title: Teaching and Learning: from staff nurse to nurse consultant. Part 7: teaching a skill.
abstract: I am always fascinated to watch people who are very competent at a particular task performing that skill. There is a confident ease that marks out a skilled performer but if you look deeper below the actual physical movements you can observe that the almost intuitive actions are guided by visual cues and sensory feedback. However, it is one thing to perform a skill but it is another to teach it.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fowler
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003253:Consultants; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D009726:Nurses; D013663:Teaching; D006113:United Kingdom