Nursing and Midwifery

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Nursing and Midwifery

• Ann Rae Educational Project Manager
• Belinda Emmens Practice Education Co-ordinator

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Background

• NES ePortfolio 26 platforms Nurses/Midwives,
  Medics, Dentists, Pharmacists
• NM pilot
• Funded by SGHD though NES
• Central to NES Digital
• High profile with revalidation

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Example Activity across Scotland

• 5,552 accounts given (at 19th March 2015)
• awareness sessions PE/PEFs
• UWS/NHS AAA pre-registration mental health
• General Practice Nurse programme
• Advance Practice (GGC and Lothian)
• Mentor Prep UWS/RGU

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Sections

• There is ONE ePortfolio for nurses and midwives,
  with one home page, user name and password
• There are three sections-
• Nursing and midwifery career-long
• Mentor preparation
• Mentor CPD
• With aligned functions and specific content to
  support nurses and midwives with different
  aspects of recording, storing and sharing their
  evidence requirements

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Career-long

• Your ePortfolio for your use for your whole
  professional career
• Administered centrally by NES email
  eportfolio.nm_at_nes.scot.nhs.uk
• Belongs entirely to the individual, who can
  select items to share with others
• Can be used to gather, store, download or print
  evidence for
• NMC requirements Prep/revalidation
• KSF development reviews/appraisals
• Career development
• Job applications
• Meetings with peers/supervisors

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Mentor preparation section

• Administered locally by mentor preparation
  programme providers
• Evidence continues belongs to the student
  mentor and can be viewed by HEI named Education
  Lecturer as part of programme delivery,
  verification and quality assurance processes
• Can be used to
• Record mentoring learning time in HEI and
  practice
• Gather evidence of mentoring activities
• Link evidence to NMC mentor domains and outcomes
• Undertake and evidence achievement of sign-off
  mentor status
• Obtain feedback from others
• Confirm/verify achievement of mentor preparation
  programme

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Mentor CPD section

• Administered by NES but increasingly by NHS
  Boards or by
• Belongs entirely to the individual, who can
  select items to share with others
• Can be used to
• Capture mentoring activities no. of students,
  working with students
• Gather evidence of attendance at mentor updates,
  meetings and events
• Link evidence to NMC mentor domains and outcomes
• Self declare each year meeting NMC annual
  updating requirements
• Undertake and evidence achievement of sign-off
  mentor status
• Obtain feedback from others
• Confirm/verify achievement of triennial review

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National support for local implementation

• On-line guides and podcasts
• Getting started and user guides for Career-long
  section
• http//www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/education-and-training/
  by-discipline/nursing-and-midwifery/careers-and-re
  cruitment/nursing-midwifery-career-long-eportfolio
  .aspx
• Getting started and user guides for mentor
  sections
• http//www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/education-and-training/
  by-discipline/nursing-and-midwifery/practice-educa
  tion/mentor-bulletin-publications-and-resources.as
  px

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• Evaluation March 2014

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Agenda for Change band of ePortfolio user
respondents (n173)

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Self reported IT skills (n170)
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Use of ePortfolio (n162)
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Parts of ePortfolio used (n154)
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Usefulness of ePortfolio
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Some challenges...

• IT access. Difficult for staff to access
  e-portfolio where IT access is limited. Many
  staff have minimal IT literacy and this is a
  barrier to them utilising E-Portfolio.
• Staff highlight workload pressures and low
  morale as an inhibiting factor in using e
  portfolio.
• Its a fantastic concept but needs to be easier
  and needs to be taught and sold.

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Positive comments ......

• You can use for whole career and take with you
  and add to it.
• I was able to give the student feedback though
  ePortfolio. ..........it was really
  straightforward to do and technically not
  difficult. I found it a very positive
  experience.
• People see changes coming and the need for
  evidence.
• Staff are aware of revalidation and many see
  E-Portfolio as a method for recording CPD which
  could in the future be shared easily with the NMC
  if requested.

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The Code and revalidationFor everyones
protection
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NMC Revalidation

• Provisional requirements
• 450 hours Practice
• 40 hours CPD (20 of these must include
  participatory learning).
• 5 pieces of practice-related feedback
• Provisional records
• Practice hours
• Reflections on the Code, CPD, and
  practice-related feedback
• Record of CPD
• Professional Development discussion
• Confirmation from third party

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Discussion

• SCEPRN may wish to request an account for their
  own use.
• HEIs may wish to use ePortfolio within the
  Mentor Prep programmes
• Potential to introduce to students as a career
  long approach for professional development and
  revalidation