A curriculum framework for nursing

Nursing education has struggled for decades to develop a framework that would adequately reflect nursing and provide a stable yet dynamic curriculum for nursing education. Unfortunately, most of the frameworks the profession has used in the past either were adapted from other disciplines or based on processes, concepts, and theories that were too narrow to serve in the capacity of a unifying framework. Perhaps it is time that nursing begins to focus more on the profession's epistemological forest than on isolated trees when developing and selecting curricular frameworks. This article offers a framework that may help us do just that.