Clinical teaching and assessment in nursing

This chapter discusses the challenges and suggested theories for developing the role and emerging clinical teaching practices and a number of innovations to support professional development. It provides an overview of the strengths and challenges of this subspecialty of nursing education. Clinical teaching is concerned with facilitating integration between theory and practice so that students develop, and nurses maintain, fitness for practice. In high-acuity settings, where nursing students commonly learn nursing, patient status changes rapidly, requiring students to step back from providing care. Across the world, most universities have attempted to attract a diverse student body so that principles of equity include students from marginalised backgrounds, and so that the university itself can be profitable. Diversity in nursing student cohorts is affected by the increasing global trend to study abroad. International study enhances student understanding of global health and students benefit through increased cultural awareness, and personal and professional growth.