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:: Volume 9, Issue 4 (September-October 2016) ::
Educ Strategy Med Sci 2016, 9(4): 285-294 Back to browse issues page
Develop proposed strategies to implement integration strategy in nursing curriculum in Iran
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Background and Aims: Integration strategy is one of the most important sterategies that recently has used for improving quality of nursing curriculum. The aim of this study was to determine how to implement integration strategy in the curriculum of nursing America, Canada and Australia and suggested strategies for its operationalization in iran nursing curriculum.

Methods: This comparative study was done according to Beredy’s model:  Description, interpretation, juxtaposition, and comparison. The population was the documentation of world nursing colleges. The samples were totally top 10 colleges of 3 countries: USA, Australia, and Canada who were selected by purposive sampling. Inclusion criteria was applying integration strategy in B.A. nursing curriculum. In order to collect data, 5-step implementation of the integration strategy based on a list of 29 questions designed to  Changiz et al study  (2006). The validity of documents collected through internal cash and external criticism was investigated.Data analysis was performed according to Beredy’s model.

Results: Based on applying this strategy, proposed methods for applying integration strategy are vertical and horizontal integrative- integrative by collaborative teaching and particular integration by core in various colleges.

Conclusions: using the successful experiences of top nursing schools in the world to implement integration strategy in nursing curriculum, can improve the nursing curriculum in Iran.

Keywords: Curriculum undergraduate nursing, integration strategy, Bredey’s Model
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Article Type: Original Research | Subject: New Approaches to Curriculum Design
Received: 2016/07/28 | Accepted: 2016/12/30 | Published: 2017/01/15
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