title: Clinical leadership in pre-registration nursing programmes--an international literature review.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Clinical leadership and the safety, quality and efficiency of patient/client care are inextricably linked in government reports, major inquiries and the professional literature.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This review explores the literature on clinical leadership development within pre-registration nursing programmes.
  
  
  METHODS
  The literature retrieved from a scoping review was evaluated to identify what is already published on the development of clinical leadership within pre-registration nursing programmes. Twenty-seven publications matched the inclusion criteria and were included in this review, 14 journal articles, one thesis and 11 chapters within one book were analysed and three themes were identified: clinical leadership; curriculum content and pedagogy. RESULTS AND MAIN OUTCOMES: This review identified a paucity of literature specifically relating to clinical leadership and pre-registration nursing programmes and what is available is inconclusive and unconvincing.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Academics, curriculum development leaders and accreditation bodies have a responsibility to influence how nurses are prepared for the profession as such clinical leadership and the new graduate should be considered an area of greater importance.
authors.affiliation: a School of Nursing , University of Wollongong , Northfields Avenue, Gwynneville, Wollongong , New South Wales , Australia.
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.affiliation: b Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health , University of Wollongong , Northfields Avenue, Gwynneville, Wollongong , New South Wales , Australia.
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Crookes
authors.affiliation: c Division of Nursing, School of Health Sciences , Queen Margaret University Drive , Musselburgh , East Lothian EH21 6UU , UK.
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dewing
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D038622:Internationality; D007857:Leadership; D009740:Nursing Staff
keywords: clinical leadership; curriculum; pre-registration nursing; scoping review