POWER POINT PRESENTATION ON ROTATION PLAN

Rotation plan creating for nursing students for their clinical posting

1. Overall plan of rotation of all students in a particular educational institution, showing the placement of the students total programme includes both theory and practice denoting the study block, partial block, placement of students in clinical blocks, team nursing, examinations, vacation, co- curricular activities, etc.

2. It is prepared well in advance for the whole year so that it gives a complete and clear picture about students placement either in theory or field during an academic session. For each year, it can be prepared separately and for total programme one can be prepared so that every faculty will be aware of students placements. Teacher should follow the Indian Nursing Council syllabus as a guideline for preparing a rotation.

3. DEFINITION: The master rotation plan is an overall plan of rotation of all the students in a particular educational institution showing the placement of the students belonging to various groups/ classes in clinical nursing as well as community nursing fields denoting the duration of such placement together with placement of theoretical teaching blocks/ periods.

4. PURPOSES: 1.Availability of an advance plan before implementation of curriculum activities during an academic year for the entire programme . 2.All concerned are aware of the placement of students in clinical fields. 3.Co-ordination becomes more effective when theory, practice correlates and integrity exists.

5. 4.Help the students and teacher to prepare themselves for working in the areas. 5.Any modifications are required based on situations concerned, collaboration between the faculty and service staff can be made for smooth running of organizational activities and meeting the objectives of educational programme . 6. Evaluation of the programme is more effective.

6. 7. The faculty members and nursing service are in a position to make tentative advance plans for their leave or vacation without jeoparding the teaching- learning activities.

7. FEATURES OF MASTER ROTATION PLAN: It is prepared in advance for the whole year so that it gives a complete and clear picture about students clinical and field placement during an academic session. The plan includes the period of vacation, teaching block, preparation time / week for examination, examination weeks etc. The master rotation plan for each year can be prepared saperatedly and then put up in a combined chart, so that all teachers are aware of the students placements.

8. 4. Overlapping in a particular area can be noted and appropriate action can be taken through viewing the rotation plan in a glance of each year. 5. INC syllabus should be taken, a guideline in preparing a rotation.

9. PRINCIPLES OF MASTER ROTATION PLAN: Plan in accordance with the curriculum plan for the entire course/ progrmme . Plan in advance for each student in the class for all years. Plan the activities by following maxims of teaching. Post the students based on their background preparation and the extent of guidance available

10. Select areas that can provide expected learning experience. Plan to build on previous experiences. Acquaint the clinical staff/clinical supervision with clinical objectives and rotation plan. Provide each clinical experience of same duration to all the students. Rotate each student through each learning experience or block. Plan for all students to enter and leave at the same time schedule.

11. CLINICAL ROTATION PLAN Clinical rotation plan is developed so that each student is given the uniform type of clinical experience. CONCEPT AND TYPE: The plan for clinical experience in general plan of the curriculum shows that a class in each year is divided into a number of groups depending upon the size of the class and accordingly each group experiences through the number of clinical areas at regular succession.

12. There can be two to four groups of students and as many number of clinical areas to be rotated through. Such a plan for clinical experience refers to clinical rotation plan. The clinical rotation plans are of three types: a) Master clinical rotation plan: The master clinical rotation plan is the plan which is prepared for all the classes/ groups for all the clinical areas including community health nursing field for the whole year.

13. Master clinical rotation plan can be defined as an overall plan of rotation of all the students in a particular educational institution showing the placement of the students belonging to various classes in groups (10-15 students in a group) in clinical nursing as well as community nursing field denoting the duration of such placement. The master clinical plan is prepared in advance for the whole year so that it gives a complete and clear picture about students’ clinical and field placement during an academic session.

14. This plan may either be prepared as separate plan along with theory teaching blocks/ periods, the period of vacation, preparation time, examination period etc. b) Year/ class wise Rotation plan : The rotation plan for each year/class can be prepared separately . All these can be put up in a combined chart, so that all teachers would be aware of the students’ placement. Overlapping in a particular area, if any, may be noted and action can be taken apropriately .

15. As mentioned earlier teachers need to take (INC) syllabus as the guideline for preparing rotation plan. 3.Internal rotation plan : In each clinical area, the various specific experiences are identified and students in each block of respective clinical area get divided into subgroups accordingly and rotate through each identified experience. This rotation plan refers to internal rotation plan.

16. Factors to be considered in preparing a clinical rotation plan : a) The objective of the course : The objectives of the course needs to be clearly stated so that these can be used as a guideline for planning clinical rotation for all the classes and for specific block of clinical experience. b) Number of students in each class: Since the students will be posted in different clinical areas at different time of the year and the course of study, the placement of optimal number of students in each of these area is important.

17. The number of students in each class will determine the number and size of groups for clinical experiences. There are some areas particularly intensive care unit, coronary care unit where more than 2 or 3 students cannot be posted at a given point of time. c) The number of departments/agencies/areas where students should be given opportunity for giving clinical experience: 1. The size of the department/agency/area of experience in each area/ hospital used for clinical posting,

18. e.g , if the labor room selected for student placement has only four labor beds then more than 2-3 students cannot be posted at a time in the said labor room. d) The duration of experience in each area: This may vary from 2 weeks to twenty weeks in a year. For example, posting in eye ,E.N.T ward is generally for two weeks but that for community health experience is for twenty weeks or more.

19. e) Number of persons available for supervision: This is particularly important because the students need to be given supervised and guided experience to enable them to learn the right way of performing a nursing procedure or make the appropriate nursing interventions for the patients assigned to their care. f) Indian Nursing Council requirements: It has been mentioned earlier that in India the Indian Nursing Council, a statutory body constitute in 1949 empowered to prescribe the curriculum for various nursing programmes .

20. CONCLUSION: It is essential to evaluate a curriculum for it helps in knowing whether the set of objectives have been obtained or not. It also help in knowing if the planned curriculum was ideal enough to prepare a students activities throughout the year which is displayed in a graph.

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