Using a communication audit to improve communication on clinical placement in pre-registration nursing

Hogard, Elaine; Ellis, Roger; Ellis, Jacqueline; Barker, Chris

doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2004.10.006

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“…Students identified that PDT staff helped with communication issues and supported them: communication is noted as problematic and a significant disquiet for students elsewhere in the literature, particularly surrounding the amount of communication received on topics including allocations, the curriculum and students’ learning outcomes [ 9 ]. Poor communication is an important factor in students’ leaving their programmes [ 10 ].…”

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Longitudinal Evaluation of the Impact of Placement Development Teams on Student Support in Clinical Practice

Williamson¹,

Callaghan²,

Whittlesea³

et al. 2011

Open Nurs J

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Aims:To investigate the impact of a new structure for supporting healthcare students and mentors in practice placements (Placement Development Teams).Introduction:The English Model National Partnership Agreement for healthcare education required Strategic Health Authorities, Higher Education Institutions and National Health Service Trusts to redesign strategies for student support. Placement Development Teams are one English University’s response to this.Materials and Methodology:This study was phase 2 of a longitudinal qualitative evaluation of Placement Development Teams. Data were collected after establishment of Placement Development Teams, and compared and contrasted with those collected prior to their implementation.Telephone interviews were conducted with key educational stakeholders in Trusts and Strategic Health Authorities. Focus groups were conducted with third year non-medical healthcare students and first year paramedics working in 16 NHS Trusts in the south west peninsula of England.Results:Pre-Placement Development Teams, themes from the students’ data were: Supportive and unsupportive behaviour of staff; Mentor allocation; Placement allocation; Benefits of students to the placement area and Perceived control over the learning experience. Post-Placement Development Teams, the themes were Communication; Supportive and unsupportive behaviour of staff; The effect of peers on the placement experience; Knowledge and perceptions of the work of the PDTs.Form the staff data, pre-Placement Development Teams the themes were: Vision for improving student support. Post-Placement Development Teams themes from the staff data were how they provided a central point of contact for student and mentor support; and how they supported students and mentors.Conclusion:Support of students and mentors is particularly important following the introduction of The English Model National Partnership Agreement for healthcare education. Placement Development Teams can facilitate partnership working between higher education institutions and placement providers for student support.

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Longitudinal Evaluation of the Impact of Placement Development Teams on Student Support in Clinical Practice

Williamson¹,

Callaghan²,

Whittlesea³

et al. 2011

Open Nurs J

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“…A new audit text (Hargie and Tourish, 2000) was published at the turn of the century, and an updated edition of an established audit book (Downs and Adrian, 2004) was published four years later. In addition, audit research papers (Bilbao et al, 2002;Hargie et al, 2002Hargie et al, , 2003Quinn and Hargie, 2004;Hogard et al, 2005), book chapters (Kazoleas and Wright, 2001;Tourish and Hargie, 2004), and critiques (Gayeski, 2000;Dickson et al 2003) of audit methodologies, have also recently been published.…”

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Are important corporate policies understood by employees?

Hargie¹,

Dickson²

2007

JCOM

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Purpose-This paper aims to present the results of a study into the effectiveness of the communication of anti-sectarian legislation in four of the largest public and private sector organizations in Northern Ireland (NI). The study had two related central objectives. Firstly, to ascertain the level of employee understanding of anti-sectarian rules and regulations in NI workplaces, and, secondly, to evaluate the relevance of an Episodic Communication Channels in Organization (ECCO) approach to the investigation of this key aspect of organizational practice. Design/methodology/approach-An ECCO questionnaire was used to evaluate and track employee understanding of existing legislation, and chart the sources, channels, location and timing of information dissemination. Findings-A clear finding was that there was a paucity of employee understanding of existing policies and procedures with regard to sectarianism. Practical implications-The results are discussed in relation to the importance of effective information flow on key organizational issues. Originality/value-The efficacy of ECCO as a communication audit tool for charting information dissemination is evaluated.

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“…The modified questionnaire, named the Hogard Barker Communication Audit for Placements instrument (Hogard et al 2005), was in the form of a questionnaire divided into 13 sections, each one dealing with a different aspect of communication, together with a covering sheet for demographic information on participants. In 7 of the sections, respondents were asked to rate the amount of communication received or sent and communication needed on a broad topic and its subsets according to the following values: very little, little, some, great, and very great.…”

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Evaluation and Communication

Hogard

Ellis

2006

Eval Rev

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This article identifies a surprising dearth of studies that explicitly link communication and evaluation at substantive, theoretical, and methodological levels. A three-fold typology of evaluation studies referring to communication is proposed and examples given. The importance of organizational communication in program delivery is stressed and illustrative studies reviewed. It is proposed that organizational communication should be considered in all program evaluations and that this should be approached through communication audit. Communication audits are described with particular reference to established survey questionnaire instruments. Two case studies exemplify the use of such instruments in the evaluation of educational and social programs.

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Using a communication audit to improve communication on clinical placement in pre-registration nursing

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

Longitudinal Evaluation of the Impact of Placement Development Teams on Student Support in Clinical Practice

Longitudinal Evaluation of the Impact of Placement Development Teams on Student Support in Clinical Practice

Are important corporate policies understood by employees?

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