Practice Immersion: Collaborative Nursing for Maternal Health Workforce

Abstract

Nursing students undertaking their masters and doctoral studies are expected to take a practice immersion course. The practice is an individualized practice entitling and exposing the student to the real-world nursing environment. As a requirement of the course, students are expected to identify areas of interest to them and design immersion as posited by their defined focus area. In reference to this, my practice immersion project was based on collaborative nursing. The primary objectives of the study were expected to review the content of the existing modules to facilitate practice immersion and utilization for the targeted population. The project also anticipates to quip and expose nurses to collaborative nursing practice building their competencies in professional. The study four out that the immersion imparted the nurse with skills in developing end-module quizzes for the validation of content comprehension and acquisition of knowledge. The immersion experiences substantially implicated their perception of nursing, nursing process ethics as well as morals. To note collaborative nursing and professional partnership are increasingly promoted so as to improve the nursing competencies and provision of quality health care.