Creating innovative models of clinical nursing education.
Although nursing care has changed significantly over the past 30 years, methods to clinically train nursing students have not. The traditional model of clinical nursing education, where a faculty member oversees a group of six to eight students on an acute care unit for a 4- to 8-hour shift, provides a haphazard approach to learning. A need exists to find innovative ways to effectively train more nursing students to better prepare them for today's health care environment. Using a change framework, seven approaches to clinical nursing education were created through academic-practice partnerships. These approaches may increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the clinical nursing education system.
College of Nursing, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-4180, USA. vniederh@utk.edu
Victoria
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Niederhauser
Mary
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Schoessler
Paula Marie
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Gubrud-Howe
Lois
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Magnussen
Estelle
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Codier
D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods*