Clinical Project

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Introduction

This study guide is designed to assist you with the learning journey of this unit. The aim of this study guide is to provide support for your learning as it outlines what will be undertaken in each teaching session for the 8 weeks duration of this unit and enables you to adequately prepare and revise the weekly content. The study guide aims to engage you as an adult learner and therefore initiate your appreciation and comprehension of the broader learning objectives of the unit.

Learning Outcomes

After satisfactorily completing this unit students will have developed the ability to reflect in a journal on their clinical learning experience in the following areas:

- Assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating of comprehensive nursing care

- interpreting the significance of nursing observations with the view to take necessary actions to prevent further complications
- assisting in meeting the educational needs of the patients, families and significant others and colleagues by applying the principles of teaching and learning
- participating as an active member of the multidisciplinary team to assist each patient to achieve maximal independence
- developing clinical decision-making and advanced skills in the management of individuals with health conditions or disorders
- developing competence and excellence in nursing practice
- functioning as an advanced professional nurse

Assessments

Formative Assessment: A reflective journal of 1500 words

Reflective Journal

Students are required to keep an account of their clinical learning experience in a journal entry. Students are required to reflect and write an account of 3 to 4 of their experiences related to their specific area of practice. Examples of clinical experiences that student can reflect upon will include at least 3 to 4 themes as follows, but are not limited to: meeting the educational needs of the patients, families and significant others; functioning as a nurse in a multidisciplinary health care team, communication problems with colleagues/clients/clients' families; clinical issues and ethical dilemmas. Students need to identify their personal and professional parameters for the way they have handled the experience that evolved from their clinical practice.

In the journal, students will also identify their clinical objectives to achieve an understanding of an advanced level of nursing practice. These objectives should be clearly stated in the introduction of the journal.

Students will evaluate the achievement of the objectives and critically analyse and reflect on the experiences of their practice based on current literature.

Students will need to allocate time to reflect on their experiences in practice. Explore their personal thoughts, feelings and emotions, focusing on positive and negative aspects of the experience.

Clinical Learning Contract and Project

Students are required to submit a written contract of the clinical project they may wish to undertake before they set out to achieve their contractual clinical learning.

Stage One: Preparation of Clinical Learning Contract. The contract is written in consultation with the lecturer/tutor concerned.

Stage Two: Week 3 Submission of Clinical Learning Contract

Stage Three: Week 2 to 7 Discussions with Lecturer/Tutor Stage Four: Week 8 Submission of Clinical Project Learning

Learning Contract for Clinical Learning Experience
Guidelines for Contract learning
Students and Lecturer/Tutor will clearly define their roles respectively:
a. Students will maintain responsibility for the execution of their clinical learning activities including updating their progress regularly;
b. Lecturer/Tutor will act as a resource and adviser including evaluating the progress of students' achieved objectives.

The learning contract:
- This document has to be signed by student and lecturer
- The Process: Student's reflection and identification of own learning needs (clinical knowledge and skills)
- Learning objectives are based on the students' own identified learning needs. Students are required to design their learning objectives to achieve their goals in their specialty nursing clinical practice area
- Exploration of resources: students pursue to achieve learning objectives by brain storming, fact- finding, and current literature resources
- Learning activities proposed in order to achieve learning objectives
- Student to write a broad outline of the proposed clinical project to be pursued during their clinical practice experience.
- A project may cover any area of specialty nursing practice that you feel you would like to improve.

Attachment:- Clinical project.rar