1. Skip to content

Employer Quotes

The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Health Care

They are talking about this topic: Educational Partnerships

 

Your Selection:


The quotes below are about this issue:
When discussing the importance of clinical experience, employers state there needs to be improvements in clinicals, such as more communication between the educational institutions and the clinical agencies where students are being placed; more consideration of how many students clinics can realistically take; and more research into funding sources and fellowships for nursing students (especially students who are specializing). They would also like to see more long-term care placements.

Employer Quote Region
"Question: Would the applicant have come to you with more clinical experience ten years ago?

Employer: Well, maybe 20 years ago."		 Northwest
"I'm not saying we should go back to the diploma programs, but it's too bad that we can't tap into federal dollars and a newer model that would enable the current schools to exist but somehow partner with hospitals." Northwest
"I think there needs to be more collaboration between the academic setting and the clinical agency. I mean, anytime you're talking about curriculum changes on the academic side, all of a sudden health care makes a change—or the clinical agency makes a change—and even though you're telling them, 'We're making a change,' sometimes academia doesn't hear it. Or, sometimes academia makes a change and the clinical setting isn't prepared to facilitate that change. So, I think there has to be more dialogue between the clinical agency and the academic area to make sure that we're both on the same page. For example, they say, 'Oh, we're going to increase our enrollment by 30 students,' and you go, 'What? Where am I going to put these students? I don't have any clinical space,' and yet the expectation is that you're going to take those students. Maybe that's kind of a lame example, but it's like all of a sudden they say, 'Well, you're going to take eight—my clinical group is eight students—and take them to the nursing home.' Well, that might not be reasonable, depending on the size of your nursing home. So, I think there needs to be more collaboration between the academic world and the clinical world." Northwest
"It doesn't replace clinical, but it augments your clinical experience. I think that there's a real shortage of programs for simulation.

But now they're beginning to get dollars for their simulations. If they are able to write a grant, we get dollars in corporate electronic medical records. So, that whole piece. I think dollars need to be put into that for schools to build that even further. And I think that goes a lot with the way this next generation learns—they want more technology and that goes along with those kinds of simulation things. So, I think you have to look at the learner, and how they're learning in this generation.

Question: So, that suggests more of these simulation deals. But how—I mean, where does the patient care part of this come in? How do they get that?

Employer: There has to be a balance."		 Northwest