THE VALUE OF INTERPROFESSIONAL FEEDBACK AS PART OF A PRE-REGISTRATION MODULE IN GERIATRIC NURSING

摘要

Pre-registration interprofessional education is often difficult to organise due to separation of healthcare disciplines by institution, culture and learning needs. One way to introduce an element of interprofessional learning to a single discipline - in this case nursing - is to bring together an interprofessional faculty team to offer students feedback from different perspectives. Pre-registration nursing students participated in a rotation of simulated scenarios relating to the care of an older patient, role-played by a service-user. Following each station, students received feedback from faculty members representing nursing, physiotherapy, social work and medicine, allowing them to question and reflect upon the key roles of each of the team members. Evaluation of this approach demonstrated that students and faculty members all benefitted from the opportunity to rehearse interprofessional assessment in a variety of simulated scenarios, based on a shared aim of providing appropriate care for an older patient.