What is it about?
This study aims to explore the lived experience of learning for a group of staff nurses in the Middle East, who undertook a post‐registration nursing education programme in the speciality of nephrology nursing (the NNP) between 2001 and 2002. The broad‐based curriculum seeks to develop the staff nurses into active learners, able to utilise a new body of specialist nursing knowledge and skills, which challenges their previous behaviourist learning tradition. This study seeks to identify the students' experience of trying to incorporate new learning strategies into their practice, and the effects they experienced as a result.
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Curriculum development in developing countries should aim to prepare practitioners to meet international standards. However, such development has to take account of, and integrate, students' values, beliefs, and experiences, and acknowledge their particular challenges with respect to learning. The preparation for active learners has to include the “tools” to cope with, and change, the cultural and organisational situation in which they find themselves, including knowledge of an organisation's culture to facilitate effective learning to fit the needs of the workplace.
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The research explored the views of nurses undertaking, in 1997, the first post graduate specialist nursing programme for the Ministry of Health in the Sultanate of Oman, and perhaps within the Arab region. It was commissioned by the World Health Organisation Middle East Office. Two senior lecturers were recruited, one from UK, and another from USA, with complementary expertise, who together developed the innovative programme for Oman. Prior to this, the Ministry had had to send their nurses abroad, at considerable cost to the Ministry. This programme became the first of many purpose specific in-house post graduate specialist nursing programmes for the country https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56890-0_30
Doctor Jane C Bridger
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This page is a summary of: From passive to active learners, Employee Counselling Today, February 2007, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/13665620710728466.
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