steps in Curriculum Development:

1. Philosophy(ate cha)
- Identify major concepts that will be threaded throughout courses
Examples:
*Evidence-based practice
*Informatics/Communication
*Interdisciplinary teams
*Quality improvement
*Patient-centered care
2.Organizing framework(ash)
Examples
* Competencies Provider of care, manager of care, member of the discipline
* Core Competencies Professional behaviors, Communication, Assessment, Clinical Decision Making, Caring Interventions,
Teaching and Learning, Collaboration, Managing Care
* Test Plan Safe, Effective Care Environment, Health Promotion and Maintenance, Psychosocial Integrity, Physiological
Integrity.
*Functional Health Patterns
*Systems
3.Educational Outcomes or Terminal Objectives/evaluation(joy)
This is what you want your graduate to look like or be able to do when they graduate
They will be broad statements that relate back to the major concepts identified in the philosophy.
4. Level objectives or course objectives (stan)
- Determine the number of levels for your program
- These must demonstrate progression.
- They also provide the framework for the clinical evaluation tool.
- The objectives for the final course are the same as the educational outcomes or terminal objectives.
5. Determine the content for each course
- The major concepts identified in philosophy are deepened throughout the program.
- The organizing framework provides the structure for the content.
- It is impossible to cover everything the challenge is to identify the concepts that are critical.
6. Design Learning Activities and Methods of Assessment
- Facilitate active student investigation, discovery, and learning of essential material.
- Faculty do not need to feel responsible for covering all of the material
- All assessments should reflect the depth and breath of content described in course objectives.

**** You may want to Google CHED CMO 14 s2009 for the new Nursing Curriculum as a guide for all the steps.