Summary of Outcomes of Approval & Monitoring Activities 2005-2006

							 NMC Standards to Support
Learning and Assessment in
          Practice

          Lesley Barrowman
   Senior Professional Officer NIPEC
New Framework
Developed to give better assurances to NMC
that students undertaking programmes have
been supported and provided with appropriate
supervision and assessment of competency by
practitioners with the necessary knowledge
and competence
Developmental Framework
• Stage 1 - Newly qualified registrant
• Stage 2 - Mentor for pre-registration students
• Stage 3 - Practice Teacher for post-
  registration students
• Stage 4 - Teacher
Assessment of Competence – Pre Registration Nursing

• All students will be assessed during their
  programme by mentors prepared for role
• Students can only be assessed for entry to
  the register (at the end of their programme)
  by sign off mentors or practice teachers
• For midwifery programmes all mentors must
  be sign off mentors
Sign off Mentor
• Sign off mentors must demonstrate
  additional competence
   – Supervised on 3 occasions
   – Clinical currency
   – Understand accountability
• Sign off mentors must have a minimum of
  one hour of protected time each week
• Implemented for students who commence
  programmes from 1 September 2007
Responsibilities of Trusts
• Maintain an up to date register of mentors,
  sign off mentors and practice teachers,
  including appraisal system
• 40% of students time with a mentor/practice
  teacher who must keep records
• Final placement one hour per week with sign
  off mentor
• Make provision for annual updating
• Triennial review of mentors/practice teachers
• Access to support and supervision
Mentor Programmes
• Must enable mentors to meet the required
  outcomes
• Minimum academic level 2
• 10 days, minimum 5 days protected learning
  time
• Learning in academic and practice setting,
  including work-based learning under
  supervision of trained mentor/practice teacher
• AP(E)L up to 100%
• Normally completed within 3 months
Practice Teacher Programmes
• Must enable practice teachers to meet the
  required outcomes
• Minimum academic level 3
• Learning in academic and practice setting,
  including work-based learning under
  supervision of trained practice teacher
• 30 days protected learning time
• AP(E)L up to 100%
• Normally completed within 6 months
Teacher Programmes
• Must enable teachers to meet the required
  outcomes
• One academic year in length
• Minimum academic level post-graduate
• Learning in academic and practice setting,
  including work-based learning under
  supervision of trained practice teacher
• Include 12 weeks teaching practice (360
  hours)
NIPEC Project
DHSSPS has requested that NIPEC project
manages the implementation of the new NMC
standards in Northern Ireland.
NIPEC Project
• Processes must be developed to ensure that
  mentors and practice teachers previously
  prepared for their role and who will be
  supporting students commencing after 1st
  September 2007 meet the new NMC standards

• Placement providers are required to establish
  and maintain an up to date local register of
  mentors and practice teachers, which can be
  accessed by education providers
NIPEC Project
• Placement providers are required to develop and
  implement processes that ensure that mentors
  and practice teachers meet NMC requirements
  for on-going competency and updating

• Placement providers are required to develop
  infrastructures that provide the necessary
  protected time for mentors and practice teachers
  to meet the specified NMC requirements for
  supporting and assessing students in practice
NIPEC Project
• Education providers are required to develop
  systems that ensure the relevant verification of
  students meeting NMC proficiency requirements
  during programmes and at programme
  completion.
• New mentors and practice teachers are prepared
  through programmes developed by service and
  education programme providers that meet new
  NMC standards
• New mentor and practice teacher programmes
  are approved by NMC for provision by NMC
  approved education institutions.
NIPEC Project Aim

     To facilitate service and education
    programme providers in meeting the
       NMC Standards and ensure that
       sufficient mentors and practice
   teachers are in place at 1st September
       2007 to meet NMC requirements
NIPEC Project Objectives
• To ensure that service providers have an
  infrastructure in place that enables them to
  meet NMC standards.
• To ensure that service providers have
  developed a system to enable current
  mentors and practice teachers to be mapped
  against NMC requirements.
• To ensure that service providers develop a
  database for use in each locality to maintain
  a register of mentors and practice teachers,
  accessible to education providers.
NIPEC Project Objectives
• To ensure that service and education
  programme providers have arrangements in
  place for further development of current mentors
  and practice teachers unable to demonstrate
  that they meet NMC standards.
• To work with service and education programme
  providers to ensure that programmes developed
  for mentors and practice teachers meet service
  needs for a regionally developed programme to
  prepare adequate numbers of mentors and
  practice teachers to support students
NIPEC Project
• To ensure that preparation programmes for
  mentors and practice teachers are approved
  in accordance with NMC requirements in a
  timely manner.
• To facilitate the development of quality
  assurance systems that will monitor and
  evaluate the effectiveness of the structures
  and processes implemented to meet NMC
  standards.
• To explore the resource impact of meeting
  NMC requirements.
Methodology
• Appoint a full-time Project Officer
• Set up a Steering Group with responsibility
  for ensuring the project progresses to plan
  and that arrangements to meet the new NMC
  standards are implemented across the HPSS,
  where relevant, the Independent Sector, and
  Education Providers
Methodology
• Set up a Project Group, accountable to the
  Steering Group that will address the
  organisational changes in their nominated
  organisations.

• Implementation of the NMC requirements will
  be realised through the Project Team
  members.
Methodology
• Currently recruiting membership of the Steering
  Group and Project Group Ensuring
  representation from all parts of NMC register to
  include representation from:
   – HPSS Trusts
   – Education Providers
   – Independent Sector
   – DHSSPS
   – NMC members (Steering Group)
   – NIPEC
Methodology

   Underpinning principle is that NIPEC
     will be facilitating the work but the
    ownership and accountability for all
    aspects of the work remains with the
      HPSS, Independent Sector and
     Education Provider Organisations
           working in partnership