Maintenance of current clinical knowledge is essential to nurse teachers--based on the situation in China

During the last decades, especially since the 1970s, an abundance of nurse education programs have been established in The People's Republic of China. Nurses have better opportunities for education than ever before. It is common knowledge that the quality of the student nurse is closely related to the quality of the nursing teaching. The level of teaching depends on faculty members' experience as well as on instructional material. Furthermore, it is important that the teaching is related to practical situations. Based on necessities, however, the instructional material can be changed by the educators. Consequently, faculty members are essential to the improvement and enhancement of the teaching quality. This paper has been written with a view to the present situation of nursing education in China in order to emphasize the importance of maintaining and renewing clinical knowledge to nurse teachers.