Importance Of Block Scheduling In Nursing

INTRODUCTION

Nursing is considered as the noblest profession. Nursing includes caring for the individual, society and community. The comprehensive nursing care render quality care to the people. The nurses play a major role in improving standardized care. The teachers at the educational institutions need to prepare the students well in order to meet the growing needs of the public. There is always a gap exists between theory and practice in the nursing. To balance between the theory and practice, the nurse educators need to prepare the students with the current knowledge. This knowledge will prepare the students to bridge or close the gap between theory and practice.

Many research studies had mentioned that Block system is a better solution to bridge the gap between theory and practice in the nursing educational settings. “Block scheduling” has been defined as type of academic scheduling in which each student has fewer classes per day. Each class is scheduled for a longer period of time than normal like for 90 minutes. In one form of block scheduling, a single class will meet every day for a number of weeks, after which another class will take its place. In another form,daily classes rotate through a changing daily cycle (Trostil Robert,2001).

Similarly, the reasons for implementing the “Faculty Allocation Approach” in Oman Nursing Institute tobridge the gap between theory and practice. This approach will restructure and re-organize the teaching responsibilities of the faculty members to enhance the quality of nursing education. The Faculty Allocation Approach is to form an exclusive faculty team for Theory, Lab sessions and clinical teaching and supervision. In addition theory and clinical will be allocated following a block sys...

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