The transition from nursing student to nursing intern can be exciting, stressful and challenging. To facilitate this, the Department of Nursing Education Services (NES) partnered with CIME to offer a two-week Boot Camp for newly hired 145 Trainee Nurse Interns (TNIs) from December 2019 to January 2020.
This Boot Camp is the first of its kind for TNIs. It aims to ‘level up’ and ‘iron-out’ disparities within the group, to establish baseline competencies in the clinical workplace.
During the two week period, TNIs practiced assessment, evaluation, and proper nursing care while at the same time learned the institution’s procedures, equipment, and documentation protocols. Moreover, they were able to practice caring for patients in simulated life-threatening situations.
Sana Gul, joining AKU as TNI said: "The Boot Camp helped us to revise and refresh critical nursing skills and concepts that we learned throughout four years of nursing school. Signing off of different nursing skills including medical technology was a need of the hour before we start our internship and this camp really helped us develop expertise on all those devices we would use in the hospital."
Herika Bano, joining AKU as TNI said: "This camp was very beneficial. One of the best things about this camp was simulation which helped me out to integrate my knowledge into practice and make me able to gain confidence to work in the hospital.”
The Boot Camp was a massive help in preparing TNIs so that they can manage their workload, stress levels, deal with medical emergencies and provide the quality and safe care to patients.
The transition from nursing student to nursing intern can be exciting, stressful and challenging. To facilitate this, the Department of Nursing Education Services (NES) partnered with CIME to offer a two-week Boot Camp for newly hired 145 Trainee Nurse Interns (TNIs) from December 2019 to January 2020.
This Boot Camp is the first of its kind for TNIs. It aims to ‘level up’ and ‘iron-out’ disparities within the group, to establish baseline competencies in the clinical workplace.
During the two week period, TNIs practiced assessment, evaluation, and proper nursing care while at the same time learned the institution’s procedures, equipment, and documentation protocols. Moreover, they were able to practice caring for patients in simulated life-threatening situations.
Sana Gul, joining AKU as TNI said: "The Boot Camp helped us to revise and refresh critical nursing skills and concepts that we learned throughout four years of nursing school. Signing off of different nursing skills including medical technology was a need of the hour before we start our internship and this camp really helped us develop expertise on all those devices we would use in the hospital."
Herika Bano, joining AKU as TNI said: "This camp was very beneficial. One of the best things about this camp was simulation which helped me out to integrate my knowledge into practice and make me able to gain confidence to work in the hospital.”
The Boot Camp was a massive help in preparing TNIs so that they can manage their workload, stress levels, deal with medical emergencies and provide the quality and safe care to patients.