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Learning to nurse through legitimate peripheral participation
This seminal work about legitimate peripheral participation by Spouse (1998) promoted the importance of professional development within the clinical environment that was discussed last week by Felstead (2013). Spouse (1998) conducted a longitudinal study of seven nurses through their undergraduate course. She collected documentary evidence, interviewed and observed their interactions. The rationale for the study […]
Role modelling and student’s professional development
Felstead (2013) authored an article about the impact of role modelling on the development of professional practice by nursing students. In a the article Felstead (2013) discussed the term role model and how it is defined in nursing. Felstead (2013) discussed that clinical competence was more likely to be a focus of role modelling, than […]