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Friday, 21 July 2006
Collaborative Partnership: Nursing Student Perspective
Rebecca Bartlett, BS, School of Nursing, Indiana University, na, IN, USA
Baccalaureate nursing students collaboratively partnered with a family practice clinic director and nursing management clinical faculty to establish best practice quality improvement measures for the clinic. This quality improvement project engaged students in service-learning, resulting in the implementation of the analysis of quality indicators, with a report card to follow. Unique to this learning experience, all students involved in this work were second degree seeking individuals. Each student brought a different educational preparation in addition to his or her nursing courses, which strengthened collaboration as this work progressed. This presentation will describe the collaborative efforts between baccalaureate nursing students and their partnership with the family practice clinic and nursing faculty from the student perspective. The director of the family practice clinic and clinical faculty challenged students to add meaning to this project and provided students with an opportunity to use nursing management skills and autonomy in a project that contributed to quality improvement for the family practice clinic with the aim of improving access to care.
This work commenced with a review of literature to determine the existence of best practice measurement tools for the family practice setting. After conducting the reviews, students studied the clinic cycle times to determine clients wait time to access care. The culmination of this project resulted in a student developed survey tool to measure client satisfaction and the implementation of clinic quality indicators.
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