Overview
- Offers unique, first-hand clinician, student, academic and management evaluations and experiences of Dedicated Education Units (DEUs)
- Gives practical examples of the processes, structure and resources needed to develop and run DEUs in varied contexts
- Blends pedagogy with the lived experiences of those working with DEUs in Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Sweden ?
Part of the book series: Innovation and Change in Professional Education (ICPE, volume 10)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- DEU
- Dedicated Education Unit
- action research
- clinical education partnerships
- clinical learning environment
- clinical learning strategy
- clinical nurse education
- communities of practice
- cost-effective clinical learning
- effective learning
- hands-on nursing
- higher education
- learning opportunities
- nursing education
- practice-based disciplines
- practice-based learning
- staff capacity building
- staff development
- theory to practice
- transformational change
About this book
This book provides an in-depth insight into the Dedicated Education Units (DEU) clinical learning strategy. It shows how DEUs work and explains the concept, philosophy, principles, practical implementation and first-hand experiences of this ground-breaking, global work-integrated learning strategy. It presents the benefits of DEUs and offers insight into how DEUs can provide real options for solving the increasingly complex dilemma of providing more students with more experiences of hands-on practice while reducing costs and ensuring greater numbers of work ready graduates. The book serves as a reference for nurse student education and is particularly salient for those setting up a DEU. It can be used as a springboard for work-integrated learning innovations for all practice-based disciplines.
Dedicated Education Units (DEU) provide a flexible clinical learning strategy with a focus on founding principles and adaptation to different clinical contexts rather than a concrete model for clinical learning. DEUs are essentially clinical environments in which students develop a sense of security to explore learning opportunities, knowing there are people present who will ensure they do not make intractable errors; people who will guide and support them to achieve optimal learning. Whilst developed initially for nurse education, DEUs can be adapted to other professional learning settings.
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Clinical Learning and Teaching Innovations in Nursing
Book Subtitle: Dedicated Education Units Building a Better Future
Editors: Kay Edgecombe, Margaret Bowden
Series Title: Innovation and Change in Professional Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7232-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7231-1Published: 25 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0648-1Published: 18 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7232-8Published: 11 November 2013
Series ISSN: 1572-1957
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9957
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 211
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Higher Education, Learning & Instruction, Lifelong Learning/Adult Education