Carol Dobson Programme Director NHS Education for Scotland

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Carol Dobson Programme DirectorNHS Education
for Scotland

• An international perspective on the transition of
  new nurses into practice

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This presentation will.

• Explore the stimuli which created Flying Start
  NHS, Scotlands national development programme
  for newly qualified nurses, midwives and allied
  health professionals.
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• Describe the design and content of Flying Start
  NHS and consider the transferability of the model
  to other national contexts.
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• Discuss the challenges of implementing Flying
  Start within a national health service and
  outline the strategy to evaluate its
  effectiveness.
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The stimuli for Flying Start NHS

• Recruitment and retention
• Scotlands health policy- Delivering for Health
• New NHS pay and conditions
• Governance agenda

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Magic Beans
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The Aim of Flying Start

• To develop confident, capable practitioners who
  will be effective members of the NHS Scotland
  team

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Project objectives

• To develop a national programme for the first
  year as a newly qualified member of health
  professional staff in NHS Scotland
• To employ new technology, as appropriate, to
  deliver the programme
• To introduce the programme across Scotland
• To support Boards in the implementation of the
  programme

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Ownership by..

• the people who will participate in it
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• the people who will support it
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• and by the employers who will enable it

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Key design features

• It is a national on-line, learner-directed
  development programme
• A development framework to guide newly qualified
  practitioners
• Is based on blended work-based learning,
  supported by mentors
• A community of practice of newly qualified
  practitioners provides peer support and sharing
  of good practice

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Learning Programme

• 10 Learning Units make up the development
  programme.
• Each has an aim and Learning Outcomes.
• Each sub-section contains learning activities.

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Some statistics.

• 2400 newly qualified staff have registered and
  are using Flying Start NHS.
• Web site unique visitors in January 2007 9,242
• Web site page views in January 2007 101,426
• Visitor sessions in January 2007 10,803
• Average page views per session 9.39

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Implementation Challenges

• The usual suspects
• time for learning
• access to IT / good learning
  environments
• mentor capacity
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• Early sign up to the programme
• Capacity issues within the service
• Making decisions about existing programmes
• Supporting staff to do things differently

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Summary of benefits

• Newly qualified nurses and midwives have direct
  access to contempory learning resources.
• National benchmark for all newly qualified staff
  in Scotland
• Mentors can follow the structure offered by the
  learning programme
• Managers can accurately predict time and resource
  
• Improved recruitment, retention and career
  development

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Interim Feedback

• What they like.
• Generally well liked website
• Programme offers good structure
• for development
• Access to on-line resources good
• On-line community helpful

• Improvements needed
• More information needed for mentors
• Clarity about expectations re local programmes
  and FS
• Access to IT/ internet can be problematic
• More information from employers

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What we hope to find out.

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• The aim of the evaluation is to evaluate the
  impact and effectiveness of Flying Start NHS in
  supporting the recruitment, retention, confidence
  and skills development of newly qualified nurses,
  midwives and allied health professionals within
  NHS Scotland.

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At the launch..

• We want to nurture our young, even though our
  newly qualified staff increasingly have lots of
  life experiences and are generally more mature
  individuals. I want them to see a career in NHS
  Scotland as something positive.
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• I want us to be world leaders in this regard, and
  I think we are well on the way thanks to the
  introduction of this programme
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• Paul Martin CNO Scotland
• January 2006

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