Communicative Competencies in Nursing: A Situation- and Competence-Based Curriculum

The project (model) curriculum communicative competences in nursing aimed at developing a curriculum for promoting communicative and counseling skills in the training of nurses to improve standardization of teaching and learning for communication competencies in nursing schools in Germany. The project focused on determining outcomes, content, methods of teaching and learning, and the order of the learning situations for the 3 years of training. In this publication, we will describe our approach for developing the curriculum and the curriculum principles we have used. The curriculum is competence-based, partial competencies of communicative competence are gradually fostered to an increasingly higher level. It is also situation-based, with learning situations becoming more and more complex as the training progresses. Also, various epistemological approaches were integrated into the learning situations.