Enhancing nursing education through academic clinical partnership: An integrative review

This study described the role of academic clinical partnership in strengthening nursing education. A search of ScienceDirect, Pub Med, Medline and PsychINFO on EBCSOhost and Google scholar was conducted using the following key words; academic clinical collaboration, academic clinical partnership, academic practitioner gap, college hospital partnership or/and nursing. In addition peer reviewed reports on academic clinical partnership in nursing were included in the search. Thirty three records for the period 2002 to 2016 were reviewed. Six themes emerged from the review; mutual and shared goals, evidence based practice, resource sharing and collaboration, capacity building, partnership elements and challenges of academic clinical partnership. The review highlighted that academic practice partnerships promote shared goal development for the healthcare system. The gap between theory and practice is reduced because of sharing of expertise and increased evidence based practice. Academic clinical partnership improves competences among students, improves patients’ safety and health outcomes. The study concluded that nursing education that is implemented within an academic clinical partnership becomes relevant to the needs and demands of the health system.
Source: International Journal of Nursing Sciences - Category: Nursing Source Type: research