Research into Nurse Education

<p>Originally published in 1983 this book provides a revealing and comprehensive perspective on nurse education in the 20th Century. The opening chapters look at the students themselves: the sort of people who come into nursing and it examines why the drop-out rate is high and how reality differs from expectations. The following section examines teaching on the wards and the final part is concerned with the education and support of those involved in nurse teaching. It includes a discussion of the nature of teaching and of ways of studying the teaching process as well as analysis of developments in the provision of library and information services to nurse educators nurse administrators and clinical nursing staff.</p>