The Clinical Placement: An Essential Guide for Nursing Students

The Clinical Placement: An Essential Guide for Nursing Students is a unique survival tool designed to assist nursing students, and their facilitators, as they navigate their way through the clinical learning journey. Written in an interactive and engaging style, the authors utilise real-world ‘tales’ and ‘coaching tips’ to explore complex dilemmas and concerns, and suggest how potential problems can be prevented or resolved. Contemporary workplace concepts such as patient-centered care and advocacy, clinical governance, and codes of conduct are explored; interpersonal issues such as confidentiality, assertiveness and team work are discussed; and practical skills that address ‘how you think, act, feel and communicate’ are all directed towards developing confident, competent and professional nurses. A compilation of expert ‘insights’ that explore the opportunities, challenges and rewards across a diverse range of specialty areas provides a fitting and inspiring finale to this essential resource for nursing students.

• Stories and scenarios relate theory to the reality of practice
• ‘Something to think about' boxes provide valuable words of advice
• ‘Reflective thinking activities' encourage self-assessment and experiential learning

Tracy Levett-Jones is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Technology Sydney. She is a world-leading nursing researcher who leads the Planetary Health Collaborative and Empathy Initiative research group.

Tracy’s program of research includes planetary health, empathy and patient safety. She has written ten books and over 300 journal articles. Tracy has been the recipient of multiple teaching and research awards and over seven million dollars of research funding. She continues to lead major research and education projects and her collaborations with organisations such as Diabetes Australia and the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia demonstrate her commitment to community engagement and industry partnerships.