Nursing degree

Developing the Roles and Responsibilities of The Qualified Nurse Teaching and Facilitating Others As a registered nurse or indeed as a student nurse undertaking training, teaching others may it be peers, clients or their families is an important factor that is practised in a variety of contexts, day to day. As The Code of Professional Conduct (2002) states the nurse is personally accountable for their practice and must maintain and improve professional knowledge and competence. It …

…is possible to focus teaching efforts on helping the patient overcome the perceived barriers. Among the various theories of learning, some common themes emerge. The first is that learning is complex (Richardson, Vermont and Verloop 1999) Study involves learning many different things and combining them so that they make sense in a particular situation. Learning is therefore not one process, but many related processes and each requires you to think in different ways (Nursing Standard p.40, 2001)