Wolters Kluwer Health
has announced the launch of Lippincott Clinical Experiences: Community,
Public, and Population Health Nursing to prepare nursing students for
practice in the burgeoning field of population health using an
innovative virtual community with realistic, hands-on clinical
experiences. Designed to be integrated in nursing programs, Lippincott
Clinical Experiences delivers a wide-ranging variety of clinical
encounters to help students gain proficiency in practice environments
that are logistically challenging to simulate, such as natural disaster
sites, domestic violence shelters or correctional facilities. The
program can also help supplement clinical time or missed clinicals.
In response to emerging integrated wellness models, nursing programs
have been called on to adapt and expand population health curricula. At
the same time, nursing schools are challenged with planning clinical
activities in a variety of non-hospital settings where students can gain
a comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted nature of community
and public health nursing. In many cases, schools are unable to expose
students to enough settings, situations, and populations-in both urban
and rural locales-to effectively demonstrate the breadth and depth of
population health nursing. In other instances, legal, safety, and
ethical issues prevent students from clinical experiences that are too
sensitive, dangerous, rarely occurring, or with vulnerable populations.
The innovative new resource is authored by Jone Tiffany, DNP, MA,
RNC-OB, CNE, and Barbara A. Hoglund, EdD, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CNE—both
nurse educators with numerous publishing credits on the use of simulated
clinical experiences in community and public health curriculum.
Lippincott Clinical Experiences can be put toward clinical hours,
assigned as homework, and/or used with interactive classroom activities.
The included clinicals are diverse, ranging from public health nursing
situations (e.g., WIC, screenings, and inter-professional care
conferences) and community assessment, to intimate partner violence and
elder abuse, to disaster assessment, response, and post-disaster
recovery. Also featured are clinicals focused on home safety and the
aging adult; case management/transitions of care in a primary care
clinic; correctional facility nursing; gun violence, bullying and teen
homelessness; health policy and social justice; global response to
natural disasters and infectious diseases; and much more. Lippincott
Clinical Experiences offers an unmatched level of clinical diversity to
help students expand their mindset beyond nurse-client to a broader
population health perspective.