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Community placements: A pocket guide for student nurses
(Lantern Publishing, 2018-11-30) McKinlay, Lesley; Tsigkas, Georgios; Dickson, Caroline; Stuart, Fiona
Community placements are part of every student nurse's learning pathway - but they can be intimidating to the unprepared. This pocket guide is designed to make placements more enjoyable and less stressful, to help student nurses get the most out of their time in the community.
Developing facilitation skills amongst undergraduate nursing students to promote dementia awareness with children in a higher education institution (innovative practice)
(Sage, 2018-11-17) Gibson, Caroline; Rennie, Karen; Dewing, Jan; McKinlay, Lesley
Final year students on a BSc Hons Nursing programme in Scotland were supported to become Dementia Friends facilitators and develop interactive dementia awareness sessions for children from local schools. The children were invited to indicate phrases and images they associated with ‘dementia’ at the outset and end of the session. Analysis of the responses suggested that there were positive changes in the children’s values and beliefs when thinking about a person living with dementia during the sessions. We suggest that peer learning is a valuable strategy to increase public and professional awareness about dementia and supports the development of graduate attributes.