Case Study Virtual placement pathway for Nursing students
Background
East Cheshire NHS Trust in partnership with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is developing a virtual clinical placement pathway that will form part of a clinical hub placement. There are seven areas of practice: Medicine, Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, Community, Mental Health & Learning Disability. The Learning and Knowledge Hub is an intuitive platform that will host a range of practice-based learning activities that will be mapped against the learner’s current programme of study and count towards practice hours. The learner’s objectives and competencies will be be aligned to their stage of learning and mapped against the Practice Assessment Document (PAD) within each pathway. Our aim is to centre the learning opportunity based upon the “lived experience”. Each pathway will align to a family or our virtual care community, which will give the learner the opportunity to explore different elements of health and social care, care pathways and the patient journey and experience. Patient stories, video clips and live simulation will be embedded within the virtual experience. Assessors and supervisors will have administration rights to oversee their learner ’ s virtual placement experience. Each learner will achieve certification at the end of their virtual placement which will contribute towards their formative or summative assessment.
For further information contact: Sonia.meadows@nhs.net
Key Aims
• To increase student Nursing capacity using technology enhanced learning opportunities
• Enhance the quality of learning for all healthcare learner’s health professional students
Resources
This is an interactive learning tool that enables the learner to engage with a Lived Experience Connector, their peers, assessors/ supervisors, using chat and break out rooms, it supports live teaching sessions and simulation, has conferencing facilities, and video streaming.
Behind each pathway will be uploaded resources, including reading materials, videos links/clips and workbooks, that will be used to facilitate learning in line with the learner’s programme of study.
The funding for this project has been used to purchase Flipping book, animator and whiteboard to support the development of the workbook material. A Band 6 Practice Education Facilitator (PEF) will be appointed to facilitate and operationalise the virtual learning platform.
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