Transcript Introducing the OU-RCN Strategic Alliance

Maximising the impact of
continuing professional
education on practice
Liz Clark, Jan Draper and Shelagh Sparrow
Faculty of Health and Social Care, The Open
University and the OU–RCN Strategic Alliance
Workshop objectives
To provide a brief overview of the development of
the Impact on Practice (ImP) framework
To demonstrate the online version of the
framework
To interrogate the framework and discuss its
potential use by healthcare educators (and other
stakeholders) when designing, delivering and
reviewing post-registration programmes
Workshop outline
Introductions
Overview of the ImP project
Group work to interrogate the paper-based and
online versions of the framework, prior to its early
release and its evaluation phase
Feedback
Original aim of the ImP project:
To develop a tool to evaluate the impact of
continuing professional education (CPE) on
healthcare practice
The project was carried out between 2006 and 2008 and
funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for
England (HEFCE), as part of its Higher Education
Innovation Fund (HEIF3)
Context
Masses of anecdotal evidence of the benefits of post
registration learning on nursing practice
 Political drivers
• Investment in continuing professional education (CPE)
• Rhetoric of the benefits of CPE/lifelong learning
• Evidence-based and outcomes-driven culture in
healthcare services and needs-led education
• Lack of evidence of the added-value of CPE
• Vulnerability to cut-backs in funding (e.g. 2006/07)
Context (cont.)
 Limitations of current evidence
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Small-scale and short-term studies in one locality
Over-reliance on learner satisfaction
Retrospective methods (errors of recall and bias)
Benefits to service users are assumed, but rarely
assessed directly
In-depth conversations with key
stakeholders about the proposed project:
• employers
• patients
• students
According to stakeholders, what is
needed is an approach that is…
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Easy to understand and use
Not research
Not programme-specific
Dynamic
Cost-effective
Our approach
Literature review (health and social care and
education literature); emerging themes:
• Organisational culture
• Role of the manager
• Link between education provider and employer
Contributions from an UK-wide Expert Advisory
Group
Two interactive conference presentations (one
national and one international) and a symposium
Our approach (cont.)
Conversations with key stakeholders to
develop/refine the framework:
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commissioners of education
managers
health and social care educators
service users/representatives from patient
organisations
• learners
The ImP Framework
 The four core domains of the ImP framework are:
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education provider
learner
manager
organisation
The patient/service user voice is reflected across all four
domains
The ImP framework
Time
Impact on Practice
Manager
Time
Learner
CPE
Time
Pre-selection
Selection
During CPE
Organisation
Post CPE
Impact on Practice
Time
© The Open University/Royal College of Nursing 2008
Education provider
Our journey so far…
• Seizing the moment
• Upstream thinking
• Complexity vs ease of understanding/use
Next steps…
• Interrogation of framework by expert panel
• Evaluation of this untested theoretical framework in a
range of healthcare settings
Any questions?
Contact details:
Liz Clark: [email protected]
Jan Draper: [email protected]
Group work