Transcript Summary of Outcomes of Approval & Monitoring Activities

Summary of Outcomes of
Approval & Monitoring
Activities
2005-2006
Barbara Bradley
Professional Officer NIPEC
Introduction
NIPEC’s quality assurance activities are based
on
• NMC standards for course approval and
monitoring.. and
• DHSSPS Framework for monitoring of non NMC
regulated education and practice development
(piloted during 2005-2006)
Approval of NMC regulated programmes 2005-2006
• The Beeches In-service Education Consortium
Return to Midwifery Practice Programme
• University Of Ulster
Pre-registration nursing programme (adult and mental
health)
• Queen’s University Belfast
Pre-registration nursing programme (adult, mental
health, learning disability & children’s)
• Queen’s University Belfast
Overseas nurses’ programme
Monitoring NMC regulated programmes 2005-2006
Monitoring activities’ four key themes
• The importance of clinical placement experience
• Ongoing developments in partnership-working
between education & service
• Increased involvement of service provider
expertise to programme planning and delivery
• Taking account of the education providers’ own
annual reporting processes
Monitoring of NMC regulated programmes
2005-2006
NIPEC samples a range of programmes in each
monitoring year to meet NMC and DHSSPS
requirements
QUB programmes
• Pre-reg midwifery (three year & shortened)
• Lecturer / Practice Educator programme
UU programmes
• Community programmes
• Lecturer & Practice Educator Programmes
NIPEC monitoring activities includes
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Analysis of education providers’ annual reports
Attendance at course committees
Meetings / discussions with external examiners
Meetings with students
Meetings with lecturers and course directors
Meetings with senior managers (education)
Meetings with senior service managers, ward managers
and mentors
• Attendance at education / service liaison meetings
• Observation of sample of practice placement audits
• Analysis of course documentation
Summary of outcomes of monitoring NMC regulated
programmes 2005-2006
• From data reviewed, evidence was generally
positive and found that the programmes
monitored continued to meet NMC
requirements.
• External examiners reported favourably on all
the programmes monitored.
• Service and education partners continue to
collaborate in programme development and
delivery
NIPEC Expert Education Partners
• Partners recruited from
learning disability, mental
health, children’s, midwifery
and adult nursing
• Training is ongoing
• All partners were involved
with NIPEC officers in
approval and monitoring
activities during 2005-2006
• The additional expertise
provided by partner input is
invaluable
• Recruitment of new expert
education partners in 2007
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NMC programme monitoring 2005-2006:
Areas for enhancement and action
Variability in the quality of mentorship support
was identified as an ongoing issue
Link lecturer support in some pre-reg community
placements requires further strengthening
Some midwife mentors in new placement areas
experienced some difficulties; resolved by
ongoing support from link lecturers
Involvement with link supervisors of midwives
has been strengthened
Practice Learning
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A sample of practice placement audits were
observed across nursing and midwifery
settings
Link lecturer systems continue to develop
More consistent input from service mangers
observed
Variation continues in the numbers of students
similar clinical areas support
Mentorship preparation and support requires
ongoing development
QA of DHSSPS commissioned programmes /
practice development activities
(piloting of the new system during 2005-2006)
• New monitoring tool / system developed
• Piloting involved monitoring one programme
from each education provider and a practice
development activity in one HPSS Trust
• Evaluation of the process resulted in some minor
changes to the monitoring tool but confirmed the
tool to be valid and reliable
• Full implementation of the process will
commence in 2006-2007
Conclusion
• NIPEC continues to develop systems to meet
NMC programme approval and monitoring
requirements
• New developments to monitor non NMC /
DHSSPS commissioned programmes and
activities
• Ongoing developments in the NIPEC Expert
Education Partners’ input into QA activities
• NIPEC continues to support service and
education providers with regard to the
implementation of the new NMC standards to
support learning and assessment in practice