Nursing Education Field Experience – C946

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more
than a 10% match to any one individualsource can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if
cited correctly. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used
to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect
titles may contain hyperlinksto relevant portions of the course.
Create your Curriculum Proposal using the attached “Curriculum Proposal Template” and by doing the
following:
A. Complete the “Introduction” section of your curriculum proposal. Be sure to include a brief summary of
each of the following:
• academic setting you observed during your clinical/practice experience (CPE)
• curriculum gap or need that you identified in the academic setting of your CPE
• the course you are proposing to address the curriculum gap or need
• theoretical framework that underlies your proposal
• purpose of the curriculum proposal document and an overview of the structure of the document
B. Complete the “Literature Review” section of your curriculum proposal by doing the following:
1. Submit a literature review summary table using 10 peer-reviewed, scholarly resources from the
nursing, education, or change theory literature and attach the table to your proposal as an appendix.
2. Describe the curriculum gap or need you observed, including potential causes, within the context of
an established nursing, education, or change theory.
3. Summarize the findings of the scholarly resources you reviewed in part B1 and how they support
your specific course proposal.
C. Complete the “Application of the ADDIE Model” section of your curriculum proposal by writing a brief
overview of the purpose and process of each phase of the ADDIE model.
D. Complete the “Proposal Analysis Phase” section of your curriculum proposal by doing the following:
1. Describe each of the following aspects of the academic setting:
• the program level of the course you are proposing
• knowledge and skills of the typical learner in the academic setting from your CPE
• the learning environment and method used to deliver instruction to students
2. Describe the procedures you followed to complete your needs assessment and gap analysis,
including the roles, qualifications, and reason for including the stakeholders you involved. Do not
include the actual names of stakeholders.
3. Summarize the current and desired states of the curriculum as identified during your meetings with
stakeholders.
4. Describe how your curriculum proposal will address the gap or need identified in part B2.
5. Describe the results of your Force Field Analysis, including each of the following:
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• organizational strengths and situational factors that could support the adoption of your
curriculum proposal and how you can leverage these factors to your advantage
• organizational weaknesses and situational factors that could limit the adoption of your
curriculum proposal and how the negative impact of these factors can be mitigated
E. Complete the “Proposal Design Phase” section of your curriculum proposal by doing the following:
1. Describe the independent and collaborative procedures you followed to create the course syllabus
you submitted during your CPE.
2. Analyze how a new student would interpret the course description you included in your course
syllabus.
3. Analyze the course objectives you included in the course syllabus with regards to their
measurability and consistency with your proposed curriculum change.
4. Describe how each of the following elements of your syllabus are supported by current learning
theories and evidence-based practice and how each will support learning in your academic setting:
• teaching strategies
• instructional delivery methods
• learning materials
5. Analyze one student learning outcome (SLO) that you included on the syllabus. Be sure to include
each of the following in your analysis:
• Bloom’s cognitive level of the SLO
• expected student performance level of the SLO
• how the SLO can be measured
• how the SLO aligns with the course objectives
6. Justify why the course and grading policies you chose support the course objectives and overall
goals of the curriculum proposal.
F. Complete the “Proposal Development Phase” section of your curriculum proposal by doing the
following:
1. Describe the independent and collaborative procedures you followed to create the course materials
(i.e., course content, assessments, and learning resources) you submitted during your CPE.
2. Describe how your learning resources and scenario-based learning activity will support student skill
development and encourage reflective practice.
3. Discuss how your chosen formative assessment activity will measure student progress and identify
potential areas for improvement as the student progresses through the module.
4. Discuss how summative objective assessment data can be used in the future to ensure that your
curriculum proposal is meeting its intended goals.
5. Justify how your summative performance assessment represents an authentic activity that is
relevant to you chosen curriculum proposal.
G. Include each of the following deliverables from your CPE as tables in the appendix of your curriculum
proposal. Be sure to label each attachment sequentially as a separate table, figure, or appendix, and
refer to each in your text as needed:
• affinity diagram
• curriculum need-gap analysis table
• force field analysis (FFA)
• course syllabus
• course materials, including the following:
– course unit overview
– lecture content
– learning resources
– learning activities

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• assessments, including the following:
– formative assessment
– summative objective assessment (10 items with answer key)
– summative performance assessment (including rubric)
H. Submit your formal narrative paper in APA style, including but not limited to title page, headers, in-text
citations, and references.
I. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.