title: See how they learn: experience as the basis of practice.
abstract: Personal accounts of nurses' and midwives' experiences of health problems feature not infrequently in the nursing press, with different points being made. The contribution of experience to learning is examined in relation to data collected during a study of midwives' care of relinquishing mothers. The extent to which there is a conflict between experiential learning, valued as a component of andragogy, and aspirations to being a research-based profession is examined.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mander
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008880:Midwifery / Q000193:education*; D009732:Nursing Care; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D011181:Postnatal Care