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The nursing curriculum is ever dynamic and has metamorphosed into a completely new school of knowledge and practice over the years. The development of the curriculum has enabled the transformation of the nursing image and profession into a more sophisticated and knowledge-oriented one. This attribute, in this perspective, where there was an intention to develop a nursing curriculum in that nursing staff would be taught on follow up, proved essential. The massive benefits that come with the curriculum include low readmission rates as well as reduced post-discharge complications. Consequently, analysis of the curriculum forms the basis of this paper that seeks to provide a description and outline its benefits.
Description of intended learners
Nurses provide essential care to patients and combine pharmacological medical and supportive intervention to guarantee faster healing. All these efforts are necessary because nurses spend more time in the bedside area and attest that therapeutic interventions alone cannot heal patients. Therefore, nurses intended learners in this curriculum mostly provide holistic care to the patients in addition to being part of the support framework of the patient. Nurses in the context of this curriculum will be taught on the dynamics of the provision of follow up in patients discharged from their respective work stations. The curriculum will enable the nursing workforce to understand the dynamics involved in the delivery of these essential services to their clients.
The rationale of the program
Cohen et al. (2018) posit that follow up care in patients with chronic and acute conditions alike over time, reducing the risk of readmission into the hospital setting. In the excerpt, authors outline that follow-up care in the past had been dismissed as not provided definitive care due to lack of equipment in the home setting. However, this perception is gradually losing ground due to the adoption of primary health care in various jurisdictions around the world. The adoption of primary care entails availing services in the community setting, which could be expounded to follow up from the health facility. Therefore in my view, this program is essential in ensuring that continuity of care occurs, which is beneficial to clients.
The mission statement of the program
Follow up care purposes to ensure the continuity of care from the hospital setting to the home setting enabling the patient to heal completely. The mission statement of this program resonates with this initiative as it purposes to “provide exemplary knowledge for the provision of auxiliary health services”. In this program, primary health care will be listed as a course as it is the main framework in which the program will be provided. The program will also include community health services as a course in addition to dispatch health services. Moreover, the program will also include essential emergency healthcare should the patient develop complications. The four courses will be provided in the program that targets nursing staff to provide follow up services.
Embedded professional standards, guidelines, and competencies in the program.
The program targets nurses currently providing services in the hospital setting, making it imperative to apply professional ethics and standards. Medical ethics, including human autonomy, justice, beneficence, non-maleficence should apply in the provision of services in follow up care (Dunn & Hope, 2018). These standards, in addition to community health principles, were included in the curriculum development of the program. These attributes are essential in ensuring that the knowledge dispensed to the nurses aligns them with nursing standards and expectations which require a well-informed individual. Moreover, the in cooperation of the rules and guidelines which include continuous professional development purposes to ensure formative evaluation is carried out.
Student learning outcomes
The nursing curriculum is robust and often requires dedication from the prospective nurse to transform into a novice professional. In this context, the practising nurse providing follow up care will undergo the program in addition to undertaking competency evaluation every year. This evaluation will occur after the provision of renewed guidelines synonymous to newly introduced guidelines at the time. The process will ensure that the respective nurses conform to the guidelines put in place by regulatory health authorities.
Inclusion of technology
Technology will form the basis for the transfer of knowledge in that it will be utilized to provide virtual classes to the nurses. Virtual classes will be beneficial to the nurses taking into consideration the prevailing professional work engagements. Moreover, proceeding evaluations will be carried out in a virtual platform except for certification. In this way, technology will be fully incorporated into the curriculum. In this way, the program will meet the needs of the nurses who in most times, have more working hours that inhibit movement to attend physical classrooms. Kadivar et al. (2016) posit that virtual classes in nursing reduce the hassle experienced by practising providers in the effort to receive an education. In this context, the formative evaluation will also be carried out in an online perspective, making it even easier for the nurses. Additionally, in my view, the formulation of this program will enable nurses to achieve adequate care in that the therapeutic relationship ends with the complete rehabilitation of the patient.
References
Cohen, M. E., Jaffe, A., Strauch, C. B., Lewis, S. K., Lebwohl, B., & Green, P. H. (2018). Determinants of follow-up care for patients with celiac disease. Journal of clinical gastroenterology, 52(9), 784-788.
Dunn, M., & Hope, T. (2018). Medical ethics: a concise introduction. Oxford University Press.
Kadivar, M., Seyedfatemi, N., Zolfaghari, M., Mehran, A., & Hossinzade, Z. (2016). The impact of virtual-based education on nurses’ self-efficacy in level II neonatal care. نشریه پرستاری و مراقبت های ویژه, 9(4), 0-0.