Nationwide faculty development: a model for a shift from diploma to baccalaureate education

• Published in: Journal of advanced nursing Vol. 16; no. 3; p. 362
• Main Authors: Bevis, E O, Krulik, T
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 01.03.1991
• Subjects: Curriculum; Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate - standards; Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate - trends; Education, Nursing, Diploma Programs - standards; Faculty, Nursing - standards; Humans; Israel; Learning; Organizational Innovation; Organizational Objectives; Planning Techniques; Schools, Nursing - organization & administration; Israel
• ISSN: 0309-2402
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1991.tb01661.x

Many countries are in the process of moving nursing education from 2-year or 3-year diploma programmes to institutions of higher education. This paper reports on a national project in Israel in which diploma school faculties were retooled for baccalaureate teaching. Among many issues associated with this shift are two addressed by this paper: what are the essential differences between diploma and baccalaureate education and how can faculty be developed so that the change is substantive and not the same type of education with a different label? The authors propose: (a) more radical changes must occur in the preparation of faculty for there to be substantive differences in the graduates; (b) the objectives curriculum model widely exported from the USA promotes training for technical levels of nursing and inhibits true education for professional practice; (c) there are six types of learning, not one, and the difference between technical and professional nursing education lies in the types of learning emphasized by faculty.