latrobe.edu.au CRICOS Provider 00115M
Moving midwifery placements online
Terry Young (Online T&L Developer PLS)Michelle Newton (BNBM Course Coordinator)
PebbleBash 201416th April
2La Trobe University
Midwifery placement documentation – where have we come from
3La Trobe University
Problems with the existing system….
• Potential for records to be misplaced, lost, never received, eaten by the dog…..
• Report integrity questionable
• student responsible for the final submission after the clinical educator has finalised the document
• Limited reporting capacity
• Audits on specific aspects require every report to be pulled from the file of the students
• Administrative burden
• Students requests for the reports
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Moving to the on-line environment
Design• Scope• Design• Plan• Requirements
Develop• Prototype• Test/Simulate• Review/Modify
Implement
• Release• Training• Support
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Moving to the on-line environment
Develop
• Prototype
• Test/Simulate• Student view• Clinical Educator view• Subj. Coordinator view
• Review/Modify
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Moving to the on-line environment
Implement
• Test Clinical sites
• Release
• Training• Students• Clinical Educators• Subj. Coordinators
• Support• Online videos• Help instructions• Discussion forum
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Pilot of a first year clinical report tool
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Outcomes -
Feedback from the pilot was extremely positive from all three user groups
• Students:
• Encouraged an ‘ownership’ of their placement documentation
• Clinical educators:
• More engaged in their responsibility of the clinical documentation
• Provided insight into the reflective process of the students
• Academic staff:
• Ease of reporting clinical completion
• Expedited release of results• Nor reliant on students physically delivering the reports
• Confidence around integrity of reports
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Outcomes
Reusable “How to” Guidelines for staff developed
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What might we do different??
• Increasing access on mobile platforms for ease of use in the clinical setting
• Have a completion field that date, time and ID stamps the completing academic
• Develop more FAQs for new user questions and issues
• Create a simple timeline for user reference ie. who, what, when
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Where to from here…
• Reports in a Pebble Pad format to be progressively rolled across all years of the curriculum
• Exploring capacity for tool to feed into a ‘Master Document’ what will collate the documented requirements from each placement
• Taking it a step further – once acceptance is evident amongst users could explore moving the whole ‘Blue Book’ to the on-line environment (mobile platforms needed)
• Establish automated reports linked to clinical placement progression
• Identifying the student ‘at risk’
• Reporting to Registering Authority
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Where to from here…
• Consider more reflection activities which accompany the learning experiences logged
• Investigate the design of a professional portfolio which the students may work toward
• Aim to have a system design which is minimal maintenance and is sustainable
• Based on the outcomes of this implementation, a whole course approach is under consideration. Many staff are now keen to use the toolsets.
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