You will find more information on the School Practice Web Pages
Tower Hamlets Community of Practice (CoP)
NMC Guidance on Professional Conduct for Students (September 2010)
The Code: Standards of conduct, performance and ethics for nurses and midwives (April 2008)
Clinical Practice is the development and delivery of high quality teaching and learning in health and social care practice settings.
Placement experiences constitute 50% of each student's programme and are a vital factor in promoting understanding and development of professional craft knowledge or 'finger tip knowledge'. They help students become fit for practice, fit for purpose and fit for award by the time they complete their programme.
Each placement provides students with educational opportunities to develop their professional craft knowledge through: observing good practice
engaging in good practice alongside a mentor and other practitioners practicing under the more distant supervision of a mentor or other practitioner.
However, learning professional craft knowledge is not achieved through observation and practice alone; students also have time to investigate their practice, to study their patients/clients and their carers, to discuss their learning with experienced colleagues and to formulate and reformulate their understanding through writing, discussion and reading.