Clinical Teaching for Professional Development: Factors Enabling Nurses to Learn in Practice Setting

This report covers the factors that enable nurses to undergo clinical practices and learn in the practice setting. It helps in analysing all the situations deeply so that action plans could be developed accordingly. The report discusses critical analyses on all the factors that enable nurses to learn in practise setting. Some of the drawbacks that are faced by nurses in the clinical practises are also discussed.

Clinical
Teaching For
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Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................1
Discussion..............................................................................................................................................1
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
The learning environment for the clinical work context can be acute or sub-acute.
Learning continuously and practising in health care environment involves adapting to
changes and underpinning the values so that better care could be provided. This report covers
the factors that enabled nurses to undergo clinical practices. It helps in analysing all the
situations deeply so that action plans could be developed accordingly. The learning style that
is used is integration into the practices that help them to improve the behaviour towards
nurse’s practises but on the other hand they can have negative impact as they learn under
supervision. It is beneficial as it promotes them to learn about new health concerns and
understand how to resolve risk. This report covers detail critical analyses on all the factors
that enable nurses to learn in practise setting. Some of the drawbacks that are faced by nurses
in the clinical practises are also discussed. The main motive that enables nurses to practise in
clinical setting is getting experience and dealing with all the cases practically – please change
this sentence, it is weak and irrelevant.
Discussion
Critical Analyses: The factors that enable nurses to learn in the practice setting as they
respond to the needs and challenges of a rapidly changing health care environment
The health profession and environment is changing day by day, thus it has become important
for the nurses to learn and respond to new practises with time. The factors that have helped
nurses to respond to the challenges easily are the readiness to adapt to the changes easily.
Also, the uniqueness of knowledge and skills help nurses to learn about new tactics and
strategies that would help them to meet the contemporary health needs (Hewitt,

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.Chreim & Forster, 2017). It proves to be beneficial for nurses to continue their learning as it
increases their workforce capacity. It is beneficial as nurses are continuously updated to the
latest technology so that they understand all the applications and experiences. It can also be
seen as a negative factor as having knowledge about everything is not better than having a
detailed knowledge about one profession. For taking part in clinical practice, nurses should
be an expert in a particular area rather than focusing in all the areas.
It is analysed that having a practical knowledge is better in the nursing profession than
just having a theoretical knowledge. Thus, it can be stated that practising the setting and
operations can help nurses to gain knowledge in the health care environment (Numminen,
Ruoppa, Leino‐Kilpi, Isoaho, Hupli & Meretoja, 2016). As everyday they need to deal with
new cases this would help them to expand their decision making. The factor that enables
nurses to continue their learning practises is clinical lecture that promote them to support
patients by facilitating them with constructive feedback and clinical performance (Hegney et.
al, 2014).
The factors that help nurses to learn about challenges is observation or by taking part
in on-board training (Laschinger, Nosko, Wilk & Finegan, 2014). The health care
environment is changing with time as there are new innovations about technologies and new
diseases are coming up every day. Thus, it is necessary for the nurses to be aware about all
the rapid changes. On the other hand this can act as a shortcoming, by allowing the nurses to
take part in challenging situations. To deal with the new competencies it is necessary that
they have complex and critical knowledge about the illness (Laschinger, Nosko, Wilk &
Finegan, 2014). As health care department is a sensitive area; as life of a person is dependent
on the decision taking by the nurse (Numminen, Ruoppa, Leino‐Kilpi, Isoaho, Hupli &
Meretoja, 2016). As they, are not experienced and their decisions can be harmful for someone

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life. It is suggested that they should learn and reinforce their knowledge so that they could
take better decisions. This make them to synthesizes on all the nursing theories and help them
to bring theoretical knowledge into practical implementation.
By the discussion was found that, the nurses are the direct caregivers that offer the
quality care to the patient. The performance of offering care can be enhanced if they keep on
learning and practising continuously as experience in health care profession reduce the risk of
taking wrong decisions. The advancement in the health care environment is changing rapidly
that it is important that nurses respond efficiently of the patients need. The factors that help
nurses to learn about new things are immediate access to all the critical information so that
patient’s outcome could be improved (Marañón, & Pera, 2015). Thus, it is recommended that
nurses should practise and learn about all the concerns in the training section rather than
practising directly. As they play a central role in changing the health care of a person (Xiao,
Willis & Jeffers, 2014). The barriers that exist due to expanding the knowledge and practises
in the nurses are they should have a prior experience so that they can improve the practices. It
is really important to transform the learning practises as it improves the overall care. The
other factor is technologies that are evolving in the hospital by offering improved way to
access the patients and offer care in an appropriate manner (Moorhead, Johnson, Maas &
Swanson, 2016). The competence is based on the skill and knowledge they acquire. The
factors that help them in acquiring the knowledge are the combination of theoretical and
practical knowledge that they gain from experience (Xiao, Willis & Jeffers, 2014). The
theoretical part of knowledge is not enough as nurses require practical training so that they
can perform based on the profession. The clinical area of nursing helps nurses to learn in a
complex environment so that they can convert their practical knowledge. It is also addressed
that a positive learning environment support nurses to improve the way they operate in the
clinical setting. On the other hand, poor learning can lead to an adverse effect in the health

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care department (Birks, 2017). The lack of advanced knowledge in the medical field can be
dangerous. Thus, all these challenges can be improved by enhancing the quality of learning
and promotion. The factors that promote nurses to learn in the practice setting are it offers
them a platform so that they can apply knowledge into practise. The clinical setting is seen as
an essential part in the health care department as it allows nurses to develop the quality
experience. It allows the nurses to observe all the critical cases and also allow them to work
in an unpredictable environment. The factors that will be improved due to clinical practise are
quality of relation with staff and other nurses (Hegney, et. al, 2014). However, it will be a
positive learning environment but it may also affect the individual skills. The clinical
placement of a nurse can also be a poor performance as some nurse is not able to handle the
increased workload. The lack of training skills can be dangerous but working under
supervision will help them to enhance their knowledge. Clinical experience help nurses to get
better high opportunities as they offer quality care initiatives (Maillet, Mathieu & Sicotte,
2015). But in some cases nurses leave the idea of higher studies and get stuck at clinical
practises only. Apart, from all the side effects it supports nurses to implement their
knowledge gained from learning into the real world scenario.
While entering to some professional clinical experience the past practices will help
them in becoming more responsible. On the other hand, the negative experience can impact
the learning outcome of a nurse (Who , 2017). It offers the opportunities to the nurses so that
they can undertake future clinical practises. The nursing practices also help them to get better
opportunities and it act as a source of motivation that they get while working. They can figure
out the areas in which they are lacking and thus improvement could be done in that particular
area (Butcher, Bulechek, Dochterman & Wagner, 2018). The main aim of clinical practices
is to allow nurses to understand the principals of clinical settings.

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Conclusion
Thus it can be concluded that there are various factors that help nurses to continue
their learning practice setting as they respond to the needs and challenges of a rapidly
changing health care environment. The clinical learning helps them to experience quality
learning so that they can future use their experience in facilitating patients care. On the other
hand, the negative experience at the placement service can have adverse effect as lack of
knowledge can result in poor outcome. The main motive of clinical practices is to enable
nurses to understand the basic principal of clinical settings. The health care environment is
changing rapidly thus practising and training session support nurses to offer better health care
support. In some case, this can lead to hazardous situation as nurses are not experienced and
their decision can be harmful on someone’s life. It helps in reinforcing their knowledge so
that better decisions could be taken.

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