title: A model for constructing a conceptual framework for education in the clinical specialty.
abstract: A "Process Model" is described as an approach to developing and refining conceptual frameworks for education in the clinical specialties. A major characteristic of this approach is the borrowing of concepts from selected nursing models to construct the framework. Conceptual and empirical phases of the Model are discussed as they relate to clarifying the conceptual base of the clinical specialty. Applications of the Process Model to undergraduate and graduate education are presented.
mesh_terms: D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009736:Nursing Process; D009742:Nursing Theory; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education; D013041:Specialties, Nursing / Q000193:education*