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C Murray

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How can the clinical credibility of nurse lecturers be improved?: 2.

The movement of nurse education into the university sector has put further tension on the theory-practice gap and the clinical credibility of nursing lecturers. If the ideal is for the lecturer to guide the learner in applying theory to practice and vice versa (Jarvis and Gibson, 1985), this can only realistically be achieved if lecturers of nursing have experience as practitioners within the field(s) they teach and are viewed as being clinically credible (ENB, 1996). In the first article (Vol 7(8): 490-2) an innovative way of enabling lecturers of nursing to engage in practice was presented. In this second article a variety of other approaches which enable lecturers to engage in clinical practice will be explored.

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How can the clinical credibility of nurse lecturers be improved?

The last 10 years has seen a surge in the development of academic pre- and postregistration courses. With the movement of colleges of nursing and midwifery into higher education it has become difficult for lecturers of nursing to remain engaged in clinical practice. However, the professional bodies, the students themselves and their employers expect lecturers of nursing to be clinically able, clinically credible and knowledgeable about contemporary practice in order to produce practitioners who are 'fit for purpose'. This article outlines one innovative approach employed by an educational organization to enable lecturers of postregistration specialist nursing programmes to achieve clinical credibility by undertaking a minimum of 300 contracted hours of clinical experience. This approach was found to be beneficial to the lecturers, the students and the ongoing relationships between the trusts and the department of nursing.

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Overcoming barriers to permanency planning.

The authors describe their success with a permanency planning project that emphasized interagency cooperation and worked from the thesis that every child is adoptable if return to the biological family is not possible.

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