Section 1000-01-.09 - SCHOOLS - CURRICULUM, INSTRUCTION, EVALUATION(1) Curriculum Organization. (a) The curriculum should be designed by the faculty to reflect the educational philosophy of the school in an organized pattern, and provide opportunities for the student to develop as an individual, a citizen, and a nurse.(b) The placement of courses, the selection of clinical laboratory experiences should be organized to provide continuity, correlation, and integration into the larger design of the total curriculum. 1. Organization and instructional technique should provide for the development of basic principles and understandings from one area to another, and facilitate a sense of inter-relationship among the various disciplines and between theory and practice.2. The school year shall be divided into time periods, semesters, terms, quarters, etc., with dates set for the beginning and ending, and with planned clinical laboratory experiences beginning and ending at the scheduled times.3. Course outline, including the clinical planned laboratory experiences, shall be kept up to date and available to all members of the faculty.(2) Curriculum Content. The following content areas should be common to all schools: (a) Biological and physical sciences with content from the fields of anatomy, physiology, chemistry, microbiology, and physics, taught as separate courses or integrated into more general courses in the science curriculum; the focus of instruction being on the understanding and application of scientific principles necessary for effective nursing care.(b) Behavioral sciences, with content from the fields such as psychology, sociology, and anthropology.(c) Nursing, with content from the major areas: foundations of nursing practice, care of adults and children, maternity nursing, care of the mentally as well as the physically ill, including consideration of particular age groups, promotion and maintenance of health, and prevention and detection of illness, and restoration of health, with clinical laboratory experiences planned as an integral part of the curriculum. This area of content, developed as separate courses or integrated into the more general nursing curriculum, should provide opportunities for the student to study the historical development of nursing, and the ethical and legal responsibilities, as well as professional responsibilities, of the nurse.(d) Studies in other areas of learning provided by the individual schools should allow for further development of the student as an individual and as a citizen.(3) Major Curriculum Change.-Any major curriculum change must be presented to the Board in person by the Director of the school of nursing or his representative.(4) Instruction.-Instructional methods shall be varied and suited to course content and level of student learning.(5) Evaluation.-The nursing education program is to be constantly evaluated to determine the relationship of its achievements to its objectives and to determine ways of augmenting its successes. (a) Periodic evaluation by the faculty to include studies of student withdrawals and systematic follow-up studies of graduates of the program. Student participation in evaluation of their own achievements with respect to school objectives and in evaluation of curriculum recommended.(b) Procedures for evaluation of teaching effectiveness should be established.(6) Reserved for Future Use.Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1000-01-.09
Original Rule certified May 10, 1974.Authority: T.C.A. § 63-736(c).