Select a specialty area to match your assigned Student Nurse Profile by developing a patient profile for a patient that you might encounter on this unit.
Create a specific objective for managing care for the patient.
Student Nurse Profile: Student Nurse in a medical-surgical unit (1st-year medical-surgical student) where the possibility of surgery exists for the patient
Specialty Area: Medical-Surgical
PART 1: The Student Nurse’s Assigned Patient
Describe the objective you developed for your student nurse as he/she manages care for the patient on the unit of the specialty area you selected. Also describe a patient profile for the patient under consideration.
Describe activities that will support your designated student nurse in developing their skills to meet the objective that you developed for the clinical experience and specialty area you selected. Be specific.
Explain how these activities will be beneficial in supporting the objective you developed.
Explain which core competencies of the Clinical Nurse Educator are addressed through the patient assignment and activities and why. Be specific.
Explain the legal and ethical issues pertaining to working as a clinical nurse educator in the practice partner’s clinical environment.
PART 2: Post-Conference/De-Brief Session
Explain how you would discuss the following points with your student nurse during a post-conference/debrief session.
Objective(s) of the clinical experience.
How the specific patient assignment and students’ activities facilitated meeting the objective(s).
Application of theory to practice.
Use of interpersonal communication to establish clinical relationships.
Legal and ethical issues pertaining to working as a nursing student in a clinical environment.
