Considerations about the integration and interdisciplinary coordination in the study plan of Bachelor of Sciences in Nursing

Abstract

A preliminary evaluation of the study plan design of Bachelor of Sciences in Nursing applied in the 2003-04 and 2004-05 courses has shown an insufficient flexibilization of the flexnerian model and a structure of the study plan susceptible to be improved in reference to interdisciplinary coordination. To elaborate a curricular proposal with a higher level of adjustment to the formative model and to the characteristics stated for the D study plans, a group of experts formed by the head professors of the specialty of Nursing was constituted at the Higher Medical School in Havana and the group was increased with head professors from other faculties along the country. A working methodology was used; it was characterized by an initial period of disciplinary work followed by another interdisciplinary coordination and of the programs punctualization to complete the coherence between disciplinary and interdisciplinary facts in the study plan.
In all the periods the demands of the formation model were taken into account which was structured in three periods.
The subject and discipline programs were formed as well as a group of curricular strategies. The application of this curricular model during two courses requires an evaluation to improve it and design it definitely.