Clinical Immersion: An Approach for Fostering Cross-disciplinary Communication and Innovation in Nursing and Engineering Students
| Autor: | Andrea Arce-Trigatti, Melissa J Geist, Kevin Harris, Robby Sanders, Cary Hitchcock-Cass |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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020205 medical informatics
media_common.quotation_subject education MEDLINE 02 engineering and technology Health outcomes Education Creativity Thinking 03 medical and health sciences Engineering Nursing Health care 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Humans Curriculum media_common 030504 nursing business.industry Cross disciplinary Education Nursing Baccalaureate LPN and LVN Nursing Education Research Critical thinking Nursing Evaluation Research Engineering education Review and Exam Preparation Fundamentals and skills Interdisciplinary Communication Students Nursing Diffusion of Innovation 0305 other medical science business Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Nurse educator. 44(2) |
| ISSN: | 1538-9855 |
| Popis: | Background A faculty team from nursing and chemical engineering developed a course that brought together students from each discipline for cross-disciplinary, team-based clinical immersion and collaboration. Problem Health care processes and devices are rapidly changing, and nurses are uniquely positioned to be bedside innovators to improve patient care delivery. Approach During each clinical immersion, the student teams rotated through various hospital units where they identified problems and worked together in the university's makerspace (iMaker Space) to design and build prototypes to improve health outcomes. Outcomes Data from the Critical thinking Assessment Test provided evidence of gains in critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, while the problems identified in the clinical setting and prototypes developed demonstrated the impact of bringing nursing and engineering students together to design innovations. Conclusions When challenged to identify authentic problems during their clinical immersion, the teams of nursing and engineering students proposed creative solutions and developed commercially viable prototypes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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