EXCERPT
This lovely mixed metaphor had its origins in a recent presentation by Vicky Niederhauser (2009), who described the need to shift from the longstanding “mother duck” model of clinical education and humorously portrayed the great risks to the “baby-duckling” nursing students as their mother-duck faculty member attempts to lead them through a clinical day. And the “mother lode?” That refers to the gold mine of potential learning that surely exists in clinical settings; however, there are many barriers to striking that mother lode—not least of which is a model of clinical education that is ill-suited to contemporary practice.
AUTHOR
Christine A. Tanner, PhD, RN, FAAN, Editor
The author has no financial or proprietary interest in the materials presented herein.
doi:10.3928/01484834-20091216-01
