Curriculum Development in Nursing Education : An Integrated Framework

Dr. Carroll Iwasiw is the former director of the Western University Ontario School of Nursing and oversaw the introduction of a university-college collaborative BScN program. She led the development of a nursing management curriculum in Russia in 1995-1998 and the first BScN curriculum in Rwanda in 2005-09. Dr. Iwasiw has chaired the Council of Ontario University Programs in Nursing and is chair of the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing Accreditation Bureau. She is a recipient of a teaching excellence award from the Ontario Council of University Faculty Associations and has been named a World Expert in Nursing Education by the World Health Organization.

Dr. Dolly Goldenberg is the former Chair of Graduate Programs in Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University'Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. She is the author and co-author of numerous peer-reviewed articles on nursing education, curriculum, evaluation, and nursing administration, as well as a reviewer for several peer-reviewed nursing journals. Currently, she is a co-founding editor of the on-line International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship. Dr. Goldenberg has served as a mentor and co-investigator for graduate nursing students with their research, and particpated in assessments of nursing faculty applicants for Research Grants to the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada. She was a co-investigator for the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities' Articulation Study, which led to Ontario's university-college collaborative baccalaureate nursing programs. Dr. Goldenberg received the Excellence in Nursing Education Award from Iota Omicron Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau for her achievements in teaching, curriculum development, and evaluation. She has been active in nursing program evaluation, and consults about program development, revision, as well as accreditation.

Dr. Andrusyszyn is currently the Director of the Arthur Labatt School of Nursing. She has served on the Board of Accreditation of the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing, the Nursing Education Advisory Council for'the'province of Manitoba, and the Ministerial Council on Nursing Education in Manitoba. She was a former Chair of the Brandon University School of Nursing and Health Studies in Manitoba. Dr. Andrusyszyn coordinated an international development program for nurses from Botswana and conducted faculty development workshops across the country related to facilitating online learning as well as curriculum renewal.'