Primary care experience “The pro-active student”.

Currently the emphasis on primary care is that of pro-active management and patient participation (South 2005). In a rights based health system it is argued that the patient has the right to expect, high quality and accountable nursing care, delivered by health care professionals who have the skills and experience to underpin this philosophy as advocates of professional practice (Barnes 1997). With the widening participation of patient involvement as promoted by the DoH( 2002), the prominence of a student who is equipped to function with transferable skills in practice is considered an essential component of Nurse education. The NMC competency framework (2010) articulates what needs to be achieved in nurse education, but it remains the role of the lecturer to identify how these may de delivered (Pijl-Zieber& Kalischuk 2011).