Nursing Practicum

Introduction:

As the need for quality service increases continuously in competitive manner, evolution of human resource has taken the shape. The credit for each and every excellence has become compulsory. To adopt the best practices in organization bench marking plays a major role. By introducing best practices of competitor nursing plan creates patient nurse trust relationship. Workflow of a nursing practicum is as follows

• Orientation
• Need assessment
• Institutionalization
• Implementation
• Monitoring
• Follow up

Principles of nursing practicum:

Nursing practicum helps in easy leadership practice in the management, the way of nursing plan, organizing the nursing plan implementation, nursing staff, and control over nursing practicum. It adds value to nursing practice in a conceptual mannerism. The ways by which reentry is feasible is of following three types.

• Client centered
• Flexibility
• Protocol or proper communication

Need for nursing practicum:

It helps in re-entry after assessment according to the assessed needs and strength. It strengthens nursing practice in infection control. By proper communication, education, and dissemination reduces the area of nosocomial infection and eliminates risk. It improves the present quality of nursing practice. Revising quality assurance sounds best practice thereby nursing practicum reduces patient care errors. Quality assurance increases the customer satisfaction and inflation of customers. Nursing practicum enhances performance appraisal by providing efficient and effective service. It reduces the conflicts and jealous between professionals. It creates employee satisfaction. Nursing practicum enhance present training style. It also increases the market trend and marketing strategies by health promoting education. It strengthens the accountability level by proper reviewing of nursing documentation. Nursing practicum increases the risk and disaster management in safety concerns. It allows checking existing infrastructure and equipped building facilities. Overall nursing practicum improves involvement and ownership.

Questions:

• What is nursing practicum?
• What are principles of nursing practicum?
• What is the need of nursing practicum?