The Clinical Placement:: An Essential Guide for Nursing Students is a unique survival tool designed to assist nursing students, and their facilitators, as they navigate their way through the clinical learning journey. Written in an interactive and engaging style, the authors utilise real-world tales and coaching tips to explore complex dilemmas and concerns, and suggest how potential problems can be prevented or resolved. Contemporary workplace concepts such as patient-centered care and advocacy, clinical governance, and codes of conduct are explored; interpersonal issues such as confidentiality, assertiveness and team work are discussed; and practical skills that address how you think, act, feel and communicate are all directed towards developing confident, competent and professional nurses. A compilation of expert insights that explore the opportunities, challenges and rewards across a diverse range of specialty areas provides a fitting and inspiring finale to this essential resource for nursing students.
1.1 Know the lie of the land 1.2 The clinical placement - what it is and why it matters 1.3 Patient-centred care 1.4 Models of care 1.5 Competent practice 1.6 Working within your scope of practice 1.7 Clinical placements at distant locations 1.8 Who shall I turn to? 1.9 Working hard, but not too hard 1.10 Privacy 1.11 Confidentiality 1.12 First impressions last 1.13 Competing needs 1.14 The generation gap 1.15 The roles and functions of interdisciplinary healthcare team 1.16 Networking * Reflective Thinking activities * References
Chapter 2 - Great Expectations
2.1 Patients expectations 2.2 Clinicians expectations 2.3 Professional expectations 2.4 Dont apologise for being a student 2.5 Speak up, speak out 2.6 Exercise your rights 2.7 Youre not the boss of me (Oh Really?) 2.8 Dont take everything personally 2.9 Compliance and compromise 2.10 Being naive * Reflective Thinking activities * References
Chapter 3 - How You Act
3.1 Cultural competence 3.2 The value of a smile 3.3 Teamwork 3.4 Managing conflict 3.5 Dealing with horizontal violence 3.6 Dealing with sexual harassment 3.7 Taking care of yourself 3.8 Patient advocacy 3.9 Best practice 3.10 Practice principles 3.11 Clinical governance 3.12 Clinical learning objectives 3.13 Student assessment 3.14 Giving and receiving 3.15 Documentation and legal issues 3.16 Visitors during clinical placement 3.17 Using the company supplies * Reflective Thinking activities * References
Chapter 4 - How You Think (and Feel)
4.1 Caring 4.2 Reflective practice 4.3 Reality check and seeking feedback 4.4 Articulating your learning needs 4.5 Ethical dilemmas in nursing 4.6 Crossing over the line 4.7 Punctuality and reliability 4.8 Taking the initiative 4.9 Putting work ahead of your studies 4.10 Getting the support you need * Reflective Thinking activities * References
Chapter 5 - How You Communicate
5.1 What is a nurse? 5.2 Welcome to Australia 5.3 Using professional language 5.4 Patient handover 5.5 Your voice in the clinical environment 5.6 Telephones and the internet 5.7 Self disclosure 5.8 Providing effective feedback * Reflective Thinking activities * References Chapter 6 - Insights from Clinical Experts
6.1 Child and adolescent health nursing, Dr Diana Keatinge
6.2 Community health nursing, Cheryle Morley, Bronwyn Warne
6.3 Critical care nursing, Jan Roche
6.4 Day surgery nursing, Alison Anderson
6.5 Developmental Disability Nursing, Kristen Wiltshire, Bill Learmonth
6.6 Indigenous health nursing, Rebekah OReilly
6.7 Justice health nursing, Petra Bell
6.9 Medical nursing, Kristine Roberts
6.10 Mental health nursing, Professor Mike Hazelton
6.11 Midwifery, Nita Purcal
6.12 Occupational health nursing, Judy Carlisle
6.13 Older person care, Tina Koch
6.13 Palliative care, Amanda Johnson
6.14 Perioperative nursing, Menna Davies
6.15 General practice nursing, Elizabeth J Halcomb
6.16 Private hospital nursing, Deánne Gromilund, Lynette Saul, Margaret Mason
6.17 Rural health nursing, Andrew Christopherson
6.18 Surgical nursing, Dee Maguire
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