Are you ready to encounter foreign patients with infectious diseases? : developing nursing students’ language skills through educational co-creation

Abstract

An educational co-creation project can provide valuable information about the current needs in working life and engage students in a meaningful way thus promoting their learning outcomes significantly. The nursing students at Laurea University of Applied Sciences were involved in an educational co-creation project whose aim was to increase their knowledge of infectious diseases and to develop the contents of their language course “English for Health Care”. The project was carried out through innovative methods: a learning café and online educational material for professionals in the field. This collaboration involved the infectious diseases ward of Aurora Hospital, nursing students and lecturers at Coventry University as well as an infection prevention and control practitioner at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire.