Issues and innovations
This report offers recommendations for ensuring Bachelor of Nursing students gain appropriate exposure to Primary Health Care and community-based nursing experiences during their training.
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Background:
A project, completed in 2012, to provide an overview of current primary health care (PHC) clinical placements throughout New Zealand and identify barriers to, and opportunities for, providing PHC placements.
Providing quality clinical placements for health care students is acknowledged as a major challenge for tertiary institutions. However, one particular issue facing the institutions is to reflect the shift in healthcare delivery from hospital to community-based care settings, by providing clinical placements in primary health care settings.
A collaboration of Nurse Maude Association, New Zealand Institute of Community Heath Care and Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology.
Report prepared by Karen Betony, Judy Yarwood, Chris Hendry and Philippa Seaton.
Co-funded by the Ako Aotearoa Regional Hub Project Fund (RHPF)