Abstract
The challenge for nurse educators is ‘how best to prepare students for the complexities of the social, cultural and political arena of clinical practice’ (Newton et al. 2009: 630). In rising to this challenge, nurse educators have leapt onto the treadmill of innovation, experimentation, evaluation and re-innovation. Powering this treadmill is the question: How can we do it better?
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Edgecombe, K., Bowden, M. (2014). Introduction. In: Edgecombe, K., Bowden, M. (eds) Clinical Learning and Teaching Innovations in Nursing. Innovation and Change in Professional Education, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7232-8_1
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