Learning in the laboratory

Chapters 1 and 2 raised some of the important issues facing clinical teachers in nursing and explored the theoretical foundations upon which clinical learning and teaching may be based. Each of the following chapters draws on that material and relates it to the practice of clinical teaching. Using a self-instructional style a number of activities are suggested to enable you to draw on your own teaching practice as the basis for analysis and consideration of alternative approaches. Although the feedback which follows the activities can be read as a text in the usual way there are advantages in applying the practical examples provided to your own experience. The questions and activities may trigger ideas for your own teaching which may go unrecognized if the text is read without a gentle nudge from time to time.