Student participation at Helping Hand Aged Care: taking clinical placement to the next level.

Background: The Student Education and Participation Program that has evolved at Helping Hand Aged Care over the past decade is based on ongoing research and evaluation, and a highly innovative example of the teaching nursing home model has emerged. Methods: Drawing on that body of work and findings from the national evaluation of Australia's TRACS (Teaching and Research Aged Care Services) programme (2012-2015) an analysis of the model is presented. Results and conclusions: Lessons learned about the challenges faced, enabling factors, the benefits generated and outcomes achieved are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]