C922 Emerging Trends and Challenges in 21st Century Nursing Education

CURRICULUM TECHNOLOGY PROPOSAL Executive Summary Nursing education has undergone a paradigm shift to integrate and implement technology to revolutionize the delivery of higher education to enhance the learning experience, ensure learner success, and improve learning outcomes. Technology in nursing education provides numerous advantages to the classroom setting including ease of access to course content, flexibility to review material from any location that has internet services and provide learners ample amount of resources to develop critical thinking, autonomy, and a higher order of thinking. The introduction of technology into nursing education has modernized the modes of instruction by standardizing curriculum which is tailored to benefit all learning styles to ensure competency, success, and enhancement of the future of nursing practice. A precisely organized and methodical curricular needs assessment was performed to determine the differences in current practice or knowledge and current evidence-based best practices related to the implementation of nursing education via survey of stakeholders and critical evaluation of current and prior learning activities for baseline information. Findings suggested that the introduction of a curricular technology change, namely, the Lippincott Solution platform, to the curriculum will be beneficial to learner success, institution reputation, and enhance the overall infrastructure of nursing education within this institution. Stakeholder alignment with the implementation of the Lippincott Solution platform was obtained with the interest of providing learners with the best possible chance of success through streamlined, standardized, and evidence-based modalities of teaching that assists learners with superior skill acquisition, development of critical thinking, and higher order cognitive functioning to prepare them to translate theory to practice.