An evaluation to determine new or revised practice support model(s) for undergraduate Nursing and Midwifery students and newly qualified staff, across acute and community settings.

d to develop new or revised practice support model(s) for undergraduate nursing and midwifery students and newly qualified staff, across acute and community settings. Following the introduction of the Registration/Diploma in Nursing Studies programme in Ireland in 1994, the post of clinical placemen

t coordinator (CPC) was created on an experimental basis to support student nurses, coordinate and assist nurse tutors, ward sisters and staff nurses in relation to the students’ clinical placements (Drennan, 2002). The degree programme was