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Implementing pertinent and sustainable clinical placement models for Gippsland CPN

This project gathered evidence around existing supervision models to determine Best Practice approaches in a range of settings - it also provided supervision skills training to local clinical supervisors.

Improve IT facilities for students at Kyneton District Health Service

To improve education facilities to support students whilst on clinical placement at KDHS, while working towards the implementation of a Best Practice Clinical Learning Environment.

Improving clinical placement

This project installed IT and ICT equipment to build capacity for nursing and allied health clinical placements at Kyabram and District Health Service's community health facility.

Improving the clinical learning experience at Point Lonsdale Medical Group

This project improved the clinical learning experiences at Point Lonsdale Medical Group by enhancing the facilities and clinical equipment available for medical and nursing students. Student placements were increased from 66 to 132 benefited from designated rooms which were needed to host the increase in student numbers.

Increasing capacity and quality of student and clinician learning in the community setting

This project utilised the existing capacity for undergraduate clinical placements to increase potential for nursing students and to facilitate improved post-registration learning for clinicians within St John of God Health Choices through the provision of opportunities to practise clinical skills relevant to the community nursing setting.

Increasing capacity of clinical placements for entry-level allied health and nursing, midwifery students by exploring clinical placement opportunities outside regular business hours

This project explored the advantages, disadvantages and factors that support the implementation of clinical placement opportunities for nursing, midwifery and allied health students outside of regular business hours (i.e. outside of 9:00am – 5:00pm). The project undertook mapping activities to determine current out-of-hours placement activity in the Northern Metropolitan CPN (now known as NorthWest Metro Workforce Network) and developed a 'how to' tool for organisations wishing to implement an out-of-hours model. Discussion Paper 2: maps out-of-hours clinical service delivery and placement activity for nursing, midwifery and allied health students across the Northern Metropolitan CPN. Also explores current supervision and placement coordination models.

Increasing capacity through student-led clinics

This project developed and piloted a student-led primary care clinic through which patient-centered care was delivered to aged patients in the Mornington Peninsula CPN (Melbourne South) by mixed-discipline student teams.

Increasing IT infrastructure and physical resources to support student placements

This project installed additional IT resources and purchased mobile clinical equipment and tablets for student use while on community-based placements.

Increasing student clinical placements in primary care organisations within the Eastern CPN

Proposes to adapt and implement elements of the North West Metropolitan Region Student Placement Project - Phase 2 (NWMRSPP2) to meet the needs of the Eastern CPN with the overall aim of increasing teaching capacity in primary health settings.

Increasing student exposure to the aged care service system

This project trialled a clinical placement pilot program in the Mornington Peninsula CPN (Melbourne South) that provided student exposure to care opportunities in community-based aged care environments. The project uncovered opportunities for increasing capacity through aged care services and agencies not regularly used by most disciplines and it delivered a package of effective and relevant aged care learning in a model that was valued by students.

Innovative allied health primary care chronic disease management, health promotion and private practice placements

This project expanded opportunities for allied health clinical placements via new partnerships across primary care, private practice, health promotion and aged care. The project had a particular focus on chronic disease management and inclduded interprofessional learning components.

Interprofessional learning: Learning together to work together in Melbourne's north

This project assisted organisations with developing their capacity to deliver interprofessional education (IPE) in the Northern Metropolitan CPN (Melbourne North) by training health professionals to deliver IPE programs, piloting IPE approaches, establishing a special interest group and developing and trialling an IPE resource guide.

Interprofessional orientation for students in paediatrics within the Central Metropolitan CPN

This project developed an online student orientation program for use across all healthcare disciplines attending clinical placements at the Royal Children's Hospital. The project responded to an identified inefficiency within the organisation whereby orientation often repeated across medicine, nursing and allied health disciplines with content, such as organisation and paediatric-specific content, mirrored for each discipline. The project facilitated cross-discipline collaboration to develop and implement a website that has been in use since by students March 2012.

Introducing clinical placements for undergraduate students in Aboriginal general practice and community settings

This project established a centralised placement coordination model that involved ACCHOs, small rural health services (with integrated aged care and community health services), local pharmacies and a medicare local. Cultural safety materials and manuals were also produced to ensure safe interactions with aboriginal patients and students, including in mainstream health environments.

Kerang District Hospital capacity building project

This project increased the quality and quantity of accommodation available to students whilst on clinical placement at Kerang District Hospital and also created learning spaces for medical, allied health and nursing students by utilising and refurbishing an exisiting building.

Loddon Mallee rural accommodation and infrastructure program - Bendigo Health

Proposes to refurbish and furnish 12 bed accommodation currently used to house Bendigo Health staff to become dedicated clinical student accommodation

Loddon Mallee rural accommodation and infrastructure program - Mildura Base Hospital

Aims to: Purchase suitable accommodation for rotational placements of undergraduate nursing and allied health students, providing a minimum of four (4) beds to meet both current and future demand. Improve and maintain linkages with all health education providers, through the provision of attractive undergraduate placements

Merri Community Health Services - Creating a student-friendly hub in Coburg

This project increased the capacity of Merri Community Health Service (MCHS) to take on additional allied health students, ensuring that there were proper services to facilitate and support multidisciplinary placements.

Moira Health Service IT student support program

Aims to enhance the sustainability of increased clinical placement negotiated through the Hume CPN clinical placement planning (multilateral negotiations) trial by providing IT access to current and potential students in order to support them academically during their placement.

Moira health services interprofessional clinical placement coordination project

This project increased clinical placement capacity across small rural health services in the Moira Shire of Victoria. Partners worked together to identify barriers and enablers to placement opportunities within their organisations, and then streamlined processes between them by establishing systems to support clinical training. This project was extended under the Clinical Supervision Support Program and resources from this component will be available on this site upon the project's completion.