Module 6 Assignment: Academic Clinical Nurse Educator and the Clinical Experience.
Module 6 Assignment: Academic Clinical Nurse Educator and the Clinical Experience.
To prepare:
- Review the National League for Nursing (NLN) site and consider the clinical educator competencies and how they apply to the clinical setting.
- Review Chapter 5 in Legal Aspects of Nursing Professional Development Practice and consider the legal and ethical responsibilities of the Academic Clinical Nurse Educator with respect to working with a healthcare institution.
- On Day 1 for this week, your instructor will assign you a Student Nurse Profile to complete this Module Assignment. See the “Student Nurse Profiles and List of Specialty Areas†document found in the Resources for this week. Review the Student Nurse Profile assigned to you. Note: Please see the “Course Announcements†section of the classroom for your Student Nurse Profile assignment.
- Review the List of Specialty Areas found in this week’s Resources and consider the different specialty areas or units. Once you review the List of Specialty Areas, select a specialty area to match your assigned Student Nurse Profile by developing a patient profile for a patient that you might encounter on this unit.
- Create a specific objective for managing care for the patient.
Assignment (3–4 pages not including title and reference pages)
Part 1: The Student Nurse’s Assigned Patient
- Describe the objective you developed for your student nurse as he/she manages care for the patient on the unit of the specialty area you selected. Also describe a patient profile for the patient under consideration.
- Describe activities that will support your designated student nurse in developing their skills to meet the objective that you developed for the clinical experience and specialty area you selected. Be specific.
- Explain how these activities will be beneficial in supporting the objective you developed.
- Explain which core competencies of the Clinical Nurse Educator are addressed through the patient assignment and activities and why. Be specific.
- Explain the legal and ethical issues pertaining to working as a clinical nurse educator in the practice partner’s clinical environment.
Part 2: Post-Conference/De-Brief Session
Explain how you would discuss the following points with your student nurse during a post-conference/debrief session.
- Objective(s) of the clinical experience.
- How the specific patient assignment and students’ activities facilitated meeting the objective(s).
- Application of theory to practice.
- Use of interpersonal communication to establish clinical relationships.
- Legal and ethical issues pertaining to working as a nursing student in a clinical environment.
