Nurse educators always have a dual role—they are both nurses and educators. As nurses they often have a specialty, such as psychiatric nursing or nephrology nursing, and they need to keep up with developments in that specialty, both in terms of the literature and the practice. When such nurses become educators, they also have to master the field of education, and keep up with what is new in the field of education, both in terms of theory and practice. We therefore believe that such nurse educators need constructive, stimulating and up-to-date texts to assist them in their task as educators of the new generation of nurses
