Pre-registration Management Review

1
Pre-registration Management Review

• Survey feedback

2
The Process

• NES first ran the survey for the
  Pre-registration Management process in 2010.
• The current survey was revised for 2011
• The survey has been completely redeveloped for
  2012
• The above work has been overseen by the survey
  working group whose membership was drawn from
  Higher Education Institutions, Practice Education
  Facilitators, Practice Education Co-ordinator and
  the NMAHP research and information officer.
• The development of next years survey has
  included a rewrite of all survey questions and
  then a period of piloting with students/mentors
  and charge nurses. For 2012, the mentor and
  charge nurse survey will be combined.

3
The Primary Purpose of the Survey

• The purpose of the survey is to gather views of
  3rd
• year student Nurses and midwives, their mentors
  and
• the charge nurses regarding the educational
• environment in practice and the preparedness of
• students, on completion of their programme, for
  their
• role as registered practitioners.
• The results of the survey are used as part of the
• information that informs the annual reviews of
• institutions providing pre-registration nursing
  and
• midwifery across Scotland.

4
The 2011 Survey Results

• Increase in responses
• Nurses and Midwives 30.5
• Mentors 137.9
• Charge Nurses 36.5
• The results presented over the next few slides
  are
• across all universities and their board areas.

5
The 2011 Survey Results (2)

• Student survey
• 84.1 of students rated positively the value of
  their education programme in preparing them for
  practice.
• Two thirds of students were generally satisfied
  with all aspects of clinical practice rating
  these as good or excellent.
• 60.9 of students had received the QSPP and 92.7
  found them helpful.
• Nearly all students reported having a named
  mentor (98.0)
• Less satisfactory aspects of placements were
  perceived to be a lack of support form their
  HEI(31.2) access to learning resources (26.7)
  and regular feedback from their mentor(14.9)

6
The 2011 Survey Results (3)

• Mentor Survey
• 91.9 reported receiving formal preparation form
  their HEI to be a
• mentor.
• 95.4 reported that they had regular mentoring
  updates.
• 93.8 had regular contact with a PEF.
• 80.7 rated their capacity to provide supervision
  for students as good or excellent.
• However their were issues with regard to time in
  terms of preparation, induction and assessment.
• They rated the enthusiasm and motivation of the
  students as good or excellent.

7
The 2011 Survey Results (4)

• Charge Nurse Survey
• Most charge nurses were happy with the notice
  they received prior to the student arrival (68.6
  rated this as good or excellent)
• 95.2 reported having a linked PEF.
• Charge Nurses rated the enthusiasm (68.6) and
  motivation(67.2) of the students as good or
  excellent.

8
Future Developments

• Completely re-developed survey for 2012
• Combined mentor and charge nurse survey
• More robust analysis of the qualitative comments
• Possibility of some kind of trend analysis in the
  future
• More robust ways to increase respondents to be
  considered
• Increased feedback opportunities and links with
  work to support the undergraduate programmes to
  be explored.