Abstract
Accompaniment that enables student nurses to give concrete form to abstract
theoretical knowledge in nursing practice, is a contemporary nursing educational
matter.
The aim of this study i s to describe guidelines for accompaniment regarding the
correlation of theory and practice for the four year Diploma programme leading
to registration as a nurse (general, psychiatric and community) and midwife
which would enable independent nursing practice.
The aim is expounded by way of a contextual, investigative and descriptive
study wherein the requirements for accompaniment have been identified and
described as well as the investigation and description of the realisation of
accompaniment within an accompaniment partnership in order to describe
guidelines for the correlation of theory and practice during the accompaniment
of student nurses.
In the formulation of the guidelines for accompaniment "that which should be"
and "that which is" are combined by way of inductive logic.
The guidelines for accompaniment is based on the philosophical viewpoints of
the Nursing theory for the whole person.
M.Cur. (Nursing)