Enhancing healthcare students' clinical placement experiences.
Pearce, Ruth Topping, Anne Willis, Carol
Pearce, Ruth
Topping, Anne
Willis, Carol
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2022-03-14
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Over the past few years, efforts to address a shortage of nurses in the UK has led to an increase in nursing student numbers. However, in one large UK healthcare trust, this increase in student numbers led to a need to improve the quality of the trust's clinical placements. To address this issue, the authors undertook a quality improvement project, in which focus groups were used to enable 53 nursing, allied health professional, midwifery and nursing associate students to have in-depth discussions about their clinical placement experiences in the trust. Three main themes emerged from the data: being part of a team; support; and being unprepared. Following the project, the trust introduced student-led clinical learning environments to provide an innovative practice-based experience for students.
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Pearce R, Topping A, Willis C. Enhancing healthcare students' clinical placement experiences. Nurs Stand. 2022 Mar 14. doi: 10.7748/ns.2022.e11887. Epub ahead of print
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