Teaching Skills For The Clinical Environment

Becoming a nurse means to truly understand, embrace, and acquire the characteristics of an educator, an advocate, a comforter, a therapist, a listener and most importantly a care giver. My goal as an undergraduate nurse is to acquire these characteristics and master them so that I can care for any patient regardless

As much as I loved studying this course, unfortunately due to homesickness I did not enjoy living in Scotland and being so far away from my family and friends has been difficult for me and thus for this reason, I have decided not to continue onto the second year of my degree and returned home to London. This experience has however allowed me to expand my teamworking and communication skills through speaking to patients and building good patient interactions. I also feel that it is important to have a sympathetic and caring nature to be able to help patients. I'm satisfied by impacting positively on those around me and caring for special care groups (young, elderly, and anxious) genuinely rewards my compassionate personality. Undertaking clinical treatment and manually implementing theoretical knowledge in tasks requiring precise dexterity are also components of the course that I enjoyed. My commitment and desire to become a dental hygienist and dental therapist has only been strengthened through this

In 1999 the UKCC set up a Commission for Nursing and Midwifery Education, which suggested that more emphasis should be placed on the development of competency in clinical skills within pre-registration nursing courses. Following this a new curriculum was developed, known as ‘Fitness for Practice.’ This new curriculum consisted of a one-year Common Foundation Programme followed by a two-year Branch Programme (Kozier 2012). According to the “Fundamentals of Nursing” by Kozier, 2012 this type of nurse education “reduced the amount of clinical experience student nurses were exposed to, but concentrated on social sciences and

During peer review of clinical teaching there are several components may be needed to be taken in consideration. Stanford faculty development program has established seven beneficial components for peer review clinical teaching and these are leaning climate, the control of the session, the communication goals, evaluation, understanding and retention and self-directed learning (Beckman,et al,2003,in Skeff 1988). In addition to these components’, clinicians teaching techniques such as bedside skills, didactic skills, reflation fostering are essential to be taken in account during peer review of teaching in clinical setting (Copeland and Hewson ,2000 ;Peyre et al, 2011).

My overall exposure to clinical experience from working as an Aerospace Medical Technician for the U.S Air Force is major a catalyst in influencing my decision to study medicine. If I am obligated to select a single experience, it would have to be the time that I was dispatched to the scene of an Air Force special operation field. The patient was a 19 year old Airmen who has been training to become a U.S Air Force Para-rescue jumper. The rigorous training certainly has taken a toll on his body, for he was diagnosed with Rhabdomyolysis. I was fortunate enough to be one of the medical personnel to first make contact with him and I also had the chance to follow up with him all the way up until he was discharged. As I reflect on how much progress

One cause of the problem is staff and provider routine; this is how the facility has always provided this information to patients. Staff and providers want to stay within their comfort level; therefore, they are reluctant to try new processes.

A higher completion rate among pre-registration nurses will enhance the NHS workforce of qualified nurses and will help towards the Department of Health Our Health, Our Care, Our Say (DOH 2006a) goal to ensure individual excellence of care for all. Higher retention of students would also aide the HEIs involved in the education of pre-registration nursing as SHA and Government targets will be met and financial penalties

Studying A-levels has enabled me to work independently and cope with stress of exams, skills I will use throughout my degree and in my profession. Through A-level Psychology I have learnt that nursing involves treating the psychological needs of a patient as well as the physical needs. For example,

One goal related to my personal self awareness and growth as being student nurse is able to implement all my head to toe assessment skills that I learned in lab class and try to make a change in patient's lives as much as possible. Moreover to be a specific goal is not be able to make a medication adminstration error that could harm client's health more than nursing goal I would want to focus on client's goal that way I can provide nest care and learn more from patients.

My second concrete experience that was a value to my learning was going with service users to help out with Meals on Wheels. The staff drove to different houses around Stoke to drop off the meals. Some users got to deliver meals by themselves, while some others needed support with staff. This experience was valuable because I got to see service users feeling like they were doing something helpful and important for the community.

Currently I don’t think I will like to work in this clinical area because it is too much critical thinking, stressful environment and too much responsibility for me based on my education and experience. In addition, I am not good working with pediatrics/child because it is very difficult to understand their problems and needs. However, I really enjoy the work area because the nurses help each other, doctors where always around to answer questions whenever nurses have a questions, the unit was also very quiet which is very nice because having quiet environment is important to think critically for the patients’ health conditions. In the future I might work in Emergency department with adults once I get more experience and

In order to be successful in these classes, it is very important to set learning goals so as a way to measure how successful one was after the completion of the class. The learning goals that were set on the discussion are as follows: to utilize my critical thinking skills through experience, problem-solving, and theories, to communicate better in a more professional manner both written and informal ways and to to value learning in nursing as a lifelong process through professionalism, and continuing education.

Clinical teaching is crucial in the clinical environment to every health profession, especially in nursing care. It is critical to adapt good teaching skills to meet individual’s learning needs. There are three frameworks that are useful to provoke to help students to promote the climate of trust, respect and optimism, independence and, extend existing knowledge shifts in students to new insight (Purkey, 1992). The purpose of this book review is to analyze the current health care system within the clinical environment regarding teaching and learning practices that have been used, the new framework can be used that could be modified in future times to create exciting and fulfilling part of clinical teaching. This textbook provides detailed information

One such example is in the West Midlands, the Local Health Authority supported 225 students by funding them onto programmes of study for advanced nursing practice, over a period of 3 years, and evaluating their progress, thereby helping to provide a set of standards and competencies for this job role (Wilson-Barnett et al. 1999, Dunn and Morgan 1998). The outcomes of this study indicated some improvements in quality of care to service users provided by the nurses.

My determination to get engaged in the course of adult nursing is due to a growing interest in the holistic approach to nursing which would fulfil my desire in caring and also obtaining a satisfying professional career. When I started college I had no clear concept of what I wanted to do as a profession but after many years working in the NHS as a nursing assistant has played a major role in developing my interest in nursing.