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Australian Nurse Teacher Competencies. A framework to describe learning and teaching
Competency is is an attribute that student nurses work towards throughout their undergraduate degree. After registration nurses continue to seek competency as they navigate their way, undertaking a myriad of roles in a variety of settings. On gaining knowledge, skills and developing behaviours or attributes in any of these areas of nursing, registered nurses may […]
The characteristics of successful nursing students in the professional experience setting
The recent publication of a study that describes the characteristics of successful and unsuccessful clinical performance of nursing students provides pertinent information that can be used to develop strategies to recognise and remediate potential at risk students early in their professional experience placements. The authors discuss the difficulties associated with evaluating student performance in practice […]