Evaluation of a Faculty-Led Clinical Model to Meet Pediatric Preventive Care Competencies Through a Pediatric Mobile Clinic.
Quinones, Saribel G.; Foronda, Cynthia L.
Why this matters
Nursing programs short on pediatric placement sites can treat a mobile clinic as a teaching site. A pre-post evaluation of family nurse practitioner students on a pediatric mobile clinic found improvement across all seven pediatric preventive care competencies.
Abstract
Limited pediatric primary care clinical placement sites have made it difficult for family nurse practitioner (FNP) students to meet pediatric preventive clinical competencies. This project evaluated a faculty-led clinical model through a pediatric mobile clinic. A pre-post evaluation design was used to evaluate student perceptions of their achievement of competencies. Students demonstrated improvement in all seven competencies, suggesting a faculty-led clinical model through a pediatric mobile clinic may be an effective way to improve pediatric clinical competencies.