This book presents five significant areas of practice learning for student nurses and midwives and provides a guiding resource for practitioners at a time of significant change in the ethos and structure of practice learning

Dawn A. Morley is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Southampton Solent University.

Kathy Wilson is Associate Professor and Head of Practice-based Learning within the School of Health and Education at Middlesex University, London.

Natalie Holbery is Head of Nurse Education, University College London Hospitals (UCLH).

1. Introduction Kathy Wilson, Natalie Holbery and Dawn Morley 2. Socialisation and comprehensive orientation Lynn Quinlivan, Shoba Sookraj, Julie Moody, Anne Levington and Colin Taylor 3. 'Helpful Others': recognising informal support networks for students in the clinical setting Alison Dexter, Pam Hodge and Helen O'Toole 4. Student peer support and learning Kathy Wilson, Nora Cooper and Maurina Baron 5. Academic-practice partnerships Sinead Mehigan, Laura Pisaneschi and Justin Mc Dermott 6. Expansive Learning Natalie Holbery, Dawn Morley and Joady Mitchell 7. Recommendations for future practice education: Next Steps Kathy Wilson, Natalie Holbery and Dawn Morley