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CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN PROFESSIONAL PLACEMENT LEARNING

CEPPL OVERVIEW Dr Graham R Williamson and Sally Lewis. CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN PROFESSIONAL PLACEMENT LEARNING. AIMS. The development of best practice in various key aspects of placement learning provision

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CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN PROFESSIONAL PLACEMENT LEARNING

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  1. CEPPL OVERVIEW Dr Graham R Williamson and Sally Lewis CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN PROFESSIONAL PLACEMENT LEARNING

  2. AIMS • The development of best practice in various key aspects of placement learning provision • The development of new, innovative placement opportunities for students, with an explicitly transformative agenda

  3. ‘Development’ and other activities • Preparing and training staff • Rethinking interprofessional education • Monitoring and enhancing the placement learning context • Supporting students with disabilities • Assessment in practice • Enhancing library access

  4. Mobile Learning • Research and development team • Transformative placements • Innovations Funding • Graduate Fellowships

  5. Preparing and training staff • To enhance placement learning through identifying, developing and sharing best practice in preparing and training staff who support and/or assess students’ learning in practice. • Identified existing excellence and are undertaking a national survey to inform development of materials

  6. Rethinking Interprofessional Education • to evaluate IPE initiatives; to establish and embed a set of core IPE principles into the Faculty of Health and Social Work`s curriculum; to refurbish existing placements and to develop new ones through the philosophy of patient/service user-centred care

  7. Monitoring and Enhancing Placement Learning Context • Has introduced EQUIP as a partnership between FHSW placements and HEIs • Informed the establishment Placement Development Teams • Evaluating PDTs & action learning sets for induction and orientation (SHA & Schedule 2)

  8. Supporting students with disabilities • to improve placement opportunities as well as support for disabled students, and to dismantle barriers that confront students in placement settings. • Pilot study of assessment to inform development of an audit tool

  9. Assessment in Practice • The aim of this development activity is to develop generic guidelines for best practice in relation to assessment in and of practice. • Longitudinal case study, focus groups and lit review

  10. Enhancing Library Access • Our current focus is the development of a user guide for students on placement and work is underway on the prototype.

  11. Mobile Learning • exploring the value that mobile learning can bring to students’ educational experiences while they are on placement. Placement settings for University of Plymouth students are widely distributed across the South West Peninsula, and beyond. The use of mobile devices offers huge potential to address these issues.

  12. Research and Development Team • The research team within the Centre consists of a Research Fellow (Dr. Lynne Callaghan) and research assistants with experience of working within health and social care

  13. Transformative Placement Opportunities • new, innovative, interprofessional placement opportunities for students, with an explicitly transformative agenda. • the provision of health and social care to historically disenfranchised and marginalised groups such as refugees, asylum seekers, people who are homeless, and carers of chronically ill individuals

  14. Innovations Fund Fellowships • Awards made annually (£7500) in a competitive process for innovative projects • Providing back-fill for staff; • funding a research assistant, project worker or learning technologist; • developing materials; • conference attendance.

  15. Examples from 2007-2008 • Objective Structured Clinical Examinations; Expert Clinical Examiners Decision Processes? Are they Recognition Primed and is intuition a reliable decision strategy?Dr Simon CooperReview of the Anti-Racist standards in Anti-Oppressive Practice for the BSc in Social WorkMargaret JelleyTheory focused practice: Enhancing the evidence base for children's nursing practice. An Action Research ProjectMargaret Chambers

  16. Graduate Fellowships • Graduate Fellowships are aimed at students who have produced outstanding work-based learning or project work, at undergraduate or master`s level that has the potential to impact on practice/placement learning and teaching and/or on the delivery of care to the service user

  17. Examples from 2006-07 • Competence for Professional PracticeMark Berry • Professional Placement Learning for Deaf and Hearing Impaired studentsMichelle Paradine • Social Work Practice with Minority Language Users in the UK The Roots of Linguicism, and its Consequences for IdentityValerie Bishop

  18. NURSE LED THROMBOLYSIS: • Sloman, M and Williamson, G R. Paper submitted to International Emergency Nursing (2008) • Presented at 1. CEPPL Innovation in Placement Learning Conference. University of Plymouth. April 2008. • 2. Nurse Education Tomorrow. Sept 2008. • 3. Trinity College Dublin. Nov 2008

  19. Future work? • Sustainability • Further embedding work within University and beyond (modules, processes, activities) • Ceppl@plymouth.ac.uk

  20. Any questions?

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