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Student Journeys - Nicola Part 1 - start of placement

In this episode, Claire Bauer, Clinical Nurse Educator at The Education Hub Outreach Program is interviewing Nicola about her Social Work placement at the RCH - Melbourne. Nicola is at the start of her placement with the Social Work team at RCH. In later episodes, we will catch Nicola midway and lastly, at the end of her placement. Hope you are enjoying this sub-series within TTT.

Self-care - Part 2 – Hospital environment

Working in healthcare can take an emotional toll as we are continuously exposed to emotionally challenging environments. In this discussion, social workers Robyn Clark and Leah Rotin, talk about strategies for how we look after each other and ourselves on a day-to-day basis, as well as the importance of a work-life balance. 

Student Journeys - Laura

Laura is a nursing student halfway through a six-week placement at the RCH. This placement is also Laura’s last clinical placement before finishing her degree. Laura talks to us about coming from a rural area to undertake a placement at a tertiary hospital, and about being involved in caring for patients and families who have experienced emergency situations.  

Interprofessional Education

To improve and maintain the efficiency of healthcare, the team environment needs to work very well together. But how much do you know about the knowledge and skill set of other members of your team? In this podcast, we chat with Jo Bolton from the University of Melbourne who discusses inter-professional education and why it is so important to ensuring a healthy team dynamic. 
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Failure to fail

Failing a student is not an easy task and can also take a toll on both the assessor and the learner. Sometimes it's just easier to pass them and handball the problem to the next assessor. In this podcast, Dr Cate Scarff talks about the ramifications of 'Failing to Fail' a student and how we all have a responsibility to maintain public safety.  

Supporting the high-achieving student

It's great to supervise a high achieving student. Or is it? It may seem like they are able to learn easily and complete tasks efficiently, but what effect is this having on the student? We talk with Sophie Crotti who has researched the area of the high achieving student, where the supervision of them may not be as easy as it seems.

Self-care - Part 1 - Following a critical event

Being involved in highly stressful situations can take an emotional toll, particularly when you’re expected to go straight back to work following the event. In this podcast, we chat with TJ Clark who is a staff psychologist in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at RCH. TJ talks about her role and how we can help each other to deal with these situations safely. 

The ongoing impact of COVID on clinical education

We’re very much aware of the impact that Covid had on the teaching and learning of healthcare students. How did this affect their clinical education? Medical Imaging Clinical Tutors, Adam Steward (Western Health) and Steve Lacey (RCH) discuss the results of their research into the effects that restrictions had on clinical placement for students and their preparedness to enter the workforce? 

The Education Hub - Conversations from our showcase

The Education Hub ran an event on December 1st 2022, to showcase our department. Members of the Hub presented their projects and educational opportunities available to the Melbourne Children’s Campus. In this podcast, we roam around the showcase and chat with The Education Hub staff about their roles, as well as some of the visitors who share their experiences.   

Tricky conversations with students

Your student comes to placement every day smelling of body odor and you need to address this. Sometimes, we need to have awkward conversations with students, and this is not something that you train for. Here, we present different, yet common scenarios to 2 clinicians to see how they would react.