Student Nurse Led Ward in Aged Care

The process and challenges of obtaining and sustaining clinical placements for nursing and allied health students

“…). Other innovations have included student‐led clinics or wards (Grealish & Trede , Nicole et al . ), 2:1 students to clinician ratio (Lekkas et al .…”

Student-Run Hospital Wards: Institutionalized Workplace Learning Opportunities for Nursing Students

“…Student-run hospital wards (SHW) are institutionalised learning arrangements in which nursing students are fully responsible for the planning, organisation, and implementation of patient care within a real-existing hospital ward for a limited time frame of usually two to four weeks during their initial nursing training (Hauck & Schuster, 2014; see also Grealish & Trede, 2013 for a description of a similar concept in the English literature). Throughout this time nursing students take over all ward duties (e.g., organisational tasks, patient care) and are only shadowed by a few already qualified nurses who may intervene in life-threatening situations or are available for pressing questions concerning patient care.…”