Background: Nurse educators must seek innovative frameworks for their curricula to prepare nursing students to meet evolving healthcare needs. The South African National Department of Health introduced the new nursing curriculum (R171) in 2013 with the aim of producing generalist nurses who can meet the health care needs of the patients and to align the nursing program with the relevant Higher Education Qualification Framework. R171 was implemented in the North-West Province in 2021.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Effective interprofessional team collaboration is one of the necessary domains for successful interprofessional collaborative practices in healthcare (IPCP), which is crucial for the delivery of safe and quality healthcare services. Therefore, understanding the contribution of interprofessional education in nursing students is vital to improving collaboration practices in nursing students, in preparation for the dynamics that await after registration in practice amongst the interprofessional team. Thus, the aim of the study was to summarise the contribution of interprofessional education in nursing education in developing competent undergraduate nursing students.
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