If high-quality, person-centred care is to be provided for older people with complex needs, it is essential that nurse education should aim to extend students’ knowledge and skills in long-term care, and integrated health and social care. Northumbria University, local care homes and NHS organisations have collaborated to develop integrated, cross-sector practice placements that support this learning for nursing students. While there have been challenges in developing these placements, initial feedback is positive, suggesting the placements promote improved interorganisational working and learning for staff as well as students.
Nursing Older People. doi: 10.7748/nop.2018.e1007
Correspondencejuliana2.thompson@northumbria.ac.uk
Peer reviewThis article has been subject to external double-blind review and has been checked for plagiarism using automated software
Conflict of interestNone declared
AcknowledgementsWe would like to acknowledge the support of Prestwick Care, Four Seasons Health Care, Barchester Healthcare, Gateshead Vanguard and North Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group for supporting this programme. Thank you to Catherine Burn, Jess Hawthorn, Ruth Marshall, Ruth Todd, Sarah Wears and Nadine Cosgrove for consenting to the use of quotes from their feedback for the purposes of this article
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Received: 11 October 2017
Accepted: 22 November 2017
Published online: 29 January 2018
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