NEVER FAIL! How to CONFIDENTLY overcome ACTION PLANS
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- Recently been put on an action plan on placement, or worried about how to achieve a positive outcome from one? From both personal experience, and experience working with students, getting an action plan, or being failed on placement (or 'referred' as we like to call it) at midpoint and/or final is soul-crushing. But let's look at it from a new angle.
Get as much feedback from the very start of your placement as you can (I made a whole video on how to get feedback from placements)
- This provides all-important benchmarking for yourself, as well as your assessors and supervisors to see what level you are currently working at, and then where you are heading.
- Also get verbal updates on your progress from staff and other students on shift - start up a little routine of one good thing and one thing to improve on!
If you find yourself on an action plan; you must engage in the process
- By engaging, this helps you to gain clarity on the exact issues staff feel you need to develop
- It also demonstrates immense levels of professionalism and integrity
All an action plan is, is a plan of action to achieve objectives in certain areas of practice. They are a script for you to work through to achieve the area highlighted for development. A good action plan will be helpful and give criteria for success.
⏰ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:25 Why have action plans?
1:33 What is an action plan?
2:12 How to achieve your action plan: Get feedback
2:59 Start a feedback routine
3:50 What to do with an action plan
5:44 Example action plan
7:06 Get support
8:10 Refection
🎥 Want some more to watch:
•Get feedback on placement: • GET FEEDBACK ON PLACEMENT
•Understanding nursing handover: • Student Nurse Handover...
•How to pass your placement: • HOW TO PASS YOUR PLACE...
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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 stuff using these links 😃 It is just a way to support the channel.
Take care,
Love and hugs,
Ben.
Thanks Ben got my first placement coming up, really positive message about receiving & working on feedback and reflection!
Hey Jared! I am pleased to hear you saw this as positive - so good!! This is exactly what I wanted to show! :) Hope you are doing well, and enjoy your placement!
Very useful Ben ! Great resource link to share with our students about managing their learning and preparation for action plans. Great tips!
Thanks so much, Suzanne! I really hope it helps someone out there! :)
Just done my second placement of my 1st year of study. My first evaluation was mostly good and a couple of very good (very good is the highest what you get in Belgium). The second evaluation was good and very good 50/50! During the last evaluation the head nurse has said that they have rarely such good first year students!!!! Very happy with my progress!
That is fantastic news! Congratulations!! I wish you all the very best for your future placements! 🤩
Great video Ben
Thank you very much, Carol!! 🤩
Hi Ben
I am due to go on my first placement in Haematology ward. I feel completely lost because I do not know how to prepare for it.
Hello!
Is this your first clinical placement ever? If so, you don’t need to do or know anything, apart from what you’ve had from university in terms of preparation (a-e assessment, knowing who and how to ask for help etc.). If you’ve been out to placement before, you know the process; take the first few days to settle in, and start looking around at what you feel you could learn on placement. Look up a couple of common haematological conditions and treatments, just to get yourself used to terminology nothing more at this stage.
Go with an open mind, talk to people, smile and say hello, and you’ll be dragged to different teaching sessions and learning opportunities before you know it! 💪🏼 you’ve got this!
Thanks.