NMC Slide Template

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Protecting the public through professional
standards
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Standards to support learning and assessment in
practice (NMC, 2006)
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• Single developmental framework to support
  learning and assessment in practice
• Consists of standards for educational roles plus
  a series of processes to strengthen learning and
  assessment
• Published in August 2006, for implementation in
  September 2007
• Integrates recommendations from Learning and
  Assessment in practice consultation (2004),
  Review of Fitness for Practice at the Point of
  Registration consultation (2005) and results of
  study commissioned by NMC, Failing Students
  (Duffy, 2003)

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Developmental Framework

• Outcomes from eight domains written for four
  stages
• Registrants (clause 6.4 of Code)
• Mentors sign-off mentors
• Practice Teachers
• Teachers
• Underpinned by five principles

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Mentor

• An NMC registrant who, following successful
  completion of an NMC approved mentor preparation
  programme (or equivalent) has achieved the
  knowledge, skills and competence to meet the
  mentor standard (leads to entry on a local
  register)
• Students on NMC approved
• - pre-registration nursing education
  programmes
• - specialist practice programmes
• must be supported and assessed in practice by
  mentors
• Students on NMC approved midwifery programmes
  must be supported and assessed by sign-off
  mentors

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Practice Teacher

• An NMC registrant who will normally have
  previously fulfilled the NMC requirements to
  become a mentor and who has received further
  preparation (through successful completion of an
  NMC approved PT preparation programme or
  equivalent) to achieve the knowledge, skills and
  competence required to meet the NMC practice
  teacher standard (leads to entry on a local
  register)
• Students on NMC approved specialist community
  public health nursing programmes must be
  supported and assessed in practice by practice
  teachers

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Sign-off Mentor

• Mentors/ practice teachers who are designated to
  be able to sign-off proficiency at the end of a
  programme
• Must meet additional criteria (leads to
  annotation on a local register)
• All midwifery mentors to be sign-off mentors
• All practice teachers to meet the additional
  criteria to be able to sign-off proficiency

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Teacher

• An NMC registrant who, following successful
  completion of an NMC approved teacher preparation
  programme (or equivalent) has achieved the
  knowledge, skills and competence required to meet
  the teacher standard (leads to a recorded entry
  on the NMC register)
• The NMC teacher standard is mandatory for those
  registrants who are teachers employed in higher
  education who support students on NMC approved
  programmes

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Local Registers for Mentors and Practice Teachers

• Placement providers keep an up-to-date local
  register of current mentors and practice
  teachers.
• (Provides evidence of sufficient practice
  teachers and mentors, (including those meeting
  additional requirements) who meet the NMC
  standards to support learning and assessment in
  practice for NMC approved programmes.)

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Review and maintenance of mentor/practice teacher
qualifications

• Annual updating (including an opportunity to meet
  and explore assessment and supervision issues
  with peers)
• Triennial review of all mentors and practice
  teachers -
• demonstrate ongoing currency and standards
• Arrangements for addressing concerns, adding and
  removing from mentor/practice teacher register

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Strengthening the Mentor/ Practice Teacher role

• 40 of a students time should be spent being
  supervised by a mentor or practice teacher
• In addition, sign-off mentor to spend one hour
  per week on reflective learning, feedback and
  record keeping with student during the final
  placement

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Strengthening Assessment

• Due regard must be applied to assessment of
  outcomes/ proficiency
• (i.e. those who make judgements about whether a
  student has achieved the required standards of
  proficiency for safe, effective practice must be
  from the same part/ sub part of the register as
  that which the student intends to enter)
• Ongoing achievement record
• Use of simulation where learning opportunities
  are limited