Main description:

The Clinical Placement: An Essential Guide for Nursing Students 2e is a unique text designed to assist nursing students, and their facilitators, as they navigate their way through the clinical placement learning experience. Written in an interactive and engaging style, the authors explore complex dilemmas and concerns, and suggest how potential problems can be prevented or resolved. The aim is for students to achieve quality clinical placement which is crucial to the development of competent and confident practitioners.

The new edition builds on the strengths of the text with an increased focus on New Zealand health to provide a balanced ANZ approach. The text incorporates recent changes to Clinical practice with regard to risk management, improved communication and hand over techniques.There is a new focus on Indigenous health, including a discussion on cultural issues for indigenous populations and a general discussion on how to handle cultural sensitivities whilst working on the ward.

Revised in accordance with the ANMC updated National Competency standards for national registration, The Clinical Placement: An Essential Guide for Nursing Students 2e offers a practical support mechanism for nursing students as well as Registered Nurses re-entering clinical environments.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The rules of engagement

1.1 Know the lie of the land

1.2 The clinical placement-what it is and why it matters

1.3 Person-centred care

1.4 Models of care

1.5 Competent practice

1.6 Working within your scope of practice

1.7 Who shall I turn to?

1.8 Working hard-but not too hard

1.9 First impressions last

1.10 The generation gap

1.11 The roles and functions of the interdisciplinary healthcare team

Reflective thinking activities

References

Chapter 2 Great expectations

2.1 Patients' expectations

2.2 Clinicians' expectations

2.3 Professional expectations

2.4 Legal requirements

2.5 Don't apologise for being a student

2.6 Speak up, speak out

2.7 Exercise your rights

2.8 You're not the boss of me (oh really?)

2.9 Don't take everything personally

2.10 Compliance and compromise

2.11 Being naive

Reflective thinking activities

References

Chapter 3 How you act

3.1 Cultural safety

3.2 Teamwork

3.3 Managing conflict

3.4 Dealing with horizontal violence

3.5 Dealing with sexual harassment

3.6 Taking care of yourself

3.7 Patient advocacy

3.8 Best practice

3.9 Practice principles

3.10 Clinical governance

3.11 Patient safety

3.12 Clinical learning objectives

3.13 Student assessment

3.14 Giving and receiving gifts

3.15 Visitors during clinical placements

3.16 Using the company supplies

3.17 Punctuality and reliability

3.18 Putting work ahead of your studies

3.19 Clinical placements at distant locations

Reflective thinking activities

References

Chapter 4 How you think and feel

4.1 Caring

4.2 Reflective practice

4.3 Reality check and seeking feedback

4.4 Emotional Intelligence

4.5 Critical thinking and critical reasoning

4.6 Ethical dilemmas in nursing

4.7 Crossing over the line

4.8 Getting the support you need

Reflective thinking activities

References

Chapter 5 How you communicate

5.1 What is a nurse?

5.2 Therapeutic communication

5.3 Welcome to Australia or New Zealand

5.4 Using professional language

5.5 Documentation and legal issues

5.6 Information and communication technology (ICT) in healthcare and in education

5.7 Patient handover

5.8 Your voice in the clinical environment

5.9 Telephones and the internet

5.10 Self-disclosure

5.11 Providing effective feedback

Reflective thinking activities

References

Chapter 6 Insights from clinical experts

6.1 Aviation nursing Fiona McDermid, Amanda Ferguson

6.2 Community health nursing Cheryle Morley, Bronwyn Warne

6.3 Day surgery nursing Alison Anderson

6.4 Developmental disability nursing Kristen Wiltshire, Bill Learmouth

6.5 Drug and alcohol nursing Richard Clancy

6.6 Emergency nursing Leanne Egan

6.7 General practice nursing Elizabeth J Halcomb

6.8 Indigenous health nursing Vicki Bradford

6.9 Intensive care nursing Paula McMullen

6.10 International nursing Kerry Reid-Searl

6.11 Justice health nursing Annette Griffin

6.12 Medical nursing Sandy Eager

6.13 Mental health nursing Teresa Stone

6.14 Midwifery Lyn Ebert

6.15 Nephrology nursing Peter Sinclair

6.16 Occupational health nursing Jennifer Anastasia

6.17 Older person nursing Helen Bellchambers

6.18 Paediatric Nursing Elizabeth Newham

6.19 Palliative care nursing Amanda Johnson

6.20 Perioperative nursing Menna Davies

6.21 Primary health care nursing Judy Yarwood, Jill Clendon

6.22 Private hospital nursing Deánne Portelli, Lynette Saul, Margaret Mason

6.24 Rural and remote nursing Maryanne Hethorn

6.25 Surgical nursing Dee McGuire

Glossary

Index