Problem
Pretend that you are a nursing instructor that is teaching NUR300 Foundation of nursing course.
You need to make decisions about clinical rotations sites for your class.
For the decisions you make, explain your rationales, supported by online resources below. Research best practices and provide the documentation.
1) General Decisions
• What is an optimal clinical setting for this foundations course?
• What is an ideal faculty/student ratio for these clinical rotations?
• What is the optimal number of clinical hours per day for a beginning student?
• How and when will you orient the students to the clinical facility?
2) The Clinical Day: For a typical clinical day, answer the following questions.
• How and when will you make your clinical assignments?
• What type of preparation will you require of the students?
• What kind of learning activities will the students engage in (consider the content and skills in the NUR 300 syllabus)? How will this change as the semester progresses?
• Will you hold a pre and post conference? If so, what will you do in each of these sessions? If you are not planning to hold pre or post conference, provide your rationale and supporting documentation.
3) The Instructor's Role in Teaching and Evaluation
• How do you envision your role as clinical instructor? What specific things will you do throughout the clinical day to guide and support the students?
• How will you keep track of student performance and experiences throughout the semester?
• How would you, as a clinical instructor for this course, utilize questioning, coaching, and feedback with the students? The Billings text covers this well. Address each one.
• What kinds of formative and summative feedback/evaluation will you use? How and when will you do this?
• What kind of written work (e.g., care plans, concept maps, case studies) will you require of the students?
• How might that change as the quarter progresses?
• Assuming you could make this decision, would you give a numerical/letter grade or a pass/fail grade for clinical?