title: Making the most of practical placements: what the nurse teacher can do to maximise the benefits for students.
abstract: Any course of preparation for nurses has practical placements to support the theoretical material, and this paper attempts to address the question of how the nurse teacher can ensure that students derive maximum benefit from such placements. Principles of the transfer of learning, and experiential learning are applied to the process of curriculum development where it includes the incorporation of practical placements. Then the teacher's role in the implementation of the curriculum with reference to practical placements is considered in three stages of preparation, monitoring/support, evaluation. These issues are considered in the context of Project 2000 and the current changes taking place in nurse education.
authors.forename: G H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Jinks
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D009732:Nursing Care; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards