Conceptual

Framework : The
Setting
 Educational Setting
trends
Type of Education
Setting,
Philosophy, and
objectives of
Sponsoring
Educational Setting
Trends
 Nursing schools are
educational enterprises and
such their natural affinity is
for settings that are
educationally organized and
have as their primary
commitment educational
endeavours.
Educational Setting
Trends
(1948) Brown recommended a
gradual transfer of nursing
education responsibilities
from service institutions to
institutions to institutions of
higher learning.
mended a gradual transfer of nursing education responsibilities from service institutions to institutions to institutions

Educational Setting
Trends
Montag provided the spark that
lighted the way for the
nationwide development of
nursing schools in the
educational setting of the
associate of arts college and
thus the eventual current
trend and outcome of nursing
education at two levels, that
is, baccalaureate and
associate of arts.
Educational Setting
Trends
 (1965) American Nurses Association
took a definitive and firm stand
on the educational preparation
for nurse practitioners and
assistants to nurses. In a position
paper four statements
emphasized with heavy print
unequivocal support for the
position that education for those
who work in nursing should
take place in institutions of
learning within the general
Educational Setting
Trends
These four statements are
reproduced for emphasis.


a. The education for all those



who are licensed to practice

nursing should take place in
institution of higher
education.

Educational Setting
Trends
These four statements are
reproduced for emphasis.


b. Minimum preparation for



beginning professional nursing

practice at the present time
should be baccalaureate
degree education in nursing.

Educational Setting
Trends
These four statements are
reproduced for emphasis.


c. Minimum preparation for



beginning technical nursing

practice at the present time
should be associate degree
education in nursing.

Educational Setting
Trends
These four statements are
reproduced for emphasis.


d. Education for assistants in



the health service occupations

should be short, intensive
preservice programs in
vocational education
institutions rather than on-the-
job training programs.

Educational Setting
Trends

Jo Eleanor Elliott, President of
the American Nurses’
Association, when the
position paper was finally
passed said that the
position paper recognizes
the realities of today and
sets directions for the
future.
Educational Setting
Trends
The time from Brown’s pointing
the way, through Montag’s
illustration of feasibility and
means, to the American
Nurses’ Association’s
definitive stands was
seventeen years. To state that
the American Nurses’
Association position was a
reflection of a fait accompli as
well as prophecy of the future
Educational Setting
Trends
However, the profession cannot
devalue the remarkable fact
that a body whose members
were predominantly educated
in hospital schools of nursing
took a stand in the interest of
society that supported a
movement that will culminate
in the obsolescence of their
own basic nursing preparation.
Educational Setting
Trends
School of nursing that are not
integral parts of educational
institutions are anachronistic
remnants of a way of
responding to society’s
nursing needs. (no longer
exists)
Educational Setting
Trends
Today’s educational system for
nursing is a monument for a
former highly successful
system of hospital training
for nursing, since only
successful systems has the
capacity for change in
response to changed
conditions and needs.
Educational Setting
Trends
(1978) Convention of the
American Nurse’s
Association passed the 1985
Resolution which stated that
entry into professional
practice shall be at the
baccalaureate level, the
specific nature of the future
educational system for
Educational Setting
Trends
Nursing moves in spite of a
current numerical
inadequacy, more and more
toward institutions of higher
learning and it moves more
and more toward a division
of associates of arts degree
nursing from baccalaureate
degree nursing.
Educational Setting
Trends
One of the first tasks of any
curriculum development
group must be the
examination of its setting to
determine compliance with
the four propositions cited
from the American Nurse’s
Association position paper.
Schools of nursing that do not
meet these basic criteria need
first to identify ways and
means of establishing
themselves within the
Type of Education Setting ,
Philosophy , and Objectives
of Sponsoring Institution

The type, character, and

attributes of the agency
within which nursing takes
place influence the concepts
that form the construct for
the setting.
Type of Education Setting ,
Philosophy , and Objectives
of Sponsoring Institution

