Rebecca McDiarmid and Donna Burkett
Otago Polytechni0063, New Zealand
Title: Navigating and nurturing the student nurse journey towards clinical excellence
Biography
Biography: Rebecca McDiarmid and Donna Burkett
Abstract
The unique landscape of New Zealand healthcare settings requires new graduate nurses to be responsive to the variation in complexities of care and health workforce dynamics. To prepare new graduate nurses for this evolving landscape and equip nurses with the skills to sustain practice into the future, a peer clinical coaching program has been successfully implemented within undergraduate nursing curriculum in New Zealand. The clinical coaching program provided a strategic connection of learners with enhanced opportunities to embed professional competencies required by Nursing Council of New Zealand.