The impact of rural nursing and midwifery clinical placements from the perspective of health service staff

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Walker, Clara and Forbes, Roma. 2023. "The impact of rural nursing and midwifery clinical placements from the perspective of health service staff." Australian Journal of Rural Health. 31 (2), pp. 256-265. https://doi.org/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajr.12943
Article Title

The impact of rural nursing and midwifery clinical placements from the perspective of health service staff

ERA Journal ID13436
Article CategoryArticle
AuthorsWalker, Clara and Forbes, Roma
Journal TitleAustralian Journal of Rural Health
Journal Citation31 (2), pp. 256-265
Number of Pages10
Year2023
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons
ISSN1038-5282
1440-1584
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajr.12943
Web Address (URL)https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajr.12943
Abstract

Objective
To explore the impact of providing nursing and midwifery student placements from the perspective of regional, rural and remote health service staff involved in hosting students.

Setting
Hospital and health services across regional, rural and remote southern Queensland.

Participants
Thirty-six nursing and midwifery staff working in clinical and/or management roles who were direct clinical supervisors of students or in leadership positions with responsibility for overseeing and supporting clinical placements.

Design
Semi-structured interviews exploring the experiences and perspectives of nursing and midwifery health service staff who support student placements. Data were subject to thematic analysis.

Results
Five key themes were identified as follows: (a) bringing new ideas and perspectives, (b) opportunities for development, (c) supporting the future rural workforce (d) impacts on workload and productivity and (e) strategies for balancing supervision.

Conclusion
The results indicate that there are a range of perceived benefits and challenges of providing nursing and midwifery student placements within regional, rural and remote settings. The findings also indicate that there are opportunities to further support rural health services to optimise the positive impacts and mitigate the challenges of providing placements. To do so requires collaboration between health services and education providers to allocate students appropriately to health services and support health service staff.

Keywordsclinical education; health workforce; nursing and midwifery; clinical placement; rural health
ANZSRC Field of Research 20204203. Health services and systems
Byline AffiliationsCentre for Health Research (Research)
University of Queensland
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