Every institution that sponsors of

school of nursing has a reason
for its existence.
Hospitals have characters under
which they operate, and
frequently they have larger
sponsoring agencies behind
them.
Type of Education Setting ,
Philosophy , and Objectives
of Sponsoring Institution

For instance, some hospitals are

agencies of local of federal
government, some are
sponsored by churches or
religious orders, some are
privates and sponsored by
individuals of group of
individuals, and some are
branches of colleges and
universities.
Type of Education Setting ,
Philosophy , and Objectives
of Sponsoring Institution

 Hospital schools of nursing

reflect the philosophies and
purposes of the sponsoring
institution, whether or not
there is a conscious effort to
comply with those
philosophies and purposes.
Type of Education Setting ,
Philosophy , and Objectives
of Sponsoring Institution

Whoever the sponsoring group,

whatever its motivations
and whatever its aims
become those of the school
of nursing.

Type of Education Setting ,
Philosophy , and Objectives
of Sponsoring Institution

Studies indicate that

institutions attract faculties
and students with
characteristics that are
congruent with the
sponsoring institution, and
differences are a matter of
degree, not of kind.
Type of Education Setting ,
Philosophy , and Objectives
of Sponsoring Institution

For instance, some religiously

oriented colleges have in their
purposes that students hold
specified religious beliefs, that
graduates be equipped to fight
“materials hedonism” and that
the students’ life patterns be in
keeping with the tenets of the
religious beliefs of the sponsoring
institution.
Type of Education Setting ,
Philosophy , and Objectives
of Sponsoring Institution

Theological or “Bible” studies

are usually a required part
of the curriculum, and
nursing content is often
included or excluded on the
basis of religious conviction.
Type of Education Setting ,
Philosophy , and Objectives
of Sponsoring Institution

Liberal arts colleges that

exhibit strong philosophies
of humanism require
different prerequisite
courses and have different
aspirations for their
graduates than religiously
oriented colleges
Type of Education Setting ,
Philosophy , and Objectives
of Sponsoring Institution

Social responsibility, classical

foundations, and highly
developed decision-making
capacity tend to be
predominant purposes of
these colleges.
Type of Education Setting ,
Philosophy , and Objectives
of Sponsoring Institution

Church-sponsored colleges and

proprietary liberal arts
colleges often have some
area of common philosophy.
Type of Education Setting ,
Philosophy , and Objectives
of Sponsoring Institution

However, studies indicate that

the priorities of emphasis
are most often dictated by
the philosophical and or
theological set of the
sponsoring group.
Type of Education Setting ,
Philosophy , and Objectives
of Sponsoring Institution

Of importance to a faculty that is

developing nursing curricula is a
definitive succinct description of
the college philosophy and
purpose and the subsequent
development of the philosophy
and purpose of the school of
nursing congruent with the
sponsoring agency.

Type of Education Setting ,
Philosophy , and Objectives
of Sponsoring Institution

Areas of the philosophical

incongruence provide the
battle lines for curriculum
problems, whereas areas of
congruence provide the
base for continuing
development.
Type of Education Setting ,
Philosophy , and Objectives
of Sponsoring Institution

Character, legislated mandates, and

boards of governors or trustees
are usually established to provide
the educational institution with a
group that is charged with the
sole responsibility of providing for
the welfare of the college and
ensuring that the college
curriculum is congruent with
established philosophy and
purposes.
Type of Education Setting ,
Philosophy , and Objectives
of Sponsoring Institution

When change does occur,

these boards are responsible
for ensuring that changes
follow the lines of those
occurring in the sponsoring
body.
Type of Education Setting ,
Philosophy , and Objectives
of Sponsoring Institution

Financial responsibility is usually

vested in and or administered by
this board. Moneys are provided
by churches, private subscription,
trust funds, or state of federal
budgets. Regardless of where the
money flows from, it usually flows
through some group that governs
the educational enterprise.

Type of Education Setting ,
Philosophy , and Objectives
of Sponsoring Institution

The degree to which the

governing body uses its
authority and financial
leverage to influence
curriculum varies from the
institution to institution.
However, it is legitimate
(although to teachers often
an annoying) responsibility of
those governing boards to
enforce congruence of
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