title: Clinical skills education for graduate-entry nursing students: enhancing learning using a multimodal approach.
abstract: This paper discusses the development of a new clinical skills course at a school of nursing and midwifery in London. The course, part of a two year pre-registration programme for graduates in other disciplines, adopted an innovative multimodal approach. This comprised a range of teaching, learning and assessment strategies designed to maximise comprehensiveness, complementarity and flexibility. The background to the development is discussed and each component is described in detail. A brief summary of relevant feedback generated from anonymous student evaluations is included. This provides important insights into the perceived strengths and weakness of the module from a learner perspective. The paper concludes by identifying proposed future developments and recommending wider applications of the multimodal approach within nursing and healthcare education on an international level.
authors.affiliation: Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London, 57 Waterloo Road, London, United Kingdom. jacqueline.bloomfield@kcl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Jacqueline G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Bloomfield
authors.forename: Jocelyn C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Cornish
authors.forename: Angela M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Parry
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pegram
authors.forename: Jaqualyn S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Moore
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*