Designing a New Model for Clinical Education

Abstract

To keep pace with the ever-changing health care delivery system, it is important to transform the way future nurses are educated, both in classroom and in clinical settings, to care for people along the life and care continuum, not only in acute-care settings. The purpose of this article is to describe a new approach to educating baccalaureate nursing students using immersion practicums that expose students to population health, transitions of care, care coordination, and the multiple roles a nurse engages in along the continuum. The curriculum includes 5 immersions, each with a specific life and care continuum focus to develop anticipatory thinkers.

Clinical Education in Nursing: Current Practices and Trends

“…A nursing program in the United States reported the use of immersion models to transform clinical teaching across the curriculum. They used five different experiences that enabled students to gain clinical exposure across the care continuum (Shaffer et al 2018). Although the authors only report their experiences for this single site study, it appears that these models are gaining interest and being adopted by more nursing programs.…”

“…To provide more integrated clinical experiences for students, in one school of nursing in the United States, faculty redesigned their clinical practicum to focus on care coordination, transitions of care, primary care, community and population care, advocacy, social justice, person-centered care, and interprofessional collaboration (Shaffer et al 2018). In each practicum, students have experiences in both acute care and community settings.…”

Authentic Learning: A Concept Analysis

“…Nursing serves communities by providing safe, holistic, individualised therapeutic and evidence-based care through critical thinking, rational decision making and creative problem solving (Shaffer, Swan, & Bouchaud, 2018). In order to realise the science and art of nursing, nurse educators must fully engage learners in this approach by designing AL tasks and authentic assessments that will expose learners to real-life contexts.…”

Nursing Students' Home Care Learning Delivered in an Innovative 360-Degree Immersion Experience

“…ealth care delivery is shifting away from acute care settings to community-based settings. 1 Patients are being discharged from acute care hospital settings to home quickly with continuing illness management needs. The goal for patients on discharge is to maintain their disease process and promote wellness.…”