ABSTRACT
The experience of implementing IBL in the pre-registration nursing curriculum has been an education and a revelation. We learned things we did not know, and finally came to really understand things we thought we already knew. Because we were implementing a whole curriculum we had to review the entire infrastructure. Sometimes we found that not only did it not meet the needs of the new curriculum, it failed to meet all the needs of the existing curriculum. We learned there are huge dividends – in terms of user productivity and satisfaction – to be gained by taking a lot of trouble to tune processes to meet the needs of those using them, instead of relying on the ingenuity and effort of users to make ill-matched systems function. Most importantly, we rediscovered the truth of something we already knew, that the golden dividend comes from investing in people. They are the universal lubricant that makes everything work better – time and money spent on involving and developing staff is time and money well spent.
