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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Clinical Placements"”.
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An Ethnographic Study of Pre-Graduate, Precepted Nursing Student Clinical Placements in Long-Term Care Homes
… and nursing student disinterest in such clinical placements and careers, underscore this study’s urgent need. This qualitative focused ethnography explored preceptor, faculty advisor, and pre-graduate student beliefs, values, and practices contributing to positive LTC home clinical …
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Cultural issues in pre-registered mental health student nurses’ clinical placements: an anthropologically informed critical incident study
… cultural issues in mental health student nurses’ clinical placements and to explore how these issues in placements were dealt with, from the perspectives of years two and three mental health student nurses and their undergraduate university nursing educators. ‘Critical incident’ (Fitzgerald, 2000) …
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Academic nurse educators’ experiences and perceptions of supporting adult nursing students in clinical placements in nursing homes: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
… nursing homes favourably compared to hospital placements. The role of the nurse educator is an important one in reinforcing the importance of care that takes place in a nursing home AIM: This thesis aims to explore nurse educators’ experiences and perceptions of supporting adult nursing …
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Understanding experiences of medical students' clinical learning in the paediatric environment
INTRODUCTION: Clinical placements form the cornerstone of medical student training to become a doctor. For most medical programmes, this will be the place where students will spend the majority of their time throughout their degree. Yet the clinical setting has multiple challenges as a learning …
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An exploration of empowerment amongst final-yearundergraduate nursing students while onclinical placement in Ireland usingSocial Domain Theory
… or inhibit empowerment development during the clinical placement of final-year undergraduate nursing students in Ireland. Empowerment is a topical concept used not only in health care but also in business and education. However, few studies have looked at the impact of clinical placements on …
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Maintaining the quality of clinical education in physiotherapy
… students have led to problems in acquiring extra placements in which these students can experience their clinical education. This problem has been accentuated by difficulties with recruitment and retention of physiotherapy staff that might take on the role of clinical educator. This study uses …
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Transition and the international taught postgraduate nursing student: qualitative evidence from Middle Eastern students in a UK university
… and the professional standards demanded in clinical placements.<br/><br/>The thesis concludes that international postgraduate middle eastern students enrolled on a clinical programme are not only challenged while adapting culturally and socially to the new host country but also experience …
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Exploring student nurses’ and nurse educators’ experiences of simulation-based pedagogy using case-study research
… complex patient cases at a time of reduction in clinical placements (NMC, 2010a and b). Simulation is a method that has been embraced, by some, for preparing for these challenges, with the potential to escalate student skills and knowledge in a meaningful way (Benner, 1984). The aim of this study …
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Mentors' experiences of supporting pre-registration nursing students : a grounded-theory study
… who support pre-registration nursing students in clinical practice. The research was conducted in a remote and rural Scottish Health Board area. It poses the question, 'What role do mentors play in facilitating learning in practice?' Sub-questions explore how mentors see their role in promoting …
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Simulated Practice Learning Design (SPL): A Framework for a Customised Approach
… learnt in university and practice. Moreover, clinical placements, a crucial part of undergraduate nurse education, vary significantly between students. Simulated Practice Learning offers one solution to address these gaps in curricula. It provides a controlled, safe environment where specific …
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Exploration of preregistration Radiography education and training models in sub-Saharan Africa: An explanatory sequential mixed-methods study
… were observed in curriculum design, content, clinical exposure, and scope of practice across SSA. The study data revealed misalignment between training and workforce demands, particularly in cross-sectional imaging modalities. Clinical placements were found to be crucial for developing …
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Performance or Presence? Examining the Private Parts of Australian Medical Education
… a focus group, and textual analysis of clinical examination textbooks and medical student publications, I argue that medical education needs to teach both subject-object and performative understandings of clinical relations as well as embodied empathic understandings of clinical and …
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Self-assessments skills of occupational therapy students.
… Students and academic stab identified clinical placements as the area within which, most commonly selfassessment occurred and developed. Students were generally positive with regard to self-assessment being used within the academic components of the course, however, staff were more …
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An analysis of physiotherapy classroom-based teaching and hospital practical skills in Zambia
… delivery systems. The changes have rendered the clinical-set up to be complex, ambiguous and unstable. Some physiotherapy training programmes have not kept the pace of change as that recorded in the health care delivery systems during the last ten years. The uneven changes between the health care …
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The role of simulation-based learning environments in preparing undergraduate health students for clinical practice
… education context has been achieved through clinical placements (CPs) that see students ‘apprentice’ in real clinical settings. The literature suggests there are a number of factors that diminish a student’s ability to learn in such environments, including limited opportunities to practice, …
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The hidden role: a focused ethnographic study of the nurse link tutor in higher education
… undergraduate, adult field nursing students on clinical placements. A guiding theoretical framework of symbolic interactionism used throughout this study contributed to an interpretation of the nurse link tutors' role from participants' perspectives and an understanding of the factors that …
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Exploring the Decision-Making Process Behind the Loss of a Clinical Placement: Second-Year Nursing Students in the Special Care Nursery
… to stop taking second-year nursing students for clinical placement. A qualitative intrinsic case study approach was utilized to guide and analyze twelve participant interviews. Participants were recruited using both purposeful and snowball sampling. Sharan Merriam (1998) was utilized as a …
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Clinical education in physiotherapy: The experiences of final year students workplace-based learning at the University of Cape Town
Clinical education in the profession of Physiotherapy involves the teaching and training of students in real life clinical settings such as hospitals and clinics. The pedagogical support that Physiotherapy students receive in clinical settings is both formal and informal (Dornan, 2012). In the …