Activity 3. Clinical Teaching Concerns

Three Clinical Teaching Concerns

Three Clinical Teaching Concerns

by Czarlyn Goopio -
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My concerns regarding clinical duty would be simplified into three (3) the area, the health care team and the patients. First is the area where I value the home court advantage wherein I would prefer that I would be assigned in a clinical area where I am trained. I could maximize the learning environment for the students where I could easily navigate the process and procedures and professionally relate to the members of the healthcare team. Second is the unsupportive healthcare team, it is when doctors and nurses are not comfortable when students are with them in the clinical area. When this happens, a limited space to learn will be experienced by the students and the clinical preceptors will end up explaining everything that is happening to the patient. Third is the patient and their relatives. When you are assigned to a private hospital with high profile patients, the tendency is that they will doubt everything that you will do related to their care plan. Even the simplest task of taking vital signs will be complicated all because they would think that they are treated as guinea pigs where students would have somebody to practice on. The issue would be focused on the credibility of the student nurses and the clinical preceptor and not anymore on their health concerns. When these three concerns are present in the clinical area all at once, the preceptor is definitely placed in a very stressful situation and should make a sound judgment if the area of practice is still safe for both the teacher and the learner.