HCTW News: New approach to learning hopes to ease nursing shortages
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, January 16, 2009
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The University of Buffalo (NY) School of Nursing hopes a new approach to clinical nurse education will help ease the shortage of nurses in the Northeast.
The approach, called the Dedicated Education Unit (DEU), was developed by Flinders University of Australia. Hospital administrators, nurses, and University of Buffalo faculty have collaborated to develop Buffalo's version of the program, which will expand the university's capacity to educate nursing students.
Previously, one university clinical nursing faculty member would provide clinical education to as many as eight students, limiting the amount of face time each student had with his or her clinical instructor. But instead of relying on a limited number of clinical instructors, the DEU approach pairs students with hospital-employed nurses. Each nurse works with only two students, giving the student nurses a more personal approach to learning.
The University of Buffalo is the first nursing school in the northeast to try this education model. It has also been tried at the University of Portland and Pacific Lutheran University, both in Oregon.
Source: UB News
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