GET FEEDBACK ON PLACEMENT

Do you struggle to get placement feedback documented and want to know how to get the nurses to complete your placement interviews on time? Well, this video aims to provide a few hints and tips on how you can gather as much feedback as possible, from a variety of people, as well as methods to ensure you get your initial, midpoint, and final interviews completed on time.
⏰ Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:54 - Get Daily Feedback
01:42 - Write Your Own Feedback
03:08 - Write a List of Achievements
03:53 - When to Ask for Feedback
04:47 - Prompting Staff
06:07 - Pre-planning Interviews
07:01 - Timings for Interviews
07:31 - How to Escalate
08:03 - 2nd or 3rd Year Students
09:00 - Outro
1. Aim to get daily feedback, because every day is a new day and is therefore different, right?
2. Plan dates for your assessments with your assessor ahead of time - aim for midpoint to be ahead of the midpoint of your placement - this is good for a variety of reasons; it gives you time to work on and master any areas for development and gives you more opportunity to get the most to push yourself for the placement, and we all know it helps to reduce anxiety when it is done - so get it done :)
3. Go into your interviews with feedback, reflections, and plans for your next goals or improvements. This is enticing for assessors - you are taking ownership of your own learning and they love this!
4. Your initial interview is essential for you to get a good start, plan it for day 2, day 3, or 4 at the absolute latest. Flag with your Personal Tutor, or Link Lecturer if it is not happening.
5. You can potentially write your own feedback...a reflection for the shift; in this sense, you are providing yourself with feedback, the good bits as well as constructive parts, and the nurse for the day can sign this off and maybe give some deeper insights. Have a go!
6. Provide a list of things you feel you’ve achieved for the day to help the nurse write feedback; or a list of events throughout the day to help jog their memory.
7. Give them the heads up if you are wanting some feedback on a specific skill, proficiency, or professional behavior. If you have spotted an opportunity to carry out an assessment of a patient, carry out a skill like inserting an NG tube, make a phone call handover, ordering a review, then ask for someone to observe you and give feedback!
8. If you have planned to have your midpoint or final done and the day is seeming really crazy busy, speak with your assessor and ask if it would be sensible to replan your assessment for another shift - you may be surprised that they could come up with a plan to get cover for the ward so you can still get it done - or maybe there is a way you can plan cover for the ward? If the day you’ve planned seems a little ‘bitty’ then try to organise your duties to allow for a good hour space so you can hand over the care of your patients to another nurse (with no duties to actually do) - you are being proactive! Again, nurses love this! It is what nursing is about! :)
If there is a particular topic you would like covered, leave a comment and let me know! As always, do ask me questions in the comments about anything to do with placements as a learner and I will see what I can do to help.
🎥 Want some more to watch:
•THIRD YEAR STUDENT NURSE HELP // Newly Registered Nurse - • THIRD YEAR STUDENT NUR...
•Advice on how to start your placements - • How to Start Clinical ...
•How to get through busy shifts on placement as a student nurse - • How to learn on BUSY P...
💙 Some essentials for students:
- Essential clinical skills for nurses: amzn.to/37vBPWH
- Drug calculations for student nurses: amzn.to/3KJAGsM
- Pocket notebook for placement: amzn.to/3w1OfQp
- Multicolour Pens: amzn.to/3MNv1Uy
- Nurse's fob watch: amzn.to/3JeGwSD
- Hand cream is a must too; try something like Aquamax for when you sleep: amzn.to/3q4l1wo
💡 Equipment I love to use:
- ⌨️ Apple Magic Keyboard (so lovely to type on): amzn.to/3wm4d82
- 💻 Very compact Laptop Stand: amzn.to/3KW4Qcp
- 🖱 Powerful Wireless Mouse: amzn.to/3KZkZhj
- 🤓 USB Extender bank with separate switches: amzn.to/3qiTebu
- 📦 External Hard Drive (pricey but so worth it!): amzn.to/3KUGobs
- 🎙 My 'Rode VideoMicro' microphone: amzn.to/3q6p0sp
- 🎥 My iPhone tripod with light: amzn.to/3q4NrpT
- 👓 My blue light glasses to protect the old sight: amzn.to/3wiDx83
🌏 Let’s stay in touch:
IG: / nursebenrn
Twitter: / nursebenrn
LinkedIn: / benlowrn
Disclaimer: some of the links above might be affiliate links which just means I will receive a kickback (but *you don’t pay any extra*) if you buy any of the suff using these links 😃 It is just a way to support the channel.

[@sinepar7130]

I had my first placement in November - December 2021 (in Belgium). OMG. No one loves to give a feedback! I mean, come on guys, we have shortage of nurses and you should be nice to people who already have a well paid job but willing to take evening classes to become a part time nurse to help the system. Anyway, what worked for me was to ask for a feedback just before I would leave for a lunch (at around 12.00 -12.30 during early shifts - 07.00 -15.06). I would already fill in my experience for the day and what I need to work on and would leave the paper on the desk and would tell my mentor that I would appreciate the feedback. I got it in 95 percent of the time! The rest of 5 percent I got the signature under what I have wrote just because it was extremely busy on the ward. So, try different strategies to see what works for you. Thank you Ben for your videos, I learn a lot from them!

[@TheLondonNurse]

Hello!
I can totally hear and feel your frustrations with getting feedback - but your perseverance clearly pays off if you’ve gotten so much feedback. Really well done!
I completely agree with finding what method works… it will be different with different staff too. ☺️
Hope you’re doing well in Belgium! Lovely to hear from you. Ben

[@henrysmith2664]

Hi Ben, your video is good but doesn’t take into account those of us with ePad! These throw up different challenges and it’s not as easy to obtain feedback ‘in the moment’. Time, computer access, ePad format, not being a supervisor/assessor enrolled onto ePad, passwords, all create issues when trying to get it completed! I wish it was as easy as asking someone to write a few comments and sign!!
I feel another video coming…..!!!
Best wishes 👍

[@TheLondonNurse]

Hello Henry. Thanks so much for this. I did think about the differences with an ePAD vs the paper documents and yes the ePAD has a few additional aspects to getting feedback documented due to those technicalities. I still feel the main principles stand here even with an ePAD, as it is still about prompting staff, finding the courage to ask repeatedly, organising your time with your patient workload to free up the space to be able to sit with your assessor or supervisors. The issues extending to ePADs is more around the technical side of getting access to the document, rather than a student feeling empowered to know how to gain feedback in the first place.
Maybe you have some tips here to comment to help other students with getting past these issues?
Cheers!
Ben