Induction in a Healthcare Organization

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Activity A: Induction:
Write an account of where you work and how a learner is inducted into your
placement area. Include the learning opportunities you can identify for them. (500
words maximum)
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• What kind of placement do you work in?
I work as a band 7 Review Nurse Manager at a Continuing Healthcare Team which
is a part of Clinical Commissioning Group NHS. My role is to guide students and
other nurses to deliver high quality of services to patients. However, it is my duty to
ensure that adequate and updated guidelines as well as policies are developed in
my organisation. It is necessary to support team members by motivating and
encouraging them to reach target objectives in effective manner. It is required make
sure that adequate training provision for my team members should be considered
for their continuous professional development which facilitates to enhance their
skills and knowledge.

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• What learners do you get? (Profession? Year of student programme?)
I get band 6 nurses as well as first and second year students who are pursuing
nursing courses to provide knowledge for increasing their clinical abilities. As a band
7 Review Nurse Manager, I need to provide knowledge about clinical skills and
essential information about nursing. Band 6 nurses are those who are the first
clinical contact of service users in a healthcare organisation. I have to deliver
appropriate clinical practices skills and knowledge which helps students to become
able to conduct procedure with confidence in correct way. Thus, as an educator I
need to provide them skills of effective communication and strategies to identify
patient problems as they are the first individuals who get to contact them.
• How do you welcome and induct them on their first day?
In order to welcome and induct my trainees I first send them a welcome mail and
appreciate my learners for choosing to learn. I provide them overall information
about how training program is going to be conduct. After that I ask their individual
interest areas in my training program. As a trainer, it is my responsibility to provide
them all materials and resources on the very first day of their joining andgive
appropriate advice on useful research and reading.
• What learning opportunities are there for learners? (Give up to five
examples.)
As a learning opportunity, band 6 nurses and nursing students need to develop a
collaborative partnership with mentor in order to get most out of placement. As it will
help them to adapt with the clinical environment, to develop an intuitive practice and
to be a professionally socialised in the role of a qualified nurse and this help them to
participate independently and to contribute within the team (Mirowsky, 2017).

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• Who else might the learner work with (roles in your professional team and
senior / expert staff)?
Apart from a band 7 nurse, learners will get to work with other stakeholders of the
healthcare organisation. Such as team leader, supervisors, commissioners and
healthcare professionals on other bands such as band 8 community matrons.
• How do you ensure that the learner is settled in and that learning is taking
place?
In order to ensure that learners are settled I would first find out if they are
taking interest in the training program or not. Other than this, a regular
monitoring of learners will be done in order to know that learning is taking place
in the session (Hojat, 2016). I will try to ask questions and take regular
feedbacks with the trainees in midsession and from other professionals
involved in their placement. It will helps to evaluate effectiveness of my
learning styles which is beneficial for students to become more efficient and
knowledge in order to gain appropriate placement.
ActivityB: Facilitating Learning:
Critically analyse how you have planned and facilitated learning for a learner or a
group of learners to enhance their learning. Analyse learning theories covered in the
content of the module within this activity. (1000 words maximum)
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Clinical facilitation is the most essential aspect for a training program. Planning for
providing knowledge is important because it help educators to ensure that daily
tasks and activities that are going in the learning process. It includes the criterion of
providing students and nurses with adequate amount of long-term progress towards
the objective outlined within sequence and scope (Reeves and et.al., 2016). In
order to provide crucial knowledge of clinical practices and effective skills to band 6
nurses and nursing students it is very important to develop a plan and strategies to
facilitate learning of learners. However, it is important to make overall session
effective and beneficial for nurses and students.
There are different types of learning and teaching theories are available which can
be used in practices. It includes of use of one theory or combination of two in order
to make learning more effective as well as efficient. However, some of these
theories are explained here.
Behaviourism: This can be described as an effective theory of learning which
facilitate to assume that a leaner is necessarily passive and they can be shaped
with the help of positive or negative reinforcement. The theory of behaviourism is
responsible for defining learning as change in behaviour in different contexts for
make them capable to learn different concepts of life.
Cognitivism: This theory has concept of remain focussed on way of thinking and
problem solving on using mind. It includes to criterion the new knowledge can be up
on the basis of prior knowledge in which active participation of learners required to
learn about specific concept or idea. Meanwhile, it has been analysed that
cognitivism theory utilise metaphor of mind as computer to gain information which