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Laurie Grealish

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Clinical education delivery--a collaborative, shared governance model provides a framework for planning, implementation and evaluation.

Following a scheduled review of a university pre-registration Bachelor of Nursing program, a decision was taken to introduce a new model of clinical education delivery. Principles of collaboration, as used by other university nursing programs, were applied to the change management process. As the process of change progressed, a model incorporating collaboration and shared govemance emerged to address the challenge posed by multiple stakeholders from culturally different organisations and the genuine commitment by those stakeholders to share contol in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the clinical education delivery model. Using a case study approach, this article demonstrates how the principles of collaboration and shared governance were combined to effectively manage change in the delivery of clinical education across several different organisations, aind provides an extended framework for collabortive change management involving multiple stakeholders.

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Developing a professional identity: student nurses in the workplace.

This analysis of the academic and student discourse about learning in the practicum in one Australian pre-registration Bachelor of Nursing course is part of a larger study examining the professional identity of undergraduate students in three professional groups: nursing, teaching and engineering. The focus group discussion of six student nurses reveals that the theories learned in the classroom are only partially useful preparation for the relationships required to work as a nurse in a people-laden workplace; students struggle to create meaning about practices that are not consistent with classroom theory; and students require support as they develop an identity of a nurse through the embodiment of practice work. The findings from this group support the view that the traditional approach to learning, as expressed in the documentation for the final practicum experience, where knowledge is certain, context-free, and disciplinary or subject focused, is insufficient to assist student readiness for the world of work. Recommendations emerging from this analysis are related to the university and provides some evidence for others teaching in nursing programs to reconsider their practices.

Adaptation, Psychological↗