Clinical educators often struggle to provide ongoing and timely feedback to students. This article describes an innovative clinical teaching strategy, "weekly clinical synopsis" (WCS) which was piloted with four clinical groups (n = 30). The premise of the WCS was based on Hysong, Best, and Pugh's model of actionable feedback. Both quantitative and qualitative findings complemented each other. Quantitatively, three WCS items were significant. Seeing others' accomplishments did not motivate students although some thought it helped them think about broadening their clinical accomplishments. The WCS significantly helped students to focus and complete assignments on time. Due to the nature of clinical feedback, some students were uncomfortable sharing their accomplishments. Qualitatively, students shared that the WCS created a connection between student and educator, provided a structure for clinical assignment, assisted in developing clinical goals, and limited a need to discuss clinical assignments. The WCS's strengths outweighed its limitations, and should be further tested.
Faculty in a baccalaureate nursing program recognized the need to make intentional efforts to assist nursing students in integrating evidence-based knowledge in their clinical learning. This paper aims to describe ways in which evidence-based practice (EBP) was incorporated into Psychiatric-Mental Health Clinical Course (P-MHCC) assignments, and summarize students’ perceptions about their use of evidence in their clinical practice. Content analysis was performed on 64 student essays. Four themes were identified following analyses of students’ written self-reflections: clinical assignments created opportunities to incorporate EBP, assignments promoted exploration of resources and fostered development of a professional self-concept, use of evidence in mental health nursing, and students’ views on future use of EBP and barriers. Clinical assignments and educational experiences were influential in students’ utilization of EBP. Students agreed on the value of EBP in their development as nurses and as being necessary to provide the best care to patients. Three future recommendations were proposed. First, faculty facilitating clinical courses must integrate EBP as a consistent component across all clinical assignments and employ specific rubrics to help students recognize the importance of evidence in clinical practice. Second, faculty must be proactive to explore and address students’ barriers to integration of EBP in a P-MHCC. Finally, clinical faculty should consider the use of EBP in clinical assignments as one of the strategies to promote students’ professional self-concept. Future research should include systematically exploring and testing the teaching strategies used by nursing faculty at all levels of the baccalaureate program to determine their effectiveness in improving baccalaureate-nursing students’ knowledge and skills.
This column shares the best evidence-based strategies and innovative ideas on how to facilitate the learning and implementation of EBP principles and processes by clinicians as well as nursing and interprofessional students. Guidelines for submission are available at
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