How tomotivate students in clinical setting
I teach clinicals for RN. Some of the students that are strong academicaly are sneaking around and do the minimal work to pass the clinicals. Hw can I make them stop it and make them give good nursing care for their patient?
Hi Kari,
It sounds like you are very thorough in your expectations as well as grading. Your institution covers all bases by doing both in house and off-site clinical.
Patricia
We offer clinical experience as well-except for veterinary medicine. We do both in house clinicals and also an externship. Our in house clinical "expectations' are typed out clear from A to Z and everything in between. We grade them daily on certain aspects of the clinical-but they do not know what aspect (we choose) that way they can not 'sneak' or 'skip' that way they are unsure what we are grading them on. It is graded on all, half, or none.
On our externship, we hand out the passing criteria to the students and to the 'hospital' where they are working. We receive weekly "check points" from the office manager, and we also go to the hospital in person to do a random 'shadow' visit (to check up on them)
What type of sneaking are they doing? Are they off campus to perform the clinical tasks?
