Direct patient contacts of dietetic students during their final clinical placement Torres, Susan, Winter, Jane, Matters, Helen and Nowson, Caryl 2002, Direct patient contacts of dietetic students during their final clinical placement, Nutrition & dietetics, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 18-22. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads torres-directpatientcontacts-2002.pdf Published version application/pdf 400.33KB 150 Title Direct patient contacts of dietetic students during their final clinical placement Author(s) Torres, Susan orcid.org/0000-0002-2599-1934 Winter, Jane Matters, Helen Nowson, Caryl orcid.org/0000-0001-6586-7965 Journal name Nutrition & dietetics Volume number 59 Issue number 1 Start page 18 End page 22 Publisher Dietitians Association of Australia Place of publication Deakin, A.C.T. Publication date 2002-03 ISSN 1446-6368 Keyword(s) clinical placement dietetics education students computerised Summary Direct student-patient contacts, during the professional clinical placement of a Master of Nutrition and Dietetics course, were collected and analysed for the first time using a computerised method. In the final eight-week hospital placement, 26 dietetic students submitted data on direct patient contacts which included: dietetic activities (e.g. assessing, counselling and reviewing); the primary nutritional condition of the patient (e.g. type 2 diabetes and liver disease); and the time spent in contact with patients. The most common dietetic activities were reviews, followed by collection of dietary information and counselling. The most common nutritional condition encountered by students was an inadequate nutrient intake, followed by patients receiving enteral nutrition. Contact time with patients increased over the placement, with proportionately more time spent by students seeing patients independently than when being observed by supervising dietitians. The data collected provided valuable informa tion on the amount of time spent by students in direct patient contacts, the range of dietetic activities undertaken and the amount of time student activities were directly observed. This information will be useful in the development of benchmarks for clinical skill development, hospital and university staff planning and the assessment of the impact of any changes to the format of student placement experience in the clinical setting. Notes Reproduced with the specific permission of the copyright owner. Language eng Field of Research 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2002, Dietitians Association of Australia Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30001512 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education Faculty of Health Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition School of Health Sciences Higher Education Research Group Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 04 Dec 2008, 12:29:33 EST Wed, 26 Aug 2009, 11:03:00 EST Wed, 26 Aug 2009, 11:27:30 EST Wed, 26 Aug 2009, 11:29:56 EST Wed, 26 Aug 2009, 13:49:58 EST Wed, 26 Aug 2009, 14:06:35 EST Fri, 11 Dec 2009, 11:33:50 EST Mon, 22 Aug 2011, 09:51:51 EST Tue, 04 Jun 2013, 11:05:25 EST Wed, 02 Jul 2014, 14:18:47 EST Fri, 17 Oct 2014, 08:07:42 EST Mon, 04 Dec 2017, 13:31:49 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 13:05:13 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1346 Abstract Views, 150 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 07:59:01 EST