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Enhancing nursing education via academic-clinical partnership: An integrative review

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dc.contributor.author Bvumbwe, Thokozani
dc.date.accessioned 2022-07-15T13:36:54Z
dc.date.available 2022-07-15T13:36:54Z
dc.date.issued 2016
dc.identifier.citation Bvumbwe, T. (2016). Enhancing nursing education via academiceclinical partnership: An integrative review. International journal of Nursing sciences, 3, 314-322. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnss.2016.07.002 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnss.2016.07.002
dc.identifier.uri 192.168.2.8:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/248
dc.description.abstract A competent nursing workforce is important for an effective healthcare system. However, concerns on the poor quality of nursing care and poor competencies among nursing students, nurses, and midwives are increasing in Malawi. Anecdotal notes from stakeholders show shortfalls in nursing education. Furthermore, a large gap between theory and practice exists. This study described the role of academiceclinical partnership in strengthening nursing education. A search of ScienceDirect, PubMed, Medline, and PsychINFO on EBCSOhost and Google Scholar was conducted using the following key words: academic eclinical collaboration, academiceclinical partnership, academic practitioner gap, and college hospital partnership or/and nursing. Furthermore, peer reviewed reports on academiceclinical partnership in nursing were included in the search. Thirty-three records from 2002 to 2016 were reviewed. Six themes emerged from the review: mutual and shared goals, evidence-based practice, resource sharing and collaboration, capacity building, partnership elements, and challenges of academic clinical partnership. The review highlighted that academic-practice partnerships promote shared goal development for the healthcare system. The gap between theory and practice is reduced by the sharing of expertise and by increasing evidence-based practice. Academic clinical partnership improves competencies among students and the safety and health outcomes of patients. The study concluded that the nursing education implemented within an academic clinical partnership becomes relevant to the needs and demands of the healthcare system. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Elsevier en_US
dc.subject Academic clinical collaboration en_US
dc.subject Academic clinical partnership en_US
dc.subject College hospital partnership en_US
dc.subject Theoryepractice gap en_US
dc.title Enhancing nursing education via academic-clinical partnership: An integrative review en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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