The ongoing search for best practice in clinical teaching and learning: A model of nursing students’ evolution to proficient novice registered nurses
Nurse Education in PracticePublished 5 December 2008
Kay Edgecombe, Margaret Bowden
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The development of a model of nursing students as evolving registered nurses (RNs) is described, which has implications for future curriculum development, staff development, placement approaches and research in relation to clinical teaching and learning.
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This article describes the development of a model of nursing students as evolving registered nurses (RNs). It aims to generate critical debate about innovations in nursing teaching and learning. The model is the outcome of research conducted with undergraduate nursing students (n=111) from Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia. It identifies the positive and negative intrinsic and extrinsic factors that impact on nursing students' clinical learning development and progression from students to proficient novice RNs. This model has implications for future curriculum development, staff development, placement approaches and research in relation to clinical teaching and learning.
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