title: Measuring students perceptions of interprofessional clinical placements: development of the Interprofessional Clinical Placement Learning Environment Inventory.
abstract: Pre-professional healthcare courses, including nursing, are increasingly focused on interprofessional learning and experimentation with clinical education in 'training wards'. This involves students from at least two disciplines who, under supervision, are responsible for patients' care. There is no consensus on how students' clinical learning experiences in this context are evaluated. We report the development and testing of the Interprofessional Clinical Placement Learning Environment Inventory (ICPLEI) in the Australian context. A question set was developed to measure student's perceptions of key variables in an interprofessional clinical learning environment: orientation, supervision, roles, learning and autonomy. An expert nursing panel rated items for a Content Validity Index of .93. Reliability was tested with 38 students. After a 2-week interprofessional ward placement nursing, medical and allied health students (n = 38) rated their learning environment highly, with median responses 4 or 5 of five (mean total 83%). The scale was reliable with a Cronbach alpha of .80 and moderate item-to-total correlations for 22/26 items. The Interprofessional Clinical Placement Learning Environment Inventory is a reliable, feasible, fast to complete tool, suitable for use with pre-registration healthcare students in this setting. Further testing of the tool's psychometric properties is recommended.
authors: Southern Clinical School, Monash University, Monash Medical Centre, 246 Clayton Road, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia.
authors: Amanda
authors: A
authors: Anderson
authors: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia. Electronic address: Robyn.Cant@monash.edu.
authors: Robyn
authors: R
authors: Cant
authors: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia.
authors: Kerry
authors: K
authors: Hood
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001315:Australia; D002982:Clinical Clerkship; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*
keywords: Content validity; Healthcare; Instrument development; Interprofessional clinical education; Students, Nursing; Undergraduate students; Validity testing