title: Clinical nursing.
abstract: Today clinical nursing in South Africa is at the crossroads. Many of its best practitioners are lured into management and education, where direct patient contact may be minimal or non-existent. Two reasons for this brain-drain are expounded. Furthermore, a more satisfactory and challenging career structure in clinical nursing is suggested as one possible solution. The educational preparation of nurse clinicians in essential life-skills also needs further attention. The Biomatrix approach is modified and applied to nursing education in an attempt to explain the need for nursing students to learn within a framework that generates self-actualisation, competence and adequate feedback.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jaros
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D004506:Education, Nursing; D005246:Feedback; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D007858:Learning; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D013019:South Africa