An important part of the student’s placement was to establish a learning contract with myself as her clinical mentor. The learning contract is a document used to assist in the planning of the student learning needs. It is written as an agreement which is negotiated between the student and myself as her the mentor. In order to do this successfully we needed to identify the student learning objectives which included the learning outcomes of the modules to be assessed in practice. As this was the student first year attempt to set a learning contract it was important for me to support her through the process. We discuss her prior learning I asked the student to identify her goals and aim to secure learning opportunities that support the achievement. …show more content…
The student stated she felt intimidated by the term learning contract mainly because of its legal connotation. Rather than concentrating her efforts on ‘learning ‘the placed far too much emphasis on ‘contract’, which made the whole process unnecessarily daunting. I was able to calmly and reassuringly discuss the discuss the process with the student and we shared ideas. This help the student to work through her concerns and take responsibility for her own learning. This not only encouraged the student to become an active participant in her learning but increased the student’s motivation for learning a concept of the adult learner ethos is, I think the bad thing about this …show more content…
When the initial learning contract was written learning about and understanding medications was not an identified need. However, after participating in the drug we identified it as a learning need and created an action plan. This was effective as the student by the end of the placement had achieved all her learning. She used the learning contract and my informal and formal feedback from other members of the team to achieve the step identified in the action. I believe that the relationship between the learner and I at the start of our mentoring helped us to facilitated a mutual respect and fondness for one another that proved to be very conductive and beneficial to our mentoring process. Her feedback appears to show the same sentiments as she described the entire process to be both informative and helpful, to her development as a nurse. The other nurses the student worked with also reported to me that she was good listener, was attentive to the advice they had to offer and she would always be eager to
The role of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) in health care has been identified as a critical role in the goal to provide high-quality health care. APRNs have a bigger role to play in the health care system and it is important that students are provided with relevant and valuable knowledge as well as experience that improve their abilities. Achieving course objectives are critical for APRNs with the goal of contributing positively to the health care system. As a future APRN, I place high priority on life-long learning and the development of other people’s skill sets. All duties associated with health care require a dedication to excellence and selflessness. These are two components of learning that will improve the capabilities of
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...ves with practice, it is important for students to gain knowledge about the skill and use them when on clinical placements. Learning these skills will also prepare the student nurses in future to delegate task when they qualify and become RN’s. In relation to my nursing practice, when I become a registered nurse, I will assist student nurses in their career by delegating tasks to them that are within their level of competence as well as making sure that all tasks assigned to them are duly supervised and follow up on the delegated task. I will encourage them to seek clarification where necessay. Providing feedback and praising them for work well done is another thing I would bring into my practice. I will equally inform them through feedback of any task which did not work well and show them areas where they need to improve upon.
It is important that students have the ability of being competent in a clinical setting. To be deemed competent in skills according to nursing regulations and requirements. This is a challenging factor for many students, as they enter transition period. This is due to students feel they do not have the desired clinical competency that promotes the skills and authorities of a registered nurse (Harsin, Soroor & Soodabeh, 2012). Clinical research studies have found that students do have the required expected levels of knowledge, attitude and behaviour’s. However, the range of practical skills aren’t sufficient for the range of practice settings (Evans, 2008). This research has also found that other evidenced based studies found that competency in nursing skills is still lacking (Evans, 2008). These skills are lacked by students and newly graduated nursing how are in the first or second year of
Conversely, I must be consistent, work hard, and show commitment to learning during the clinical rotation. I am hopeful that I will outgrow my fear and find my niche in the long run. I have found the didactic portion of the program to be a great learning experience. The amazing support of the instructors, the teaching methods they used, and the interaction with my peers via social media or group assignments have contributed to my academic growth. I have always felt the instructors’ involvement.
Drug administration forms a major part of the clinical nurse’s role. Medicines are prescribed by the doctor and dispensed by the pharmacist but responsibility for correct administration rests with the registered nurse (O'Shea 1999). So as a student nurse this has become my duty and something that I need to practice and become competent in carrying it out. Each registered nurse is accountable for his/her practice. This practice includes preparing, checking and administering medications, updating knowledge of medications, monitoring the effectiveness of treatment, reporting adverse drug reactions and teaching patients about the drugs that they receive (NMC 2008). Accountability also goes for students, if at any point I felt I was not competent enough to dispensing a certain drug it would be my responsibility in speaking up and let the registered nurses know, so that I could shadow them and have the opportunity to learn help me in future practice and administration.
