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When the pandemic hit in March 2020, hospitals and clinical facilities across the Valley had to close their doors to nursing students.
The break gave leaders at Arizona State University’s Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation time and the opportunity to rethink the student nursing experience.
Prior to the pandemic, students would rotate between numerous facilities in the Valley, including Banner Health, Abrazo Health, OASIS Hospital and HonorHealth.
Here’s how the team model works: Teams of eight students — there are nine teams in total — work in a single facility throughout the school year rather than jump from one facility to another.
Students have input as to what type of facility they would like to work in, based on their interests, geography, populations they want to serve, etc.
They invest a lot of energy into training students, but they never get to see the students develop.
It creates a continuity, which creates a better buy-in for the students and our nurses.
“The experience wasn’t as rich as it could be because they weren’t really delving into it as in depth as they could,” Bednarek said.
Joseph’s, Millard said the ability to develop deeper relationships with the professional nurses and doctors at the hospital has opened up conversations regarding medical care she might not have had when moving from facility to facility.
“For physicians and staff, they get to know the students very well,” said Alexis Warren, education specialist at St.
“We’re interviewing them the entire time, and they’re interviewing us the entire time.
ASU student Parker Shumway said the students on his team are in constant communication about what they’ve learned, the next unit on the rotation list and what the doctors and nurses are like.
“We’re really able to get the inside scoop of what we’re getting ourselves into,” he said.
Top photo: Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation Instructor Dawn Bedwell goes over an infusion pump with a group of nursing students at the Mercado building in downtown Phoenix on March 18.