CLINICAL CREDIBILITY AND THE ROLE OF THE NURSE TEACHER

This paper explores the role of the nurse teacher looking specifically at the issue of clinical credibility and the value, in terms of the s tudent's optimal learning, of the nurse teacher teaching in both the c lassroom and the clinical setting. The concern for the nurse teacher t o be clinically credible will be considered essentially in relation to how such a demand may be perceived by the nurse teacher. The various interpretations given to the need to be 'clinically credible' are cons idered and the implications of interpretations that do not entail actu al direct care giving are discussed.