Abstract
It has long been recognized that nursing is essentially a practice-based discipline, underpinned by fundamental concepts which inform practice. The purpose of this paper is two-fold: first, to discuss the need for an exploration of these concepts of nursing as a foundation to preregistration nursing programmes. Second, by utilizing a continuous quality improvement perspective, an evaluation of teachers' experiences with a cohort of adult and child health branch students is considered. It is concluded that a significant proportion of students found that a raised conceptual awareness served to promote theory-practice links.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 570-577 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Nurse Education Today |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 7 |
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| Publication status | Published - Oct 1999 |
| Externally published | Yes |