Education for practice New roles in practice education

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Education for practice -New roles in practice
education

• Dorothy Armstrong and Colette Ferguson
• Programme Directors
• NHS Education for Scotland

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NES Who we are

• A special Health Board created on 1 April 2002
• Amalgamation of
• National Board for Nursing, Midwifery Health
  Visiting for Scotland (NBS)
• Post Qualification Education Board for
  Pharmacists (PQEB)
• Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and
  Dental Education (SCPMDE)

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Where we are
North Region - Inverness
North Region - Aberdeen
East Region - Dundee
Central Offices and South-east Region - Edinburgh
West Region - Glasgow
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Our Vision Improved patient care by empowering
Scotlands healthcare workforce through
education, training and lifelong learning
Our Mission To design, commission, quality
assure and, where appropriate, provide education
for the NHS workforce
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Our Key Aims

• We will
• extend educational opportunities to all NHS Staff
• ensure educational provision relevant to needs of
  service
• adopt a multi-disciplinary/multi-partner focus to
  our delivery
• deliver a workforce fit for purpose
• bring added value

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We currently support

• Allied Health Professionals (AHPs)
• art therapists, dieticians, occupational
  therapists, orthoptists, orthotists and
  prosthetists, physiotherapists, therapeutic
  radiographers, diagnostic radiographers, speech
  therapists
• Clinical Audiologists
• Clinical Psychologists
• Doctors (acute and primary care)
• Midwives
• Nurses
• Pharmacists

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Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health
Professionals Directorate (NMAHP)
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Committed to

• Investing in Continuing Professional Development
  (CPD)
• Assuring and enhancing the quality of education
  provision
• Providing services for a wide group of
  stakeholders in Scotland

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Practice Education Programme of Work

• New Role Development - Practice Education
• Facilitator
• Student Nurse Capacity
• Mentorship
• Quality Standards for Practice Placement

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Quality standards for practice placements

• Published 2003
• Awareness
• Audit /Evaluation

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new roles.from this
Practice education facilitators
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Practice education facilitators.to this
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Practice education facilitators

• Drivers
• Funding
• Posts

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Whole systems approach to

• Creating an improved learning environment
• Enhancing the quality of the practice learning
• experience
• Facilitating learning

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Purpose of the new role

• Primarily
• To enhance and support the role of mentor.
• To contribute to the clinical learning
  environment by providing support, educational
  input and development activities for mentors,
  students and staff.

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Aim to

• Maximise the number of student nurses and
• midwives who can be supported in clinical
• practice
• Ensure student experience is of the highest
• quality and enables greatest benefit from the
• individual clinical learning experience
• Ensure support and supervision for staff engaged
• in CPD/educational programmes
  

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The Clinical Learning Environment
OTHER ROLES
JOINT APPOINTMENTS
PRACTICE EDUCATORS
PRACTICE EDUCATION FACILITATORS
MENTORS and PRECEPTORS
Practice Education Roles Pathway
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Development plan

• Practice Education Facilitators
• Mentors
• Interprofessional Activity

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Future

• Response to NMC Consultation
• Strengthen Regional Development
• Strengthen Interprofessional Activity

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Contact details

• dorothy.armstrong_at_nes.scot.nhs.uk
• Tel [phone]