Nurse education today
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Nurse education today · Feb 2008
Review'New professionalism'-shifting relationships between nursing education and nursing practice.
New professionalism values egalitarian professional-client partnerships and considers competence integral. Within nursing competence has been accepted as the legitimate indicator of professional practice. ⋯ In this paper I argue that new professionalism is problematic and nursing education faces particular challenges. These include negotiating service-education partnerships which reflect service user involvement and enable the integration of wider notions of competence.