title: Back to basics: exploring the conceptual basis of nursing.
abstract: It has long been recognized that nursing is essentially a practice-based discipline, underpinned by fundamental concepts which inform practice. The purpose of this paper is two-fold: first, to discuss the need for an exploration of these concepts of nursing as a foundation to pre-registration nursing programmes. Second, by utilizing a continuous quality improvement perspective, an evaluation of teachers' experiences with a cohort of adult and child health branch students is considered. It is concluded that a significant proportion of students found that a raised conceptual awareness served to promote theory-practice links.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Health and Community Studies, Bournemouth University, Dorset.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Scammell
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001154:Art; D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D016294:Models, Nursing; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015399:Nursing Research; D009742:Nursing Theory; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012586:Science; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000458:organization & administration*