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Abstract
Perfect for:
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Bachelor of Nursing students
- Diploma of Nursing students
An essential resource to prepare nursing students for their clinical placements and gain the most from their experiences.
With a focus on expectations and how to think, act, feel and communicate within complex clinical environments, Clinical Placement: An essential guide for nursing students, 3rd Edition provides tips for maximising learning opportunities and practical strategies for dealing with difficult and challenging situations.
Evolve Resources: The Clinical Placement, 3rd Edition is supported by an engaging series of video interviews with nurses from a diverse range of clinical practice areas. Each nurse shares insights, advice, highlights challenges and opportunities, and assists with tips for clinical placement.
- Evolve resources include: o 12 video interviews with nurses from a range of clinical practice areas o ‘Need to know’ quick tips o ‘Challenges you may encounter’
- Other key features within the chapters include: Something to Think About, Student Experience case studies and Coaching Tips.
- Greater emphasis on cultural sensitivity, simulation as preparation for practice, patient safety, inter-professional communication and professional portfolio development
- Coaching Tips – advice on common issues
- Something to Think About – encourages students to relate theory to their own practice.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front cover | cover | ||
| Half title page | i | ||
| Evolve page | ii | ||
| The Clinical Placement | iii | ||
| Copyright page | iv | ||
| Table of Contents | v | ||
| Dedications | viii | ||
| About the authors | ix | ||
| Reviewers | x | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| How to use this book | 2 | ||
| Clinical Placement Insights | 3 | ||
| 1 The rules of engagement | 5 | ||
| Introduction | 5 | ||
| Know the lie of the land | 5 | ||
| The clinical placement—what it is and why it matters | 6 | ||
| Clinical learning | 6 | ||
| Clinical placement patterns | 7 | ||
| Clinical placement settings | 7 | ||
| Person-centred care | 8 | ||
| Models of care | 11 | ||
| Competent practice | 12 | ||
| Working within your scope of practice | 15 | ||
| Why is it essential to understand and work within your scope of practice? | 15 | ||
| Why do you need to discuss your scope of practice with the nurses you work with? | 16 | ||
| Supervision and support | 16 | ||
| Student support services | 20 | ||
| Working hard to belong | 22 | ||
| First impressions last | 23 | ||
| Mandatory requirements for clinical placements | 24 | ||
| The roles and responsibilities of the interprofessional healthcare team | 26 | ||
| References | 29 | ||
| 2 Great expectations | 31 | ||
| Introduction | 31 | ||
| Patients’ expectations | 31 | ||
| Clinicians’ expectations | 34 | ||
| Managers’ expectations | 34 | ||
| Professional expectations | 35 | ||
| National competency standards for nurses | 35 | ||
| Code of ethics for Australian nurses | 36 | ||
| Code of conduct for Australian nurses | 36 | ||
| Legal requirements | 37 | ||
| Privacy and confidentiality | 37 | ||
| Privacy | 37 | ||
| Confidentiality | 39 | ||
| Speak up, speak out | 40 | ||
| Don’t take things personally | 43 | ||
| Compliance and compromise | 44 | ||
| Exercise your rights | 45 | ||
| References | 47 | ||
| 3 How you act | 49 | ||
| Introduction | 49 | ||
| Cultural competence | 50 | ||
| Patient safety | 54 | ||
| Clinical governance | 57 | ||
| Best practice | 58 | ||
| Sources of evidence and knowledge | 59 | ||
| Tradition | 59 | ||
| Authority | 59 | ||
| Clinical experience | 59 | ||
| Intuition | 59 | ||
| Trial and error | 59 | ||
| Assembled information | 59 | ||
| Evidence-based research | 60 | ||
| Advocacy | 60 | ||
| Student advocacy | 61 | ||
| Managing conflict | 62 | ||
| Dealing with horizontal violence | 63 | ||
| Dealing with sexual harassment | 66 | ||
| What is sexual harassment? | 66 | ||
| Taking care of yourself | 67 | ||
| Putting work ahead of your studies | 69 | ||
| Reflection | 70 | ||
| Clinical placements at distant locations | 70 | ||
| Clinical learning objectives | 71 | ||
| Student assessment | 73 | ||
| Giving and receiving gifts | 74 | ||
| Gifts of appreciation from students | 76 | ||
| Accepting thanks | 76 | ||
| Visitors during clinical placements | 76 | ||
| Using supplies from the healthcare organisation | 77 | ||
| Punctuality and reliability | 78 | ||
| References | 79 | ||
| 4 How you think and feel | 83 | ||
| Introduction | 83 | ||
| Caring | 84 | ||
| Reflective practice | 85 | ||
| Keeping a journal | 86 | ||
| Reality check and seeking feedback | 89 | ||
| How do I see myself? | 89 | ||
| How do others see me? | 90 | ||
| Emotional intelligence | 91 | ||
| Critical thinking and clinical reasoning | 92 | ||
| Critical thinking | 93 | ||
| Clinical reasoning | 95 | ||
| Why do nursing students need to learn how to engage in clinical reasoning? | 97 | ||
| Ethical dilemmas in nursing | 101 | ||
| What is ethics and why do nurses need to understand it? | 102 | ||
| Examples of ethical principles | 102 | ||
| What is an ethical dilemma? | 102 | ||
| What is moral distress? | 103 | ||
| Crossing the line | 103 | ||
| What are boundaries? | 104 | ||
| What purpose do boundaries serve? | 104 | ||
| References | 105 | ||
| 5 How you communicate | 107 | ||
| Introduction | 107 | ||
| Therapeutic communication | 108 | ||
| Interprofessional and intraprofessional communication | 111 | ||
| Communicating as a professional nurse | 112 | ||
| Introducing yourself to other health professionals | 113 | ||
| Introducing yourself to patients and families | 113 | ||
| First name basis? | 114 | ||
| Diversity and its impact on clinical communication | 115 | ||
| Receptive communication | 116 | ||
| Expressive communication | 117 | ||
| Written communication | 118 | ||
| Cultural and professional issues | 118 | ||
| Using professional language | 120 | ||
| Your voice in the clinical environment | 121 | ||
| Documentation and legal issues | 122 | ||
| Patient handover | 125 | ||
| Electronic documentation in healthcare | 127 | ||
| Information and communication technology in healthcare and in education | 127 | ||
| Telephones and the internet | 129 | ||
| Telephone guidelines | 129 | ||
| Use of social media | 131 | ||
| Self-disclosure | 134 | ||
| Receiving and providing effective feedback | 135 | ||
| Feedback on student performance | 135 | ||
| Providing feedback on your placement experience | 135 | ||
| References | 136 | ||
| Glossary | 139 | ||
| Index | 143 | ||
| A | 143 | ||
| B | 143 | ||
| C | 143 | ||
| D | 144 | ||
| E | 144 | ||
| F | 145 | ||
| G | 145 | ||
| H | 145 | ||
| I | 145 | ||
| J | 146 | ||
| L | 146 | ||
| M | 146 | ||
| N | 146 | ||
| O | 147 | ||
| P | 147 | ||
| R | 147 | ||
| S | 148 | ||
| T | 148 | ||
| U | 149 | ||
| V | 149 | ||
| W | 149 |