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Critical realism in nursing: An emerging approach
Schiller (2016) examines this emerging approach and offers explanations about how it has not/been utilised effectively in recent literature. The author explains what critical realism is by stepping the reader through what exists – the layers of knowledge (1) the real, (2) the actual, (3) the empirical. In the paper, Schiller (2016) goes into detail […]
Improving the quality of clinical placements: a practice development approach
Inherent in the nurses’ professional role is the requirement to support the learning and development of students and colleagues. Since 2002, due to projected workforce shortages of nurses and subsequent increase in the number of undergraduate students undertaking nursing and going on professional experience, has almost doubled. Courtney-Pratt et al (2015) describe the process of […]