Nursing Student Clinical Placement

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Nursing Student Clinical Placement
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Nursing Student Clinical Placement Expectations
And Planning

• As a practice-based profession, clinical
  placement is key for nursing students. It is the
  arena that enables them to apply the knowledge
  gained during classes it is how key skills and
  competencies are developed by doing hands-on
  work, and how students can begin to experience
  the intricacies and the environment of their
  future workplace. It allows them to be better
  prepared for the moment when they enter the
  health care field and begin working with
  patients, doctors and other nurses.
• Nurses play a central role in the overall
  provision of care. This does not end with the
  administration of medication and treatments it
  goes beyond that into being appropriately
  equipped to offer emotional support, education
  and counselling to patients and families, and
  simultaneously being able to effectively work
  side by side with other health care professional
  to achieve desired outcomes.

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• Effective clinical placements for nursing
  students should take place within a variety of
  settings and should also allow the future nurse
  to
• Discover the variety of learning opportunities
  available in health care environments
• Work under high-pressure and challenging frames
  that require fast and informed decision making
  many times
• Get acquainted with the dynamics of the job
• Learning efficient time management and
  prioritization
• Developing a solution-oriented mindset
• Working and learning from patients just as much
  as other medical colleagues
• It should be the goal of any valuable clinical
  placement program to allow students to have a
  diversity of experiences across primary care
  settings and ultimately, building momentum
  towards successful certification exams and the
  beginning of their professional careers.

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• For students, their first clinical placement is
  an exciting time. Its a milestone signalling
  that things are finally becoming real and they
  are moving from notebooks to patient charts.
  Preparation is essential in making sure the
  experience lends itself to as much learning as
  possible. One of the main things to be noted is
  that in health care settings, flexibility is
  king. Being able to move shifts around and deal
  with unexpected schedule changes are going to be
  important, especially if the student wishes to
  practice side by side with a mentor whose
  schedule is always subject to change.
• Many will find juggling school, clinical
  placement and social life overwhelming. Here is
  where organization skills will have to kick in.
  Luckily, technology has solutions to help ease
  the burden. For example, a cloud-based student
  nurse scheduling solution such as the one
  provided by Rotation Manager can take some of the
  pressure off by helping keep track of patient
  records, schedules, background checks and drug
  screenings and even getting job references.
• The beginning of a clinical placement program
  will always be an exciting yet an intense time,
  especially when working in units where the full
  spectrum of medical conditions is present from
  day one. Regardless of this, working in health
  care is one of the most rewarding careers and
  with every patient helped, the motivation to do
  more and better will only increase.

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3 Tips For Winning The Final Step Of Student
Nursing Life

• For nurse students, the culmination of all their
  efforts, learnings, experiences, trainings and
  even failures and quite frankly their future
  careers rest on one final step the management
  placement. While the most overconfident of
  students will feel it is a done deal, practicing
  caution and assertiveness can make a huge
  difference. While its important to take a step
  back and congratulate yourself for reaching this
  final stage, now is not the time to lay low and
  take it easy theres one more final push of
  student life required.
• However, at this point the majority of students
  should feel more comfortable walking in an extra
  busy ward, dealing with difficult patients and
  cases, administering medicines and treatments and
  managing a schedule that can change in a
  heartbeat. While the planning and organizing
  should get easier at this stage, the reality is
  it never does, so being adaptable, flexible and
  responsive will always be valuable to any future
  nurse.

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• As final exams, certifications and the thrilling
  job seek all begin unravelling, a couple of
  useful tips can make this final push, a smooth
  ride.
• Be prepared, do some research
• Every placement will be different and require
  different aptitudes and attitudes. The basic
  skills and learnings will always be valuable,
  but preparation will be key from day one. A
  pre-placement visit is always a good idea.
  Getting a head start and going in for a visit to
  meet the mentor and future colleagues, asking
  questions and getting useful pre-reads and even
  getting familiar with the setting itself with
  calm some of the nerves and ensure a smoother
  start.

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• Creating SMART objectives
• One of the best ways to make sure goals are set
  right is to think about them as Specific,
  Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely.
  Take for instance, a student nurse who aims to be
  able to administer treatments without supervision
  by following appropriate procedures and providing
  sufficient information to patients is a smart
  goal which can be measured in a period of 3
  months or so and proven by the number of patients
  who in that timeframe have received information
  about the drugs they have been given and why, and
  as well through the documentation available that
  resulted from that. Goals should not be any more
  than five to ensure success.
• Thorough and thoughtful planning
• By now, every single nurse student must be aware
  of the importance of planning. Managing time and
  patient load on top of other responsibilities is
  not the easiest thing to do, but is a skill to
  master. As best practice, its important to start
  off small with a couple of patients and learning
  their file to their fully. As time goes by, the
  same can be applied with an increasing number of
  patients. Getting a planner such as Rotation
  Manager can help centralize important documents,
  access shift and patient information easily,
  order checks and drug screenings, all from a
  phone. Lastly, the most important thing to
  understand is that for every mistake, there is a
  lesson learned and its always helpful to take a
  moment and self-congratulate for the progress
  made so far.

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Track Rotation and Meet Standards with Rotation
Manager

• Among the most challenging tasks that nursing
  schools and hospitals come up against on a
  regular basis is scheduling the rotations for
  their nursing students.
• Its a crucial task because any scheduling errors
  can create a whole series of problems like
  failing to adequately cover the care of patients,
  damaging a hospitals reputation for standards,
  giving the nursing students too few hours, as
  well as a host of other potential complications
  for nursing schools.
• This is where Rotation Manager (https//rotationma
  nager.com/) can help. It is a solution for
  scheduling nurse rotations that is cloud-based so
  requires no installation, but offers significant
  benefits for every person and institution
  involved in the process of drawing up a rotation
  schedule.

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• It offers all that is required for setting
  clinical rotations including
• The ability to track rotations Ensuring
  requirements are met on time Enabling schedules
  and hours to be uploaded from mobile devices
  The ordering of background checks The ordering
  of drug screenings Getting job references.
• Rotation Manager is not only user-friendly but it
  also includes a mobile web-app that enables
  nursing students to access information about
  their instructors, shifts, and other relevant
  data from their mobile devices. Students are also
  able to request that they are referred for jobs
  by their hospital educators to hospital HR
  departments where their rotations are taking
  place.
• An online clinical journal is among the benefits
  for nursing students. It enables them to make
  notes about their clinical experiences and allows
  them to give feedback to their instructors. In
  addition, its possible for them to request and
  store in a built-in vault any electronic letters
  of recommendation from their instructors.

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• Rotation Manager makes the challenge of
  scheduling rotations much easier and a lot more
  efficient.  By utilizing Rotation Managers
  functionality is among the easiest ways of
  preventing any compromised compliance standards
  and eliminating inefficient rotation scheduling.
• Rotation Manager offers many benefits to Nursing
  Students, Hospitals, and Schools and has helped
  many nursing programs significantly reduce the
  paperwork that previously added to their
  problems. It has played a big part in helping
  eliminate audit failure.
• By securely centralizing documents in a protected
  location accessible to all parties makes it much
  easier to track all of the important
  documentation needed at each step of the process.
• Those hospitals and schools that have been using
  the Rotation Manager software agree that
  affiliations between all parties involved in
  scheduling rotations have been greatly
  strengthened.