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Nursing Education provides a strategic guide and practical focus to curriculum planning and development. It will help all those involved in the provision of nursing education to understand the issues involved at the different stages of preparing a nursing curriculum which: Meets both professional and academic requirements; Integrates theory and practice; Enables students to achieve the skills and competencies they need for professional practice; Includes different methods of teaching and learning; Provides clear guidance for student selection and assessment
Balancing theoretical principles with practical application, and linked closely to the NMC's 2010 standards for pre-registration nursing, Jennifer Boore and Pat Deeny illustrate clearly and accessibly how to develop tailored education programs so that nurse educators and clinicians in practice can enable their students to provide up-to-date and appropriate patient care.
Student Support
Student Support
Introduction
For some students the academic and personal demands of the pre-registration nursing programme are considerable and they need support to overcome these challenges. In addition, nursing is an occupation in which students are exposed to the traumatic situations which their patients face and have to learn to provide support for their patients and families. They also have to learn to cope with the resulting emotions in themselves. There are a number of circumstances which many, if not most, nursing students find traumatic, such as caring for a dying patient and their family, facing the death of a child, or caring for someone who has just received bad news. They need sympathetic support to learn how to manage the care professionally and deal ...
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