Pp126 Final
NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY in collaboration with
MALAYSIAN ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES ACADEMY, MALAYSIA
BSc (HONS) NURSING PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT
PP 0126 ASSIGNMENT
The Practice Arena as a Learning Environment
I/C NO: 870402-08-6054
N U Student ID: 1404 1918
Cohort: 37
Word count: 1994
ACTIVITY 1
The clinical practice area is the best learning environment for nurses, considering nursing is a practice-experience based profession. For nurses, learning is an important act of acquiring continuous information to polish existing knowledge of factual and procedural skill from the clinical practice area. This paper will analyze my work place as my learning environment by SCOB analysis.
As mentioned above, several criteria or strengths contribute to my learning in the clinical practice area. For newly joined nurses, an orientation program was organized in the ward. The program includes orientation to the ward routines and physical layout of the ward. The program helped to allay my anxiety and fear at the new work environment. It also afforded me a fuller image of what would be my job and obligation in the clinical practice area.
There is a discussion room in my ward, equipped with various reading materials and reference guides related to my work, such as work description file and drug dilution formulary. Computers with internet access were placed in discussion room and nurses’ counter. The computers were installed with a secured hospital information system that gives much information for learning. Besides, my computer skills were enhanced too. Furthermore, I was kept abreast and exposed to learn around the latest technology equipments used in practice in my ward.
However, to gain proper learning support, I faced some challenges as well. In my unit, the ratio of qualified mentors to the junior staffs is not satisfied. While, available senior staff nurses have lack of interest involving in junior nurses training and assessment mainly because their
MALAYSIAN ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES ACADEMY, MALAYSIA
BSc (HONS) NURSING PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT
PP 0126 ASSIGNMENT
The Practice Arena as a Learning Environment
I/C NO: 870402-08-6054
N U Student ID: 1404 1918
Cohort: 37
Word count: 1994
ACTIVITY 1
The clinical practice area is the best learning environment for nurses, considering nursing is a practice-experience based profession. For nurses, learning is an important act of acquiring continuous information to polish existing knowledge of factual and procedural skill from the clinical practice area. This paper will analyze my work place as my learning environment by SCOB analysis.
As mentioned above, several criteria or strengths contribute to my learning in the clinical practice area. For newly joined nurses, an orientation program was organized in the ward. The program includes orientation to the ward routines and physical layout of the ward. The program helped to allay my anxiety and fear at the new work environment. It also afforded me a fuller image of what would be my job and obligation in the clinical practice area.
There is a discussion room in my ward, equipped with various reading materials and reference guides related to my work, such as work description file and drug dilution formulary. Computers with internet access were placed in discussion room and nurses’ counter. The computers were installed with a secured hospital information system that gives much information for learning. Besides, my computer skills were enhanced too. Furthermore, I was kept abreast and exposed to learn around the latest technology equipments used in practice in my ward.
However, to gain proper learning support, I faced some challenges as well. In my unit, the ratio of qualified mentors to the junior staffs is not satisfied. While, available senior staff nurses have lack of interest involving in junior nurses training and assessment mainly because their
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