Education 712

Dr. Louie Rodriguez & Dr. Aja Henriquez

Kathy Tiras
April 29, 2014
After reading numerous articles on nursing curriculum and the need for reform of
nursing curriculum I believe that Grounded theory approach would be the best
method for the research I would like to do.
A white paper publishes by the California Institute for Nursing & Health Care
Optimizing the Health of Californians through Nursing Excellence, nursing Education
redesign for California, collaboratively creating an emerging future for excellence in
health care through excellence in nursing education: white paper and strategic
action plan recommendations, (Boller, J. and Jones, M., 2008) there is a need to
transform nursing education in California. How do we transform talk of change in
nursing education into the proper action to reform nursing education in California?
By 2020 there will be a nursing shortage of approximately 116,000 in California this
will majorly impact patient care. More nurses need to be educated however we
must pay attention to make sure that we are producing quality nursing graduates
not just increasing the quantity of nursing graduates. Nursing education must be
able to effectively prepare nurses to provide safe and quality patient care in todays
health care settings, and adapt in a timely manner to prepare nurses to practice in
tomorrows health care environment (Boller, J. and Jones, M., 2008). Here it is
2014 and we still are not preparing nursing students for these changes, many
nursing school faculty members are still teaching as they were taught, and using
rote memorization. There has been a slow adoption of innovative student
centered learning approaches by nursing faculty (Boller, J. and Jones, M., 2008).
There was a nursing research study using the grounded theory approach
regarding one aspect of nursing education, the clinical portion. Six nursing students
were interviewed asking what they felt were attributes of a good clinical nursing
educator. According to these six participants the following were the characteristics
that they felt were needed: knowledge, interpersonal presentation and teaching
strategies. This paper did not go into detail of what were effective teaching
strategies except for less paperwork required by students (Hanson, K., and Stnevig,
T., 2006). Since no further studies were found we need more information and
participants to come up with qualities of effective teaching in nursing education.
Grounded theory was developed by Barney Glaser and Anslem Strauss who were
two sociologist working at a northern California university school of nursing. These
researched wanted to develop a method in which a theory could be developed in
areas where there was not at the present time available, (Connelly, L., 2013).
There is still not a standard theory on how to teach or teaching methods by nursing
faculty that adequately prepare nursing students to provide safe and
knowledgeable patient care upon graduation. The processes used for grounded
theory development include: open, initial coding, concurrent data collection and
analysis, theoretical sampling and constant comparative analysis (Connelly, L.,
2013). Interviews must be transcribe verbatim and then coded (Connelly, L.,
2013). Data that is systematically collected and analyzed can then be used to

develop a theory regarding effective teaching strategies for nursing professors

teaching in a BSN program(Patterson., 2013). My data collection would be
interviews with students and faculty at a BSN program in southern California at
state college. I would first contact nursing programs and speak to the Dean or Chair
to provide me with students and Professors who meet predetermined criteria for
the interviews and after permission and IRB approval begin interviews , observation
of classes and review of tests and quizzes to use for data collection.

References
Boller, J. , & Jones, D. (2008). Collaboratively creating an Emerging Future
for Excellence in health care through Excellence in Nursing Education.
White Paper California Institute for Nursing & Health Care
Connelly, L., (2013). Grounded Theory. Journal of MEDSURG Nursing, 22,
124-127.
Paterson, J., (2013). Understanding grounded theory. Nursing Standard, 28,
37-41.