title: A Dedicated Education Unit for Maternal-Newborn Nursing Clinical Education.
abstract: Designing a quality maternal-newborn clinical practice experience for undergraduate nursing students is often challenging. A dedicated education unit (DEU) is a partnership model of clinical education in which students partner with a designated unit-based nurse in providing nursing care within a typical patient care assignment. This article describes the experience of implementing a DEU in a junior level (third year) nursing practice course in a bachelor of science in nursing program curriculum. A DEU model is a perfect fit for maternal-newborn clinical learning experiences and provides a win-win outcome for academic and clinical partners as well as safe patient care. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nwh.2015.12.005.
authors.affiliation: State University of New York in Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. Electronic address: draines@buffalo.edu.
authors.forename: Deborah A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Raines
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001315:Australia; D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D000068104:Infant Health; D000068097:Maternal Health; D008875:Middle Aged; D017145:Models, Educational; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D011231:Preceptorship / Q000458:organization & administration*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: clinical education; dedicated education unit; maternal-newborn nursing; self-directed learning