The curriculum was developed following a series of meetings by a steering team. The team comprised six members who included two nurses from the office of the chief nursing officer and two nurse educators from the School of Nursing sciences. The Director of the school of nursing sciences and the chief nursing officers were ex-officio members. The steering team became the national training team and developed the curriculum. The author was appointed the national lead trainer and technical advisor to the team because of her wide experience in teaching nursing process. The team reviewed supervisory reports from nurse administrators on challenges faced by clinical nurse practitioners. Policy issues that would influence utilization of the nursing process were discussed. Steps of the nursing process in the global literature as well as research reports on facilitators of and barriers to its utilization were reviewed to guide development of a customized curriculum. Documentation which was recognized as a major challenge for nurses in Kenya was included as the last step in nursing process contrary to the global literature. Risk nursing diagnoses were also modified to include a third part instead of the two parts in global literature.