The ENB pilot schemes. How plans have become reality

After inviting schools of nursing to submit proposals for innovative nurse education programmes incorporating some of the elements of Project 2000, the English National board approved six as pilot schemes. This paper reports on a three-year research project which looked at how the schools tackled the brief and introduced changes to their curriculums. Two of the courses enable students to gain registration and a diploma in nursing studies or nursing science, and one offers a certificate from a university granting exemption from one year of an undergraduate course. Further developments on accreditation, and course units, together with the possible reduction of multiple student intakes to once annually, are issues to be explored further in Project 2000 courses.