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Public Health Clinical Placement Program

Public Health Clinical Placement Program. Lisa Finetti Hahn MS, BSN, RN Chief Nurse, Community Nursing Programs Oakland County Health Division. Objectives. Building relationships with universities for clinical placement How to be a clinical placement site

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Public Health Clinical Placement Program

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  1. Public Health Clinical Placement Program Lisa Finetti Hahn MS, BSN, RN Chief Nurse, Community Nursing Programs Oakland County Health Division

  2. Objectives • Building relationships with universities for clinical placement • How to be a clinical placement site • Decrease the burden on the clinical site

  3. Background • More and more students/universities requesting clinical placements • Difficulty recruiting new nurses • Decrease funding • No designated staff over program • 15 different programs in the health division with different supervisory staff

  4. Internal Assessment • No additional funding for students • Students were more likely to be interested in Public Health Nursing if they had a clinical rotation at one of our sites • No internal policies regarding students • No set format when a request for placement occurred • Nursing students identified they needed more information about public health services • No prioritization of programs/requests occurred

  5. External Assessment • Universities were having difficulties placing students in their community/public health experiences • Each university had different expectations and requirements for placements • Student placements requests came from both individual students and universities • Students were not always supervised

  6. Research • Met with universities: • Reviewed syllabus, objectives of course, projects required and prerequisites • Reviewed Capstone project requirements • Many universities will have a list of projects • Discussed expectations of clinical placement • What did we as a public health agency think students need to learn?

  7. Public Health Essentials • Definition of Public Health: https://www.malph.org/ • Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals: http://www.phf.org/resourcestools/Pages/Core_Public_Health_Competencies.aspx • Public Health System and the 10 Essential Public Health Services: https://www.cdc.gov/publichealthgateway/publichealthservices/essentialhealthservices.html

  8. Examples-Public Health Core Competencies System and Services

  9. Getting Started • Meet at your agency • What is your goal? • What is your capacity? • Assign roles • Develop policies -Determine your agencies priorities • What does your agency have in place when requests come in? • Track numbers of students • Re-evaluate and meet regularly

  10. Example-Presentation Presentations offered during orientation to LPH Services

  11. Examples-Request for placement Internal Student Placement Calendar Request for Clinical Placement

  12. Example-Procedure Definitions of type of clinical placement

  13. Build Relationships • Be proactive: • Meet yearly to determine what is working • Email requests early-to hold placement • Encourage use of your agencies contract • Partner with agency • Grants • Activities-drills, clinics

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