Clinical Facilitation: Essential Skills and Principles

What you will learn

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the dimensions of regulatory requirements and key stakeholders for the nursing and midwifery profession and how they apply to clinical facilitation.
• Identify the roles and responsibilities of a clinical facilitator and consider how certain behaviours can impact a student's PEP experience.
• Recognise the influence of various adult learning principles for clinical facilitation and identify a range of teaching methods to support students during PEP
• Explore a range of skills that clinical facilitators can utilise during PEP to effectively facilitate students.
• Outline the components of assessment of student learning during PEP including strategies to support underperforming students.
• Identify the practical strategies to provide timely, effective and individualised feedback to enhance student learning.
• Understand the importance of the Clinical Reasoning Cycle in relation to reflective practice, critical thinking and professional development.
• Understand the social, psychosocial, economic, physical and cognitive factors that influence student and clinical facilitator wellbeing

This course requires approximately 10 hours of study and assessment.

Learners are engaged through videos, case studies and self-assessment activities which support and reinforce learning. Learners are required to complete a quiz within each module to complete the course successfully.

Our online short course requires approximately 10 hours of eLearning. It is self-paced, allowing you to study at your convenience. Engage in interactive modules, real-world case studies, reflective exercises and self-assessment to make the most of the course content.