The Art of Clinical Supervision Program: Its Impact on Nurses Attitudes Towards Nursing Students.

Conclusions: Health service managers are encouraged to evaluate their staffs' knowledge and attitude towards students with findings used to facilitate a positive learning culture. Research findings of the ACS resulted in the programme being contextualised to meet an interprofessional audience, and as of December 2019 over 3,500 nurses, midwives, allied health and medical practitioners had attended the programme.Impact Statement: The Art of Clinical SupervisionThe purpose of the research was to develop, implement and review a new education programme that could support the development of clinical supervision knowledge and attitude to support student nurse learning. This occurred in an environment of increased student numbers as a strategy to correct a predicted looming workforce shortage.The study findings determined that the program improved both participant knowledge about how to provide effective clinical supervision (teaching) in the clinical environment, and improved staff attitudes towards students and their place as a learner in the clinical areas.The type of impact was therefore within the domain of quality by improving student learning through effective education strategy.As a result of the doctoral research, involving 200 participants, a Federal Government grant of approx. $500,000 was received to facilitate the training of additional educators to provide the programme across the state of Western Australia. This grant was a partnership between the programme author (re...
Source: Contemporary Nurse - Category: Nursing Tags: Contemp Nurse Source Type: research