: NURS 4455 Module 5 Assignment 1 Overview: Organizational Analysis – Your Experience

: NURS 4455 Module 5 Assignment 1 Overview: Organizational Analysis – Your Experience

Hello Brenda. The importance of learning needs assessment in the development of a curriculum cannot be understated. Course curricula in nursing education are in the process of continued development and enhancement to cater to the increasing complexity of the healthcare environment in which nursing learners are trained to navigate. The curriculum is a planned learning experience that includes educational components such as a training session for the entire education program (Raffing et al., 2023). The lack of learner consideration can lead to the inclusion of objectives that the nursing learner is already conversant with, leading to a waste of the educators’ and learners’ time. There is also the risk of excluding objectives that learners are not knowledgeable thereby risking patients’ health and safety (Raffing et al., 2023). Therefore, a learner needs assessment is critical and should be an integrated component of course development.

Nursing education needs to prioritize learner needs assessment, which should be the basis of the development of the nursing curriculum. It helps the nurse educator answer “Why?” when planning teaching materials. In nursing education, the needs of the learner should take priority (Schneiderhan et al., 2019). It involves attitudinal and knowledge-based needs or even reading of the student to learn. However, it sometimes includes the patients and the communities for which the learner is caring. In the needs assessment process, the nurse educator considers the available information concerning the learner and collects new information. The process for obtaining this new information can be structured, semi-structured, and data-driven (Schneiderhan et al., 2019). The nurse educator then writes the rationale statement, which documents the basic findings of the learner needs assessment.

References

Raffing, R., Larsen, S., Konge, L., & Tønnesen, H. (2023). From targeted needs assessment to course ready for implementation—a model for curriculum development and the course results. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(3), 2529. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032529

Schneiderhan, J., Guetterman, T. C., & Dobson, M. L. (2019). Curriculum development: A how to Primer. Family Medicine and Community Health, 7(2). https://doi.org/10.1136/fmch-2018-000046

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