Innovation in nursing education

Abstract

Higher education programs work to expand their educational capacities by applying innovative strategies to meet future labor needs in all over the world. Nursing educators report that innovation required for the radical changes in nursing curriculum. Among the most important reasons for this requirements are showed that more than content to be installed on existing curriculum, repeating the same content on different courses, not taking into account the issues which the students want to learn by nursing educators, not enough supporting the innovative approaches and the use of electronic learning tools. In the litarature of nursing education innovation is provided by producting new knowledge and skills or replacing nursing curriculum. In this changing curriculum, educators not only the person who directs the course but also work to improve students’ intellectual and critical thinking, clinical decision making and care giving skills. To educate qualified nurses for meeting the expectations of globalizing world, implementing innovative strategies to nursing education has become mandatory. The purpose of this study is emphasizing the importance of two factors for the development of nursing education by using innovative strategies. These factors are, developing common educational strategic plans for the common future vision by higher nursing education institues and integration the innovative strategies on the nursing curriculum which supports developing the students’ professional knowledge and skills.