Table 1 Linkage between research objectives and data components

1. To explore issues of accountability and quality control between the clinical domain and the university, that is educational governance, in clinical, work-based specialty education.

University academic staff.

In-depth interviews with university academic staff supporting the nurse practitioner students’ clinical learning, especially perceptions of academic governance of specialty learning and teaching.

Clinical mentors.

In-depth interviews with clinical mentors responsible for teaching nurse practitioner specialty standards, including perceptions of influences on clinical learning and teaching.

Occasions of nurse practitioner student clinical learning and teaching.

Direct observation of nurse practitioner students’ clinical learning and teaching episodes.

Nurse practitioner students.

In-depth interviews with nurse practitioner students, especially perceptions of influences on clinical learning and teaching and teaching documents associated with clinical learning for each nurse practitioner student.

2. For a purposeful sample of nurse practitioner students, to explore how a theoretical framework of capability influences curriculum learning outcomes.

Clinical mentors.

In-depth interviews with clinical mentors responsible for teaching nurse practitioner specialty standards, especially perceptions of meeting curriculum learning outcomes related to the attributes of capability.

Nurse practitioner students.

In-depth interviews with nurse practitioner students, especially perceptions of meeting curriculum learning outcomes related to the attributes of capability.

Occasions of nurse practitioner student clinical learning and teaching.

Observational data of nurse practitioner students’ clinical learning and teaching episodes. Teaching documents associated with clinical learning for each nurse practitioner student.