Abstract
Nursing schools have traditionally relied on inpatient settings as the primary venue for clinical placement for undergraduate courses. However, the availability of clinical placement sites has diminished in recent years for reasons that include faculty retirements, problems with administrative support and coordination in large hospital systems, and intensified competition among health-profession schools for a limited pool of rotation sites (Chesney et al., 2021; American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2022). Clinical placement sites became especially sparse during the COVID-19 pandemic, when many facilities prohibited on-site student instruction (Kaveh et al., 2022; Ridgway et al., 2022). Nursing schools in rural areas were particularly vulnerable, as placements in rural areas were limited even before the pandemic began (Hendrickx et al., 2020).
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Vanessa L. Lugo
(2025)
"Nursing at Summer Camp: Piloting a Novel Clinical Rotation Experience for Undergraduates in Pediatrics,"
CompassPoint: Vol. 35:
No.
2, Article 5.
DOI: 10.34068/CP.35.02.05
Available at:
https://open.clemson.edu/compass_point/vol35/iss2/5
