Surviving Your Placement in Health and Social Care: A Student Handbook
Joan Healey,Margaret Spencer

ISBN: 0335222595,
Division: Open University Press,
Price: £16.99,
Pub Date: DEC-07,

Pages: 176
Edition: 01
Format: Paperback

Availability: In Stock


Description

"This attractive workbook provides a wealth of tools and `top tips? for students of health and social care struggling to survive the demands of 21st century practice placements. The authors artfully distil their knowledge, experience and expertise in placement learning in order to accompany the student on their journey from novice to qualified professional."
Stephanie Hobson, Head of Practice Education, Oxford Brookes University

As students in health and social care professions, you will spend up to half of your time out on placement. This accessible and practical book is designed to help you make the most of this invaluable learning experience and is suitable for use in all areas of practice, whether you are training to be a nurse, midwife, occupational therapist, social worker or physiotherapist.

In student friendly language it covers all the main areas of placement learning, including:

  • Developing a learning contract
  • Reflective practice
  • Using supervision
  • Managing time
  • Evidence-based practice
  • Capturing your learning in a personal and professional portfolio
  • Failing placements
This book of highly practical chapters provides reflection exercises, questions, tests, ideas and tools to use on your placement, case studies to read and practical tips throughout to help you achieve your best on placement, in whatever area of practice you are in.

Surviving Your Placement in Health and Social Care is key reading for all health and social care students, including nurses, social workers, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and radiographers amongst other.

Author Biography

Margaret Spencer worked with people with learning disabilities for eight years before starting work at Sheffield Hallam University in1992. She has been involved in the expansion of practice placements and their assessment for fifteen years and was part of the development of the unique joint accreditation course for placement educators between Derby University and Sheffield Hallam University Occupational Therapy programmes.

Joan Healey worked as an occupational therapist with older people for 11 years before joining Sheffield Hallam University in 1997. In the area of placement learning her role has included developing new and non-traditional placements and leading a work-based learning occupational therapy programme.


Table of Contents

Using this book
Preparing yourself for placement
Reflective practice
Writing learning objectives
Assessment
Complex decision making and professional reasoning
Balance and time management
Supervision
The personal and professional development process
Interprofessional perspectives on placement
Evidence based practice and using the internet
Failure
Not quite the end??



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