As mentioned by Hunter and Arthur (2016), one of the main reasons I could maintain and improve my practice was due to clinical placements. During clinical placements we are frequently being assessed and taught in dealing with real situations. Feelings As learning is a lifelong process, I’m sure there are many things I need to improve and learn to better myself. However, the lessons I learned during the course as a nursing student shall always remain as a bedrock for my future development.
This essay is going to reflect upon the nursing skills I developed during a period of placement simulations, placing emphasis on oral care, communication with a non-engaging patient and bed bath. It will outline the fundamental aspects of clinical nursing skills that I have begun to acquire. This will also highlight the learning processes which took place and how it helped me to enhance my knowledge, and ethical values in order to deliver quality and safety of care. Using a variety of sources from current literature, I will use a reflective model to discuss how I have achieved the necessary level of learning outcome. By utilising this model I hope to demonstrate my knowledge and understanding in relation to these skills as well as identifying areas with scope for learning.
Nurses have both learning and teaching responsibilities. Continuing education for nurses is very important in order to maintain their knowledge and skills among the health care development. If it is true, that the ability of teaching is a complex process, one fundamental part of this process is the ability of the learner to receive information, process the information and carry out in practice. Learning, is a change in human ability or capability of willing to learn and act on the learning (Blais, Hayes, Kozier, & Erb, 2006); is a transformation of behaviors, existing knowledge, ability and values to change an area of need to become better as individual. When teaching how to use the EpiPen, the following components are applied and planned: detailed assessment of the learner, learner objectives, defined topic and outline for the learner, materials and teaching methods, teaching sessions with focus on an interpersonal process recording, and finally an evaluation of the teaching plan provided by return demonstration.
During March 2016, in Stage 1 of the pharmacy degree, I attended a two day work placement in a community pharmacy as part of the Work Based Learning module within the Capability unit. The purpose of Work Based Learning is to increase engagement with learning and to develop skills specific to patient pathways. This will link to Stage 4 of the MPharm course in which the main unit is Patient Centred Care. Therefore, it is imperative that I enhance my patient education skills through my own education.
Clinical placements allow student nurses to put theory into practice with real patients and actual clinical situations. Every placement will challenge student, improve communication skills, build own knowledge and foster own reflective practice. It is one of the most interesting and exciting aspects of training to be a nurse. I personally believe that, students must be responsible for their own learning opportunities and understand the outcomes they need to achieve on placement, discussing any queries with their clinical supervisor. I always look for learning opportunities. I approach my clinical supervisor for her guidance to perform any new skills fall into my scope of practice.
I believe placing student nurses in the clinical setting is vital in becoming competent nurses. Every experience the student experiences during their placement has an educative nature therefore, it is important for the students to take some time to reflect on these experiences. A specific situation that stood out to me from my clinical experience was that; I didn’t realize I had ignored the patient’s pain until I was later asked by the nurse if the patient was in any pain.
The concepts of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) was introduced by Professor Michael Hammer (Grover and Markus, 2008, Gunasekaran and Kobu, 2002, O’Neill and Sohal,1999), in the early to mid-1980s. There were many other authors who have subsequently published their own variant of BPR, authors such as Davenport/Short published their work shortly after Hammer.
The learning environment and practice placement I currently work in is a substance misuse service. The clinical learning environment is where students work directly with patients whilst enabling them to and are able to conductively learn. Burns and Patterson (2005) state it is the responsibility of higher education institutes in partnership with the NHS to prepare nurses to cope with the complex nature of clinical practice. In my opinion I believe mentors play a significant role in relation to the clinical learning environment, as mentors are who support the student during their placement. Students learn most effectively in the environments that facilitate learning by encouraging and supporting whilst also making them feel part of the team
I think our contracts would be absolutely fine if we passed them onto another school, but I think that I have some changes I could do, hahahahahaha. No seriously I think there are some wrong things in our contracts. Sure you should try to be happy and have good attitude, but what if you are going through a rough time. What if you got asked a eagle buck or a hcv. Are you supposed to be happy and jolly and not be mad or sad. I think that is something that I would change, and make it a bit more lenient. i think that upholding the standards always, also needs to be more lenient to. We can’t always do everything right sometimes we miss it. They can’t expect the acton eagles with all our flaws to hold everybody accountable every time the mess up.