How the metaphor of a gap between theory and practice has influenced nursing education

Gallagher, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2004.01.006

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“…The results from this study endorse previous findings on the theory-practice gap in nursing education, whereby students and newly qualified nurses often emerged from their courses with consistent set of 'high' professional nursing values, which were often thwarted in practice [21] . The current study also suggests that patient safety education continues to represent a challenge for bridging the theory-practice gap.…”

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Examining patient safety education in pre-registration nursing curriculum: Qualitative study

Mansour

2013

JNEP

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Background: Patient safety education has become an important tool to shape the future safety behaviour of health care professionals. The World Health Organisation has recently advocated eleven patient safety themes that need to be addressed in any health care educational curriculum. It is not known at this stage how far pre-registration adult nursing curriculum addresses these patient safety themes. Aims:To examine the views of nursing students and faculty members on patient safety education in a pre-registration adult nursing curriculum in relation to the WHO' patient safety themes. Method:Qualitative method, utilising 20 semi-structured interviews with pre-registration adult nursing students and faculty members (10 students and 10 faculty members). The data were analysed thematically.Findings: Three main themes emerged from the participants' views: 'Not explicitly linked to patient safety', 'Mismatch between theory and practice' and 'The role of the mentor in practice'. The power imbalance between the students and staff in clinical placement appeared to have rendered many students reluctant to challenge unsafe practice. Conclusion:Patient safety education needs to be more visibly taught in nursing education. The nursing curriculum' content, teaching and delivery methods may need to be reconsidered to better address the relevant WHO' patient safety themes, but also to accommodate the unique context of each nursing educational system.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Examining patient safety education in pre-registration nursing curriculum: Qualitative study

Mansour

2013

JNEP

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“…In addition, it is known that theoretical and practical knowledge are brought by the learners and are not separated experiences from one another (11) . There is also a lack of systematized studies that include these aspects related to the student's person.…”

Section: The Metaphor Of a Theory-practice Gapmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflections on nursing teaching in the post-modernity era and the metaphor of a theory-practice gap

Scherer

2007

Rev. Latino-Am. Enfermagem

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“…For a long time, this metaphor has influenced nursing education, raising an obstacle for our students' learning. 17 Some initiatives, such as the creation of a nursing role that combines the educative with the clinical role, can contribute to reduce this gap, besides the existence of curricular designs that permit the synchronization of theoretical contents and clinical practice, something that seems particularly relevant in our study.…”

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The identity of the nursing academic: between education and research

González¹,

Badia²,

Font

2014

Texto contexto - enferm.

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This study aimed to analyze how nurses represent their role as nursing academics and their conceptions, strategies and feelings involved in teaching-learning and research in nursing. A qualitative study was conducted. To achieve this goal, a semi-structured interview was carried out with seven nurses who worked as teachers and researchers at a university in Barcelona, Spain. The data were analyzed through categories validated in a previous study with the support of The Atlas Ti program. The results evidenced that nurses are less equipped to develop the researcher role, and that the profession is not justified without a close relationship between nursing theory and practice. The nursing academics look for a balance between teaching and research and they also wish to promote the development of models and theories in their own discipline.

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How the metaphor of a gap between theory and practice has influenced nursing education

Cited by 71 publications

References 51 publications

Examining patient safety education in pre-registration nursing curriculum: Qualitative study

Examining patient safety education in pre-registration nursing curriculum: Qualitative study

Reflections on nursing teaching in the post-modernity era and the metaphor of a theory-practice gap

The identity of the nursing academic: between education and research

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