Transforming the clinical experience for associate degree nursing students

Effective clinical nursing education is critical to prepare nursing students for their practice-based profession. However, there is a lack of consensus in the literature about the preferred model of the clinical experience. In order improve the clinical experience for nursing students, Mount Sinai Queens and LaGuardia Community College collaborated to transform the clinical experience by developing the five roles of the student nurse. These roles included clinician, leader, educator, researcher, and communicator.
Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Source Type: research