DACUM PROCESS: A METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING COMPETENCIES FOR TECHNICAL NURSING EDUCATION.
Contributors: Clemson University.
Published: 1986
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: DACUM, acronym for developing a curriculum, has been suggested as an efficient method for securing input from workers for the purpose of securing worker-identified competencies. It is not a replacement for traditional activities of curriculum development. DACUM holds greatest promise for contributions in competency identification.

This is a 1985 one-case study, documenting success of the DACUM process as applied in South Carolina's Greenville Technical College. The problem addressed by the study is: Can a relatively small panel of selected practicing nurses develop a list of competencies for technical nursing education through the DACUM process in which the relative importance of these competencies will generally be agreed upon by practicing nurses, employers and educators?.

Interval-level procedures were used for determining acceptance of the DACUM competency-profile by relevant groups: Technical nurses, nursing educators and employers. Random methods were used for sample selection.

Findings suggested: (1) that the DACUM process may have contributions to make to curriculum development; (2) that weaknesses exist because practitioners disagreed about the relative importance of the competencies identified by the DACUM panel; (3) that nursing faculty and directors of nursing service disagreed on the importance of the DACUM identified competencies; and (4) that the respondents tended to rate certain competencies higher for entry-level practice for baccalaureate degree graduates than for associate degree graduates.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-05, Section: B, page: 1927.

Thesis (ED.D.)--CLEMSON UNIVERSITY, 1986.

School code: 0050.