title: Education must evolve to equip students for reality.
abstract: Any emergency nurse (EN) will tell you that their learning truly began the day they first started work in an emergency department (ED). Despite all the training during a nursing degree course, it is only when an EN is exposed to the waiting room or the ambulance bay of the ED that they can start relating clinical theory to the reality of injured and sick adults and children at their most vulnerable.
authors.affiliation: Brixham, Devon.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shelswell
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016529:Emergency Nursing / Q000193:education*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D006113:United Kingdom; D055815:Young Adult