The Scenario of the Bachelor Nursing Curriculum for Nursing College in the Faculty Of Nursing, Praboromarajchanok Institute Ministry of Public Health (B.E. 2022- 2026)

Abstract

The aims of this research were as follows: 1) to study conditions, problems, and needs; 2) to create a scenario; and 3) to examine and confirm the scenario of the Bachelor of Nursing curriculum at the College of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Praboromarajchanok Institute, Ministry of Public Health (B.E. 2022-2026). The research comprised three parts: The first part involved studying the conditions, problems, and needs through a literature review, in-depth interviews, morphology analysis, and voting by student club presidents, physicians, and experts. The second part focused on a scenario using the future wheel, and the third part involved confirming the scenario through expert consensus.

The results revealed the following: An important condition and problem is that graduates had learning outcomes related to knowledge, intellectual skills, and analytical skills that did not meet the goal, especially English language skills. Requirements regarding learning management for the Bachelor of Nursing Science program were: 1) The desired characteristics of graduates must be good knowledge, think well, and act well; 2) The structure of the curriculum must be ‘Teach Less, Learn More’; 3) The content of the curriculum must be up-to-date and applicable; 4) The learning management must be hands-on, use technology, allow time to learn, and be integrated; 5) The learning support must be sufficient, have good performance, and be accessible all the time; and 6) There are various measures and evaluations. The outcomes of the scenario of the Bachelor of Nursing curriculum at the College of Nursing in the Faculty of Nursing at Praboromarajchanok Institute in the Ministry of Public Health (B.E. 2022-2026) and the results of the confirmation of the scenario by expert consensus show consistency as follows: (1) The Graduate’s desired characteristics must have good knowledge, good thoughts, and good practice; (2) The philosophy of the curriculum must be to produce nursing graduates who are smart, good, and happy; (3) The objectives of the curriculum should produce graduates with good performance, good thinking, and good coverage; (4) The structure of the curriculum must develop distinctive features with a focus on knowledge time; (5) The contents of the curriculum should be updated; (6) The learning management approach must emphasize technology-integrated learning methodologies, and have outstanding features; (7) The instructional support must be updated, useful, and of good quality; and (8) The measurement and evaluation must be diverse and efficient.