Education for healthcare clinical support workers.
Nurs Stand
; 30(15): 38-41, 2015 Dec 09.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26647705
ABSTRACT
This article reviews the current situation regarding the provision of education and training for healthcare clinical support workers (HCSWs). In the UK, there has been an increasing reliance on unqualified clinical support staff to provide a significant proportion of the direct patient care in all healthcare settings. HCSWs routinely undertake several nursing activities that were traditionally the responsibility of nursing students or junior staff nurses. There is a need for an urgent review of the training of healthcare support staff. A 'tick box' approach to training, with an emphasis on classroom-based or on-the-job learning, makes it difficult for HCSWs to integrate theory into practice, and supports a transactional approach to caring rather than a relational approach to caregiving. Lessons from the educational experiences of other healthcare groups should be applied to the training of HCSWs. An immersive, participatory teaching and learning strategy is one approach that could be used.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Clinical Competence
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Allied Health Personnel
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Learning
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
En
Journal:
Nurs Stand
Journal subject:
ENFERMAGEM
Year:
2015
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United kingdom