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Self Directed Study Section.
Within this section you will engage with a number of resources that are essential in understanding your supervision and assessment arrangements. In this section you will find some resources to help you recognise the changes in supervision and assessment in practice arrangements during the emergency period, as well as documents for you to add to your practice assessment documents.
By the end of this self directed study section you will:
Understand what practice supervisor and practice assessor roles entail
NMC Emergency Standards for supervision and assessment
Consider your own practice assessment document and how to use these to gather supportive evidence that you are competent and have successfully completed placement tasks which are set out in Mypad
Each section below will consider one of the above learning outcomes, please explore each section and complete the tasks.
Section 1: The NMC Code
Section 1: The NMC Code
Please start by reading the NMC Emergency Standards (2020), and then Part 2: Standards for student supervision and assessment (2018)
Please start by reading the NMC Emergency Standards (2020), and then Part 2: Standards for student supervision and assessment (2018)
The Emergency Standards for Nursing and Midwifery Education (NMC 2020) have been published. In order to ensure students have the appropriate supervision and support, the NMC have implemented the Standards for Student Supervision and Assessment (NMC 2018, SSSA) for all Nursing and Midwifery Students.
Click on these images to access each document but please remember that the emergency standards are temporary and will no longer apply after the emergency period but the supervision standards will remain in place.
This means some simple adjustments in clinical practice for the duration of the Emergency Standards:
This means some simple adjustments in clinical practice for the duration of the Emergency Standards:
· Supervision: You can work with any Registered Health and Social Care Professional, and they are known as a Practice Supervisor (PS). Their role is to support and facilitate your learning, so they can orientate you to the area, assist you to develop objectives for the shift, work alongside you for your level of practice, verify your reflections, give testimonies and sign clinical hours. Supernumery status will be given to you during your Placement.
· Assessment: the previously used term 'Mentor' has been immediately replaced by the title Practice Assessor (PA). In order to assess your level of knowledge, skills, behaviour and competence, this Nurse or Midwife must have the suitable equivalent qualification for your programme and Full NMC Registration [excluding the Temporary Register]. They must have previously been a Mentor and undertaken training within the Trust to be suitably prepared for the role of Practice Assessor.
You will be allocated a Practice Assessor for a placement or a series of placement. If your Practice Assessor is changed to meet the needs of practice, please tell your Link Lecturer.
· Exceptional circumstances: 'the same person may fulfil the role of Practice Supervisor and Practice Assessor during this emergency period' (NMC 2020). In absolutely exceptional circumstances, you may be assessed by the Nurse or Midwife you have been working alongside, as long as they meet the standard described above.
Section 2: Means of Assessment
Section 2: Means of Assessment
Competency assessment using MyePad
You will be expected to achieve all skills and outcomes by the Placement interview dates. Under the Emergency Standards there are changes to Practice Assessor and Practice Supervisor and their roles/who can carry out which Interviews with you. Please be advised that this may change when the NMC release the Recovery Standards. You will be kept informed of any changes.
Record of Skills and Experience
You will be expected to consistently perform these skills safely and effectively. These skills can be signed by a suitably trained Registered Professional as a Practice Supervisor. Nursing Students will still be required to gather evidence (in PebblePad) of working with other fields of practice and add this to the MyePad for review.
Placement hours:
You are required to complete practice hours, so you must complete time sheets and upload. More guidance will be given on this nearer your final interview dates.
Section 3: Further information
Section 3: Further information
This useful guide from the NMC outlines what practice supervisors do
This useful guide from the NMC outlines what practice assessors do
NHS England website gives some useful advice for your first placement experience
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