Learning in Partnership

Abstract

This chapter outlines the need for robust academic-practice partnerships required to deliver high quality, effective education programmes for nurses and midwives in the UK. A number of roles currently exist to support learning in practice with the mentor primarily taking responsibility. All roles, whether clinical educator, mentor or link lecturer, have been shown to be problematic for a number of reasons including workloads, competing demands and lack of clarity on expectations (Carnwell et al., 2007; Carr, 2008; Barrett (2007).