Successful clinical student placements help recruit and retain future team members while strengthening the people working in LTC and the sector. The resources contained on this page support students, preceptors and LTC homes through the stages of placements to help assure positive experiences for everyone.
Preparing for placements
- Supporting inclusion in LTC
- Becoming a Preceptor: A leadership-building opportunity
- Personal readiness self-assessment – student
- Personal readiness self-assessment – other team members
- Readiness assessment – LTC homes
- Three key approaches to learning
- Learner Roadmap: Focus your learning
- What to include in an affiliation agreement
- Sample student placement coordinator description
- Nursing student orientation package
- Tips for LTC homes: Partnering with colleges and universities
- Busting myths about nursing in LTC
- Ontario CLRI website The Living Classroom
- Virtual Education Catalogue for LTC homes
Delivering placements
- REAP clinical practice tool
- Person-centred care
- LTC teamwork
- Dementia care – PSW
- Dementia care – nurses
- Age-related changes – PSW
- Age-related changes – nurses
- Student orientation checklist
- Ontario CLRI website LTC orientation for incoming support
- Ontario CLRI website Infection Protection and Control (IPAC) in LTC
Evaluating placements
- Debriefing model
- Placement program evaluation tool
- Ontario CLRI website Resources