Cyril Murray

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.