Effective academic-practice partnership models in nursing students' clinical placement: A systematic literature review

Implementing dedicated education units in 6 European undergraduate nursing and midwifery students clinical placements

“…We observed in the "Characteristics of Individuals" domain that the presence of positive perceptions of team involvement and willingness to collaborate were more likely to facilitate change at the time of implementing the DEU. Professionals' perception of gratifying experience in the DEU was reported in several studies [7][8][9] and the impact on patient care and the health system of nurses' confidence and satisfaction with their skills, knowledge and teaching role is shown [29]. As in the study by Glynn et al [30], participants stated that effective communication between educational and healthcare organizations is necessary to provide nurses with educational role skills, role expectations and clarification.…”

“…Organizations that support safety and quality in health care encourage DEU replication in numerous sites due to the reported benefits of the DEU for educational and healthcare organizations. Additionally, the availability of several protocols, guidelines and the literature on the DEU reduced implementation complexity, facilitated the proposed strategy and its adaptation to dissimilar sites [7][8][9][10][11]19]. Our results are comparable with those which show that intervention adaptability seems to be guaranteed when educational-service collaboration is based on trust, respect and mutually beneficial goals: effective use of existing resources, support for professional improvement, nursing workforce recruitment and retention, and awareness of the teaching/learning process [20,21].…”

“…It also emphasizes the role of the faculty nurse in ensuring student knowledge acquisition and supporting the clinical nurses' teaching role. In addition, the collaboration of educational and health institutions allows the optimization of training resources, enhances theory and practice integration, facilitates the student' acquisition of competencies, and responds to professionals' needs to provide appropriate nurse training [7][8][9][10][11]. Successful students and nurses' outcomes in the DEU model are well documented [7][8][9].…”

“…Then, in 2003, the University of Portland adapted the Australian DEU in an effort to improve the clinical learning environment and address a shortage of nurses. Since 2003, several educational and healthcare organizations in Australia, New Zealand, the United States of America and Europe have successfully implemented DEU units [7,8,10]. The essencial elements of DEU [11] are as follows:…”

“…6 Ege University Faculty of Nursing Internal Medicine Nursing, Izmir, Turkey. 7 Center of Expertise Health Innovation at UC Leuven-Limburg, Leuven, Belgium.…”