Clinical education placement benefits to workplaces

Clinical education placement benefits to workplaces

Clinical education placements can also benefit your workplace by:

• enabling assessment of students for future employment and training students to gain particular competencies
• increasing student awareness and understanding of particular areas of practice (e.g. mental health and the other target areas of ClinEdAus)
• increasing productivity and additional service provision (e.g. education sessions, in-services)
• improving staff knowledge (current theory, evidence based practice) and skills (mentoring, clinical reasoning, organisation, time management, supervision, communication, conflict resolution)
• enhancing staff collaborative teamwork within and across profession
• developing and updating resources, completing projects, undertaking research
• implementing quality assurance processes
• promoting the service within the workplace and within the community.

 This list was compiled from: James Cook University (2011); McAllister and Lincoln (2004, p.27-28); Thomas et al. (2007).

In this video, Professor Lindy McAllister explores some of the issues around the effect of clinical education placements on productivity in the workplace.