A development and implementation framework for Web-based nursing courses.

Nalini Jairath; Nola Stair

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A development and implementation framework for Web-based nursing courses.

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The demand for web-based nursing courses necessitates efficient, effective approaches to course development and implementation. The NursingWeb Framework addresses web-based nursing courses within the context of technological, legal/administrative, and curricular components and infrastructure and course-specific structural features, processes/procedures, and outcomes. Aspects of the framework are illustrated using the web-based undergraduate nursing research course of the University of Maryland Baltimore's School of Nursing.

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Nalini Jairath, Nola Stair. A development and implementation framework for Web-based nursing courses.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15124510/

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