title: Serving two masters: quality teaching and learning versus economic rationalism.
abstract: Nurse educators face the challenge of competing pressures. Programmes must be developed that more adequately prepare students to meet the demands of a changing and complex health care system. These programmes must reflect excellence in teaching and learning and this needs to be achieved within the constraints of economic rationalism. The design of a model based on principles of self directed learning assisted one university to deliver a high quality clinical skills programme.
authors.affiliation: LaTrobe University Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. a.kenny@bendigo.latrobe.edu.au
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Kenny
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kendall
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000191:economics* / Q000379:methods*; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011380:Programmed Instructions as Topic; D014739:Victoria