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[ article search ]  Group Work and Clinical Practicums in Nursing & Health |
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Page 1 next page >> Working within groups is an essential part of nursing education. Whatever environment nurses work in, whether for a corporation, hospital, clinic, or school, nurses are working with other people: coordinating patient care, working as a member of a team, conducting research. In any job people must learn to listen and talk to their co-workers and clients; with nursing, not doing this can seriously affect the quality of care a patient receives. Because nursing students generally do not have much choice in the classes they take in their third and fourth years, they get to know the people in their classes very well, and become very tight-knit and close. Working together, studying together, and collaborating on assignments become second nature - you have to get through demanding classes and clinical work, and it just makes sense to ask for help and accept it from your classmates. Clinical work is an important part of BSN programs. It is a chance for students to practice techniques that they learn in class on real patients, with the supervision of a clinical instructor. It is also an opportunity to begin to learn to be a professional nurse: to see how nurses work with other health professionals, and to observe the workings of a hospital or another health care setting. Groups of nursing students accompanied by a clinical instructor spend time several times a week in a specific part of the hospital. Students in urban areas usually complete their clinical work in hospitals, while those in more next page >> |
