Assessing levels of student nurse learning in community based health placement with vulnerable families: Knowledge development for future clinical practice

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dc.contributor.authorParry, Yvonne
dc.contributor.authorHill, Pauline
dc.contributor.authorHorsfall, Susan
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-03T02:03:09Z
dc.date.available2018-08-03T02:03:09Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractBackground: Community services work with vulnerable families to assist them to link with health, education and welfare services. Community placements provide nursing students with understandings of the health impacts of social circumstances on broad population’s. Nurses provide health care for vulnerable populations so it is important for students to gain experience in dealing with various population groups in a variety of settings. Community placements can increase student confidence to provide care for all people in the acute care setting. Objectives: The research project explored the use of a community placement to assist nursing students in applying psychosocial theories to practice; determining the affect of nursing students to the community service; and if the learning achieved in the placement was applicable to their future nursing practice were also objectives of the research. Design: The mixed methods design used placement suitability focused questionnaires, and student, staff and clinical supervisor one-to-one interviews. Settings: In 2015 a community based homelessness service which provides a home visiting service approached the School of Nursing and Midwifery to provide a community placement for nursing students.. The urban homelessness service caters for 350 homeless clients per month. Participants: Eight second year nursing students and six fulltime homelessness staff, mainly social workers, participated in the surveys and interviews. Methods: Nursing students were ‘buddied’ with a social worker and visited individuals and families recently placed in emergency housing. The student nurses (8) and homelessness staff (6) were surveyed and interviewed about their knowledge, skills and perceptions about the value of community based placements. Results: Findings indicate student’s recognition of the skills to be learned in a non-acute setting are applicable to all clinical settings and enhance student knowledge and potential future care. The staff in the homelessness service espouse the enhancement provided by the expertise of the nursing students working with vulnerable populations. This paper highlights the benefits as perceived by students on often undervalued community based placements. Conclusions: It is essential that universities collaborate with industry and consumers to ensure that the undergraduate programs offer a high standard of care and address current trends in the health care industry. There is a growing need for workforce development in primary healthcare and an increased understanding about how adversity can lead to ill health.en_US
dc.identifier.citationParry, Y. K., Hill, P., & Horsfall, S. (2018). Assessing levels of student nurse learning in community based health placement with vulnerable families: Knowledge development for future clinical practice. Nurse Education in Practice, 32, 14–20.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2018.06.015en
dc.identifier.issn1471-5953
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2328/38175
dc.language.isoen
dc.oaire.license.condition.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.rights© 2018 Elsevier Ltd. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.rights.holder© 2018 Elsevier Ltd.en
dc.subjectinterdisciplinary professional placement
dc.subjectnursing assessment
dc.subjectprimary care placements
dc.subjectpsychosocial nursing care
dc.subjectvulnerable families
dc.titleAssessing levels of student nurse learning in community based health placement with vulnerable families: Knowledge development for future clinical practiceen
dc.typeArticleen
local.contributor.authorOrcidLookupHill, Pauline: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4745-0389en_US
local.contributor.authorOrcidLookupParry, Yvonne: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8030-2671en_US
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