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There has been considerable devaluing of the acquisition and use of biological science knowledge within the nursing profession. For a more effective nursing profession based on holism, biological science should be adopted to nursing education in a systematic way. It is useful to look through the development of biological science education in nursing at SNU.There were suggestions to improve biological science education in nursing. Firstly, teaching methods in biological sciences need to be developed by instructors for more effective learning. Secondly, it was necessary that there should be clearer guidelines as to depth and scope of knowledge to be taught from the biological base theoretically as well asciences in nursing perspectives. Thirdly, instructors who teach biological sciences in nursing education are required to have their own specialties of biological science with a nursing background and to extend their knowledge base theoretically as well as clinically. Fourthly, specialist programs for biological sciences should be offered in the Graduate School of Nursing and inservice education programs of biological sciences in nursing practice should be prepared. Finally, a new curriculum of biological science in nursing at SNU was established under the guidance of nurse physiologists (Choe, 1999). Five revised biological sciences such as human structure and function with lab, nutrition and diet, pharmacology in nursing, microbiology in nursing, and pathophysiology, focus on biological knowledge on the basis of nursing science.The syllabus of Human structure and function with lab was presented as continuous endeavors to develop systematic curriculum of biological science education in nursing. In the future, nursing knowledge would be expanded to other related biological disciplines such as genetics and environmental science.
