Preparing for and Managing Clinical Placements

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When deciding to offer student placements, there are a variety of factors that supervisors need to consider.  Some of these include:

• The motivation for offering a placement:
  • Benefits of offering clinical education placements
  • The importance of quality clinical education placements
• The ability to facilitate student learning:
  • Placement models and approaches to supervision
  • Facilitating learning
  • Facilitating clinical decision making
• The capacity to provide a suitable placement environment:
  • Creating a student placement opportunity
  • First time student supervisors
  • Workload management tips for supervisors
  • Pre-placement planning
  • Orientation of the student
  • Managing expectations, professional boundaries and ethical practice
  • During the placement
  • Evaluating the placement experience

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