[Nursing and clinical tutoring. An experience at University of Chieti]

The national and international experiences of tutoring certainly show today more conformity with the necessities of a formation centred on the student,based on the needs of a society in continuous change, able to form professional people, who can assure and keep adequate levels of competences. Adults' learning active models especially, support the tutoring of teaching and furnish tutors with methods ad instruments which permit to effect efficaciously and efficiently their specific function. The clinical tutoring course for nurses in Chieti University consented to clinical tutors to acquire and/or reinforce psychological, pedagogical, clinical, ethical and managerial competences.