Patient Involvement in the Assessment of Pre-registration Adult Nursing Students' Practice
Journal: Open Access at Essex (University of Essex)
Year: 2018

Background: Patient involvement in practice assessment was first introduced in 1996 but failed to establish itself as a routine part of nurse training. Fourteen years later, in 2010 the UK Nursing and Midwifery Council restated this requirement in response to concerns that university-based nursing education was not producing caring and compassionate nurses. This concern speaks to two enduring discourses around the professionalisation of nursing. First, there is a discourse of nursing as a caring