Major academic institutions—including the Institute of Medicine, National League for Nursing, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, and the Carnegie Foundation—have all called for profound changes in how nursing students are educated in order to address the realities of 21st-century healthcare.

Benefits of a concept-based curriculum
  • Helps students take a more active role in their learning using the “flipped classroom” model of instruction.
  • Streamlines content and eliminates content redundancies across courses.
  • Enables faculty to teach clinical reasoning skills more easily.
  • Helps students apply concepts from one situation to another and make connections between those concepts.
  • Encourages students to see patterns across concepts and use those patterns to deliver care and anticipate risks.

The potential benefits of a concept-based curriculum are extensive. But transitioning takes work both educators and students must adjust the way they teach and learn to effectively implement the model.

But don’t just take our word for it. We asked some of our nursing educators with expertise in concept-based curriculum design to provide their insights. Hear their stories below.

Nurses learning to insert an IV drip in hospital.

Teaching for the floor

Tola Plusnick, DNP, RN, CPNP explains how their transition to Lippincott CoursePoint for Nursing Concepts was made easier with help from Wolters Kluwer.
Hear from Tola
Nurse working from home doing paperwork and using tablet
Less content, more learning, better retention
Catherine Freeman explains how Lippincott CoursePoint for Nursing Concepts helped their transition and provided training on customizing the site for her school.
Hear from Catherine
Group of medical students with gadgets in college, top view
Going digital
Michael Youngwood, MSN explains how easily a concept-based curriculum can bridge the gap from the accumulation of knowledge to the application of critical thinking at the patient’s bedside.
Hear from Michael
“Concept-based learning was a way to ensure our students were becoming the types of nurses most in-demand by the health care industry today. We took the leap into concept-based curriculum, and it absolutely paid off in spades.” Catherine Freeman, Department Head/Director of the Associated Degree Nursing Program, Western Piedmont Community College

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