Clinical Learning and Teaching Innovations in Nursing Dedicated Education Units Building a Better Future /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Edgecombe, Kay (Editor), Bowden, Margaret (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Innovation and Change in Professional Education ; 10
• Subjects: Education.; Higher education.; Lifelong learning.; Adult education.; Professional & Vocational Education.; Higher Education.; Learning & Instruction.; Lifelong Learning/Adult Education.

This book provides an in-depth insight into the Dedicated Education Units (DEU) clinical learning strategy. It shows how DEUs work and explains the concept, philosophy, principles, practical implementation and first-hand experiences of this ground-breaking, global work-integrated learning strategy....

Table of Contents:

• Foreword/Preface
• Introduction
• SECTION I
• 1. Dedicated Education Unit: the concept
• 2. The Dedicated Education Unit as a community of practice
• 3. SECTION II: STORYLINES I: DEUs IN PRACTICE
• 3. An ‘idea whose time had come’: The Flinders University School of Nursing DEU — an historical perspective
• 4. The Canberra DEU
• 5. An American experience: transition to the DEU Clinical Education Model
• 6. Dedicated Education Units: Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology and Canterbury District Health Board (CPIT/CDHB), New Zealand
• 7. Dedicated Educational Unit (DEU) – A Scandinavian Model
• 8. Telling it like it is - Various authors writing about personal experience of DEUs
• SECTION III
• 9. From conceptualisation to future expansion: keys to successful DEU implementation and sustainability
• Conclusion.  .