Keep your CPD up to date
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KEEP YOUR CPD
UP TO DATE
Jane Redfern Jones
What is C.P.D.?
• Continual Professional Development (CPD) can be
defined as:
• “the conscious updating of professional knowledge and
the improvement of professional competence throughout
a person’s working life. It is a commitment to being
professional, keeping up to date and continuously seeking
to improve.” The Chartered Institute of Professional Development 2000.
CPD is…
An opportunity to update your career opportunities
Career development- Because its goal is to improve
personal performance and enhance career progression.
a commitment to being professional, keeping up to date
and continuously seeking to improve
Lifelong Learning
The Prep CPD standard
• This standard is about the CPD of registered nurses and
midwives. To meet it, they must:
• undertake at least 35 hours of learning activity relevant to
their practice every three years
• maintain a personal professional profile of their learning
activity
• comply with any requests to audit how they have met
these requirements.
Achieving CPD
• Post Registration Education- University courses
• Attending conferences
• On the job training, in-house training courses.
• Secondments
• Shadowing, covering colleagues, acting up into a senior
role.
Achieving CPD
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Mentoring
Reflective practice
Reading professional Journals - Nursing Standard
RCN Forums
Working across boundaries eg link nurse
Developing a knowledge about national and local health
policies and directives
Getting involved with a local health project
Voluntary work
Producing patient information leaflets
Writing an article for publication
Producing a website
Useful links
• http://nursingstandard.rcnpublishing.co.uk/learning-zone
• www.rcn.org.uk/development/learning/learningzone
• www.open.ac.uk
• www.openuniversity.co.uk/rcn
• www.open.edu/openlearn
• www.bsygroup.co.uk
Create a Portfolio
• All nurses are meant to keep a CPD portfolio as part of
their PREP requirements.
• Nurses need to recognise opportunities for recording
evidence of learning.
• A Portfolio must show evidence of reflection on practice or
reflection of an article that you have read.
• It must show that you recognise your learning needs and
any gaps that exist in your knowledge and skills - what
you need to know or do to enhance your practice. What
are your professional development needs?
A portfolio…
• serves as a record of your clinical experience and journey
from novice practitioner to expert.
• Helps in an interview: those who have developed a
portfolio will be in a better position to articulate their
thoughts and feelings about practice and give detailed
examples of how they have made a difference.
A portfolio…
• Should be thought of as a toolbox. In it should go all the
tools of the nursing trade: skills, knowledge, experience,
attitudes, beliefs and the additional bits and pieces that
we accumulate on our nursing journey, such as feedback
and references.
What should be in your portfolio
toolbox?
• Up-to-date copy of CV
• Critical incident review
• Personal and professional feedback
• Defining moments - reflection
• Making a difference - reflection
• What’s going on? Health policy and politics
• Action plan for developing skills and knowledge
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Reflect on Feedback
• You can learn much from positive feedback and
(constructive) negative feedback so include any
comments from line managers, colleagues and possibly
patients and carers.
• Reflect on the feedback and consider what, if anything,
you would do differently next time.
Keep up to date
• do a little at a time and try to be consistent.
• Don’t view portfolio work as being separate from your
working life. Keep the portfolio at work rather than on a
shelf at home and discuss some of the content in clinical
supervision or with a colleague.
Stay positive
• Don’t dwell too much on things that go wrong in your
practice - no one is perfect and the important thing is to
show what you have learnt.
• A portfolio should demonstrate your progress and
achievements, so view the process of developing one as
an opportunity rather than something negative.
Make use of technology
• The RCN provides an online service where you can
maintain a portfolio.
• You can also manage your portfolio on your personal
computer.
Thank you for coming
• www.janeredfernjones.com