Appendix B: Weekly Schedule Template HLTH 3054 Clinical Professional Practice

• Review Clinical Schedule for Level 2
  (HLTH 3054, HLTH 3055, HLTH 3056)
• Student Role
• Clinical Instructor Role
• Clinical Advisor Role (HLTH 3055, HLTH 3056)
• PSW Preceptor Role (HLTH 3055, HLTH 3056)
• Review daily, weekly, midterm, and final student expectations
• Review the Collaborative Success Plan

All Clinical Instructors should be present at this orientation to meet in groups with the students to prepare the students for their first Clinical Day

• Introductions
• Students provide contact information (cell phone number, etc.)
• Check that students have completed onboarding requirements from agency ie training modules
• Bring photocopies of ALL required paperwork ready to submit to the agency
  • Police Check
  • First Aid & CPR
  • Health Form & Bloodwork Results
  • Proof of Flu Shot (if applicable)
  • Mask Fit Test

• General review of course requirements
  (as discussed at Level 2 orientation)
• Complete/Review Student Learning Agreements
• Tour of Long-Term Care facility
• Fire safety, WHMIS
• Hand washing practice
• Lifts Training
• Seek and Find list
• Introduce students to their assigned units

Day 2

• Shadowing a PSW on assigned unit
• Communication: talking to the residents
• Practice donning/doffing and bed making
• Feeding and Mouth care for a resident
• Body mechanics
• Repositioning residents
• Assisting people with walkers/wheelchairs
• Add examples of Domains of Practice to Midterm Evaluation document

Day 3

Continue with all of the above and:

• Providing personal care & hygiene for a resident
  • Mainly independent client with cue-ing recommended
• Add examples of Domains of Practice to Midterm Evaluation document

In Conference:

• Review Data Collection Tool
• Review Documentation of Resident Care

• Police Check
• First Aid & CPR
• Health Form & Bloodwork Results
• Proof of Flu Shot (if applicable)
• Mask Fit Test

• Learning Agreement (signed by student)
• Conduct Agreement (signed by student)
• Review the Clinical Evaluation form

DUE VIA FOL DROPBOX or PRINTED & SUBMITTED:

• “Let Me Get to Know You” reflection
• Reflective Practice Review
• Assignment #1: Communicating with a Client
• Start a folder to keep assignments and evaluations
  (This will be a great portfolio for future interviews.)

• Synthesis of all topics into practice
• Complete/partial bed bath, bath, or shower
• Practicing Range of Motion (ROM) on assigned resident (with supervision)
  Practicing lifts and transfers (with supervision)
• Assisting residents with mechanical lifts
  (with supervision, NEVER independently or with another student)
• Documentation of Resident Care
• Add examples of Domains of Practice to Midterm Evaluation document

In Conference:

• Review Midterm Evaluation Expectations/Domains of Practice
• Review Data Collection Tool
• Review Documentation of Resident Care
• Choose a presentation topic

• Data Collection Tool (DCT)
  • One DCT to be completed on each assigned resident
    Students are responsible for safely carrying their DCTs and are responsible for updating them throughout the day
  • Instructors will check the DCTs daily

DUE VIA FOL DROPBOX or PRINTED & SUBMITTED:

• Assignment #2: Feeding a Client
• Reflective Practice Review
• Begin researching & preparing Student Presentation

• Synthesis of all topics into practice
• Measuring resident’s height and weight
• Vital signs
• Add examples of Domains of Practice to Midterm Evaluation document

In Conference:

• Review Midterm Evaluation Expectations
• Student Presentations

• Midterm Evaluation document completed with Clinical Instructor
  *Ensure to date and sign
  • Add examples of Domains of Practice to Midterm Evaluation
• Data Collection Tool
  • One DCT to be completed on each assigned resident
  • Students are responsible for safely carrying their DCTs and are responsible for updating them throughout the day
  • Instructors will check the DCTs daily

DUE VIA FOL DROPBOX or PRINTED & SUBMITTED:

• Assignment #3: Bathing and Showering a client due
• Reflective Practice Review
• Student Presentation
• Mid-Term Self-Evaluation

* A Collaborative Success Plan (CSP) will be started if needs improvement, or unsatisfactory in any of the five Domains of Practice (see Appendix D) and Chapter 7 in OER

• Synthesis of all topics into practice
• Add examples of Domains of Practice to Midterm Evaluation document

In Conference:

• Student Presentations

PREPARATION for (use OER as a guide):

• HLTH 3055: PSW Consolidation Professional Practice
• HLTH 3056 PSW Professional Practice Community Setting
• Instructor to Review College Guidelines for Consolidation with students
• Schedule for HLTH 3055 Consolidation provided to student

• Discuss Consolidation (HLTH 3055) Clinical Professional Practice Course with clinical instructor & review provided schedule
  Connect with assigned PSW preceptor for HLTH 3055 if able
• Data Collection Tool
  • One DCT to be completed on each assigned resident
  • Students are responsible for safely carrying their DCTs and are responsible for updating them throughout the day
  • Instructors will check the DCTs daily

DUE VIA FOL DROPBOX or PRINTED & SUBMITTED:

• Assignment #4: Personal Nutritional Awareness
• Reflective Practice Review
• Student Presentation

• Synthesis of all topics into practice
• Add examples of Domains of Practice to Final Evaluation document

In Conference:

• Review Guidelines for Clinical Consolidation (HLTH 3055) and Community (HLTH 3056)
• Glucose Testing In-Conference Review Activity
• Ostomy Care
• Student Presentations

PREPARATION for (use OER as a guide):

• HLTH 3055: Consolidation Professional Practice
• HLTH 3056 Community Professional Practice
• Instructor to Review College Guidelines for Consolidation with students

• Data Collection Tool
  • One DCT to be completed on each assigned resident
  • Students are responsible for safely carrying their DCTs and are responsible for updating them throughout the day
  • Instructors will check the DCTs daily

DUE VIA FOL DROPBOX or PRINTED & SUBMITTED:

• Assignment #5: H.S. Care
• Reflective Practice Review
• Student presentation

A Skills Integration Day will be arranged for the students on campus during the HLTH 3054 or HLTH 3055 Clinical Professional Practice weeks.  This day consists of a review of PSW clinical skills.

Further information will be provided by the PSW Program Coordinator

*Clinical Post-Conference is 1 hour of the placement shift