title: Clinical education. Relating practical experiments to theory.
abstract: Integrating theory into practice is not without its difficulties. Often concepts derived from the physical and behavioural sciences appear to be unrelated to nursing practice and although noted laboriously by student nurses no active learning occurs. As nurse education changes not only in curriculum content and teaching methodology but in who will do the teaching and in what venue, then the importance of ensuring the relevance of theoretical concepts to nursing practice will increase. This paper illustrates how physiological theory can be integrated into nursing practice by the use of ward-based practical experiments. Currently four such experiments have been introduced and are being evaluated. There is scope for developing further experiments and it is contended that this approach will enhance learning.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gibbon
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Oldham
mesh_terms: D015400:Clinical Nursing Research / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods*; D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010827:Physiology / Q000193:education*