- Title
- Exploring interprofessional clinical placements to understand perceptions and outcomes for pre-registration healthcare students
- Creator
- Hood, Kerry
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Thesis; PhD
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/180549
- Identifier
- vital:15777
- Abstract
- Background There is an ongoing need for preregistration healthcare students to acquire skills that equip them to collaborate with others for patient-centred care and outcomes. Traditional models of university learning and clinical placement seldom offer students the opportunities to experience interprofessional learning or to ‘test the waters’ of collaborative practice. Aims A range of interprofessional learning opportunities were offered to preregistration healthcare students while on clinical placement in a large metropolitan health service. This research evaluated interprofessional learning opportunities for preregistration healthcare students as preparation for collaborative practice. It also explored the perceived value for student learning of these activities and examined the challenges and opportunities accompanying the design and implementation of the student-led beds model. Methods A mixed methods approach was undertaken. In particular, there was a focus on the experiences of students in an immersive two-week interprofessional placement in which interprofessional student teams worked together to lead the care of inpatients in a variety of clinical settings. This experience enabled students to experience authentic collaborative practice in a real clinical setting. The Theory of Planned Behaviour was used to retrospectively evaluate the findings presented in the published papers. Outcomes This research reflects a journey of student experience of clinical interprofessional learning (IPL), from understanding attitudes to IPL to perceptions of clinical workshops and culminating in the experience of an immersive clinical placement. Outcomes included positive learning experiences and a sense of clarity of professional and interprofessional identity. The model of placement was informed by the international literature, most notably the ‘student-led bed’ model pioneered at Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Despite solid evidence of the usefulness and efficacy of this model, it is yet to be embedded in clinical environments across the world. This research demonstrated that the model can be successfully implemented in a metropolitan health service and may contribute to real behavioural change of our future health professionals; Doctor of Philosophy
- Publisher
- Federation University Australia
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Restricted access by author to Chapter 7 (pages 114-135)
- Subject
- Interprofessional; Healthcare; Collaborative; Student
- Full Text
- Thesis Supervisor
- Cross, Wendy
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