Co-producing nurse education with academics, students, service users and carers: lessons from the pandemic

What is it about?

This commentary paper represents the reflections of academics, students and service users and carers who are involved in designing the pre-registration nursing programme. The paper focuses on how to combine a shift towards more digital content with continuing to embed authentic involvement and content from our local community. Following a general overview covering the current move towards learner-centred curricula, there are three sections covering: pre-pandemic; during the pandemic; and our plans for a hybrid approach going forward.

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Why is it important?

This paper is timely as society reflects on the learning undertaken during the pandemic. Our University spent considerable amounts of time and money on technology and training to ensure everyone could continue to engage in the design delivery and assessment of pre-registration nursing curriculum via remote learning. This was especially important as many of our third year students were asked to be front-line workers during this period. The introduction of a hybrid approach should facilitate active learning and enable digital content to be balanced by in-person human connections in the physical classroom environment.

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