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PARTNERSHIP:
COMMUNICATION AND
CLINICAL SKILLS
Emeritus Professor Jennifer Boore OBE, FRCN
Dr Carol Hall, Chair of Education Forum
PARTNERS IN EDUCATION
• Academics
• Students and Graduates
• Senior Nurses (Nurse Managers and
Educational Facilitators)
• Clinicians (Nurses and others)
• Patients, Clients and Carers (Service Users)
• Private and Voluntary Organisations
• Statutory Organisations
POWER AND ENGAGEMENT
• In Education:
– power distributed according to contribution
and degree of control of the different partners
– varies within different aspects of the
enterprise
– standards met if all partners contribute their
expertise and resources.
– all partners have power to make or break
quality of the programme
PROMOTING ENGAGEMENT
• Help all partners accept importance of their
contribution and become fully engaged
• All partners contribute to philosophy / values
and beliefs underpinning programme
• Share full information about developments in
curriculum
• Help everyone to understand contribution to
the whole
COSTS AND BENEFITS OF
PARTNERSHIP
• El Ansari Paradox (community health project)
to get commitment to project,
– balance between benefits and costs had to be
positive
– ratio of benefits to costs of 1.6 perceived as
favourable.
BENEFITS
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Being part of a new initiative
Meting others with similar interests
Recognition and respect from others
Recognition and thanks to individuals and
organisations
• Influence nursing curriculum
• Professional development for clinicians and
nurse managers involved in practice education
BENEFITS (cont)
• Shape values of future employees.
• Enhance care of those with particular
conditions
• Help students understand real life experiences
• Students suitably prepared for clinical
placement
• Takes account of placement availability
• Graduates adequately prepared for role as RN
COSTS
• Financial cost of attending meetings
• Time away from own work
• Organisation does not get public recognition
for work in the partnership
• Too many similar organisations involved, no
sense of being special or unique.
• Individuals’ skills and time not well used
Examples of
partnership activities
The Lilliput Theatre Company
• Professional theatre company of adults with
learning difficulties
• Present series of educational sketches which
highlight discrimination that many adults with
learning disabilities face today.
• Focus for discussion about inclusion and
equality issues with students of all fields of
practice