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The impact of rural nursing and midwifery clinical placements from the perspective of health service staff.
- Source :
- Australian Journal of Rural Health; Apr2023, Vol. 31 Issue 2, p256-265, 10p, 3 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Objective: To explore the impact of providing nursing and midwifery student placements from the perspective of regional, rural and remote health service staff involved in hosting students. Setting: Hospital and health services across regional, rural and remote southern Queensland. Participants: Thirty‐six nursing and midwifery staff working in clinical and/or management roles who were direct clinical supervisors of students or in leadership positions with responsibility for overseeing and supporting clinical placements. Design: Semi‐structured interviews exploring the experiences and perspectives of nursing and midwifery health service staff who support student placements. Data were subject to thematic analysis. Results: Five key themes were identified as follows: (a) bringing new ideas and perspectives, (b) opportunities for development, (c) supporting the future rural workforce (d) impacts on workload and productivity and (e) strategies for balancing supervision. Conclusion: The results indicate that there are a range of perceived benefits and challenges of providing nursing and midwifery student placements within regional, rural and remote settings. The findings also indicate that there are opportunities to further support rural health services to optimise the positive impacts and mitigate the challenges of providing placements. To do so requires collaboration between health services and education providers to allocate students appropriately to health services and support health service staff. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- RURAL hospitals
MIDWIVES
HOSPITAL medical staff
RURAL health services
LABOR productivity
MIDWIFERY
ATTITUDES of medical personnel
RESEARCH methodology
HEALTH occupations students
RURAL nursing
INTERVIEWING
INTERNSHIP programs
LABOR supply
HOSPITAL nursing staff
PSYCHOSOCIAL factors
EMPLOYEES' workload
RESEARCH funding
THEMATIC analysis
NURSING students
JUDGMENT sampling
CLINICAL education
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10385282
- Volume :
- 31
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Australian Journal of Rural Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 163336808
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/ajr.12943