Thinking Outside the Box - Ideas for Students

Student - "How can I provide evidence for assessment in addition to reflection, to support sign off?"

The following ideas may be useful to help students in gathering appropriate evidence to support sign off of proficiencies:

• Videoing a clinical skills or simulation session of themselves performing or demonstrating the skill, with accompanying narrative around knowledge, skill and values

• Peer assessment in simulation using a checklist

• Evidence of engagement with clinicalskills.net or other online learning resources (all students have free access to clinicalskills.net as part of their course)

• Engagement with the Clinical Skills Repository, sharing this with your PA to assist assessment

• Engagement with - and reflection on - self-directed learning opportunities at SHU

• Micro teaching to colleagues, peers, patients, evidenced with reflection and/or testimony

• Feedback from patients

Practice Supervisor - "We don't provide this skill/experience in this team, how can we support the student to gather evidence for the skill?"

• Support the student to visit other areas within the trust that provide the skill/experience, they can ask for testimony

• You can provide an opportunity to use simulation, most HEI's will support this, in many areas they may be able to support you with scenario writing and equipment

• Are there any Service Users in your area that have been involved in that skill/experience, could they work with the student to produce a patient information leaflet or other materials

• Ask the student to produce some area based information for your particular area, create a teaching pack/resource, put together patient information/ accessible information

• Create a poster aimed at Service Users/Family/ Staff/Students

• Create and deliver a microteach to other students/staff

• Ask them to do a presentation about the subject matter and its links to your field of practice

If you have other inventive or creative ideas to help students in demonstrating  and collecting evidence to support sign off of proficiencies we'd love to hear from you! Please get in touch with us using our contact details on the Contact Us page to share your ideas. We might be able to post them here to help other students, Supervisors and Assessors!