Clinical Family Medicine, Department of Community and Family Medicine, University of California, San Diego.;Family Nurse-Practitioner Assistant Clinical Professor, School of Nursing, University of California, San Diego, and University of California, San Francisco. |
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| Abstract: | A psychometric model for the construction of examinations (the test construction process) is adapted as a conceptual framework for curriculum design. The outcome of the process, the curriculum blueprint, is proposed as particularly advantageous for nurse practitioner education, which is somewhat unique among nursing specialties in its need to accommodate the competing demands of several regulatory or educational approval bodies that influence the content of its curriculum. The curriculum blueprint provides a visual dimension and therefore is useful as a communication tool. An excerpted example of a curriculum blueprint is offered. |
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