Rebecca McDiarmid and Donna Burkett
Otago Polytechnic School of Nursing, Dunedin, New Zealand
Title: Navigating and Nurturing the Student Nurse Journey towards Clinical Excellence
Biography
Biography: Rebecca McDiarmid and Donna Burkett
Abstract
The unique landscape of New Zealand healthcare settings requires new graduate nurses to be responsive to the variation in complexities of care and health workforce dynamics. To prepare new graduate nurses for this evolving landscape and equip nurses with the skills to sustain practice into the future, the presenters have successfully implementated a peer clinical coaching programme within undergraduate nursing curriculum in New Zealand. The clinical coaching programme provided a strategic connection of learners with enhanced opportunities to embed professional competencies required by Nursing Council of New Zealand.
Clinical coaching was an initiative developed in response to challenges learners had with the ability to articulate and demonstrate aspects of clinical competency, mainly delegation and direction of care. The teaching and learning process focuses on creating a community of learning by connecting year three to year one learners. Once connected, the process of clinical coaching occurs, simulating collegial relationships based on concepts of enhanced communication, collegial attributes, compentency development in a culture of safe learning. Clinical coaching provides the opportunity for learners to translate competency into practice, develop capacity for leadership awareness and ultimately enhance patient health outcomes.
The learner response to clinical coaching has been extremely positive and prompted the presenters to formally caputure the learner voice in order to share and publish the experience. Results from this research highlight the learners increased confidence in their own ability to articulate readiness for practice through the ability to demonstrate clincial competency for the transition in expectations and responsibilities with the Registered Nurse role.
Since the inital implementation of clinical coaching the presenters have continued to grow and develop the experience, which has lead to the development of the CORE teaching and learning model. This model will be explored in detail throughout the presentation. The audience will appreciate the passion and delivery in which the presenters articulate the desire to create teaching and learning opportunities to navigate clinical excellence.