A teaching guide for qualified nurses.

Abstract

The teaching of students, colleagues, patients and the public is taking up an increasingly higher proportion of qualified nurses' time. The quality and skills required for this are usually held by these nurses, but they lack confidence in showing them. By adopting a nursing process approach to teaching in clinical areas, the author shows how the skills of clinical nurses are similar to those required in teaching, and offers guidance on how nurses can approach their teaching responsibilities in their own areas of practice.