HARAMAYA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH & MEDICAL

SCIENCES

SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY

MAJOR IN MATERNITY AND NEONATAL NURSING AND ADULT

HEALTH

Assignment on Manage Clinical Practice

Prepared BY; Abdisham sh/yusuf Adem

SUPERVISOR: Gugsa Nemera (BSC, MScN, Assistant Prof, PhD fellow)

April, 27 2018
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 Manage Clinical Practice

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 OUTLINE
•Objectives

• Introduction

•Clinical Practice Team

•Select clinical instructors and staff

•Coordinate clinical practice

•Conduct clinical practice sessions

•Giving Feedback Clinical practice

• Monitor students’ progress

•Summary

•Reference
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 OBJECTIVES
At the end of this session the students should be able to:-
 Select and prepare clinical instructors and staff

 Coordinate clinical practice

 Conduct clinical practice sessions

 Monitor students’ progress

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 INTRODUCTION

Who are the key individuals that participate in successful clinical

practice?

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 Clinical Practice Team

• Students

• Teacher

• Clinical instructor / Staff members working in the clinic/Hospital

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 1. Selecting Clinical Instructors
• What quality that these individuals must have?

• Desire to work with students

• Proficient healthcare delivery skills that are consistent with what is being taught

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills

• Organizational skills

• Teaching skills

• Time available

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 Strengthening Clinical Instructors
• Clinical knowledge and skills are up-to-date
• Teaching skills
• Introduce skill
• Demonstrate skill
• Coaching
• Assessing students, performance

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 2. Coordinate clinical practice
• Coordination includes ensuring that all involved
• Understand their roles and responsibilities
• Planning clinical practice
• Structuring clinical practice and
• Ensuring that logistics have been properly managed, to provide the
best learning experience.

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Coordinated clinical practice requires clarifying role and
responsibilities.

• Role of Students

• Role of Teacher/ Clinical instructor/Staff members

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Coordinated clinical practice requires careful
planning of activities.

•How can you determine to assign your students in different clinical

setting

OPD,

In pt. ,

Outreach clinic,

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Cont.…

• Plan a rotation system if there are more learners than can be

accommodated.

• To ensuring that all learner have adequate opportunity

do not overwhelm one area .

• Schedule clinical practice for times that have heaviest client flow.
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Cont.…

• Spread clinical practice out over a net work of clinical practice

site .
• Prepare activities(case study, role play…) to expand the
learners range of experience .
• Prepare activities that the learner can do during “down
times”.
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Cont.…

• Move from basic /simple to more complex skills.

• Move students from observation to direct work with patients.

• Structure activities to allow for the most interaction with patients.

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 3, Facilitate clinical practice session(before
clinical practice) .
1. Meet with clinical staff/clinical preceptors to review and discuss .

Purpose of training.

Benefit of the training to the facility .

Learning opportunity that exist.

2. Visit the different area where learners will be assigned for any
problem .
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Cont..
3. Meet with learners before the session
Item to be covered include
olearning objective of that day or the clinical session .

oAssignment to be completed.

oThe topic for the post-session meeting .

oHow feedback will be provided in the clinical setting .

oWhere to go if have question or difficulties.

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 During clinical practice session

• Continue the process of facilitating skill development

• Demonstrate skill(if necessary) .

• Observe learner’s performance.

• Provide feedback.

• Check them periodically to make sure everything is running smoothly.

• Always maintain positive learning environment .

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 Giving Feedback Clinical Practice

• Feedback before practice should be given before entering the room .

• Feed back after practice can be delayed until completed (not the end
of the day).

• Allow the learner to apply the feedback with next client.

• Some feedback can be given during the procedure it self (if needed).

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 Structure of feedback

1st : the learner should identify personal strength and area where
improvement is needed.
2nd: the trainer provide specific feedback that includes suggestion
what and how to improve .
• Finally: the learner and trainer should agree on the focus of
training.

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 Protect Patient’s Rights
• Inform the patient of the role of each person involved.

• Obtain the patient’s permission before having perform any

procedures.

• Respect the right to bodily privacy.

• Strictly observe the confidentiality.

• Understanding the right to refuse care.

• Safe practice, quality service and clean facility.

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 After clinical practice session
• Meet with the students at the end of the session(every day).

• Review the learning objectives and assess students’ progress toward meeting
them.

• Present cases seen that day, particularly those that were interesting, unusual,
or difficult.

• Provide an opportunity for students to ask questions.

• Ask students questions about cases or their care plans.

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 4.Monitor Students’ Progress
• Monitor students’ that the session is providing adequate and appropriate
learning activities.

• N.B. Monitoring refers to following students’ activities, not assessing their

competency.

• Logbooks

• Student performance reports.

• Field notebooks (often used during community or home visits).

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 summary

Coordinating clinical practice includes;

 Clarifying roles and responsibilities.

 Planning clinical practice.

 Structuring clinical practice and

 Ensuring that logistics .

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 THANK YOU
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ATTENTION

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 Reference

Effective teaching a guide for educating healthcare providers by the

World Health Organization and JHPIEGO.

Thompson J, R Kershbaumer, and M Krisman-Scott. 2001. Educating

Advanced Practice Nurses and Midwives: From Practice to Teaching.

Springer Publishing Company: New York.

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