Approaches to nursing skills training in three countries

摘要

There is an ever widening gap existing between education and practice settings for nurses that began with the discipline's move away from hospitals as educational settings and into colleges and universities (Higginson 2004). Challenges have arisen for nursing students regarding the procurement of clinical nursing skills during training as a direct result of this move as well as by the ever-burgeoning technological advancements and medical innovations that have continued to grow since that time, particularly over the past few decades (Campos de Carvalho 2008; Robinson 1993).