Modernising Nursing Careers

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The Future of

Pre-registration Nursing Education

NIPEC workshop 26th November 2007

Lesley Barrowman

Modernising Nursing Careers (DOH 2006)Modernising Nursing Careers is a Four UK county initiative.

Aim is to secure a nursing workforce equipped with relevant competencies: work is around 4 key areas

– Develop a competent and flexible workforce– Update career pathways and career choices– Prepare nurses to lead in a changed system– Modernise image of nursing and nursing

careers to address a range of priorities and actions

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Purpose of the workshop

• Engender debate• Help to formulate opinions• Provide feedback to help prepare organisational

responses

Modernising Nursing Careers

There are a number of work-streams associated with Modernising Nursing Careers.The NMC is taking the lead for the review of pre-registration nursing education and has published a consultation document, influenced by:– Nursing: Towards 2015 (Longley et al 2007) –

summary circulated, copy of full document tabled

– Fitness for practice and purpose (UKCC 1999) – previously circulated and discussed at July workshop

Modernising Nursing Careers

New nurses must be enabled to care even more effectively:

• In a complex and diverse society where social inequality exists

• Inside and outside hospital and across health and social care

• For an increasing older population• For those with long-term conditions• In supporting lifestyle changes• Using disease prevention and health promotion

interventions

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New nurses must be enabled to care even more effectively:

• By treating patients as partners in healthcare and maximising choices

• Through the use of technological advances• Providing value for money and quality care• In new and emerging roles which cross

professional boundaries• As leaders and members of multidisciplinary

teams

Overview: Nursing: Towards 2015 (Longley, Shaw and Dolan, 2007)

Chapter 1: Health Policy and Health Care

Demand for healthcare – Population– Health needs– Health preservation– Self-care– Complementary therapy– Health inequalities– Patient and carer expectations

Overview: Nursing: Towards 2015 (Longley, Shaw and Dolan, 2007)

Supply of healthcare– Workforce recruitment and retention– Voluntary (third sector)– Commercial sector– Information and IT– Genetics and personalised medicine– Telecare– Biotechnology, bioengineering and robotics

Overview: Nursing: Towards 2015 (Longley, Shaw and Dolan, 2007)Health policy

– Taxpayer and electoral pressures: efficiency and performance

– NHS Structures– Quality and safety– Regulation – Evidence based rationing– Patterns of specialist and generalist

healthcare– Social care– Ethical issues

Overview: Nursing: Towards 2015 (Longley, Shaw and Dolan, 2007)

Chapter 2: Nursing: Key drivers

Nursing workforce– Age profile (includes HCA role)– Medical workforce (includes changing roles

for nurses)

The future nurse (includes generalist/specialist issues)– Changing nature of nursing

Specialist and advanced practice

Overview: Nursing: Towards 2015 (Longley, Shaw and Dolan, 2007)

Chapter 3: Nurse education: Key drivers– Fitness for practice programmes– Access, recruitment and retention– Current profile of recruits– Structure of pre-registration nursing education– Level of award– Responsive education– Inter-professional education– European perspectives

Overview: Nursing: Towards 2015 (Longley, Shaw and Dolan, 2007)

Chapter 4: Scenarios for UK nursing in 2015• Steady as she goes• More specialisms for all• No more generalists

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NMC has now published a consultation document

The consultation is about the future – target of

2015

The consultation document is presented in 4

sections with questions asked in each section

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Preamble pages 1 to 8

Section A - overarching principles

1. Academic level

2. Stepping on and stepping off

3. Learning in practice

4. Community

5. EC Directives

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Section A - overarching principles

6. Shared Learning7. Common foundation programme8. Common Core9. Common pathways and themes10.Sub specialisation

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Section B - Branch Preparation

Section C - Generalist preparation

Section D - Post-registration consolidation

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Each table is being given two areas to work on

Table 1 Principles 1-2 and Sections B, C and D

Table 2 Principles 3-6 and principles 1-2

Table 3 Principles 6-10 and principles 3-6

Table 4 Sections B, C and D and principles 7-10

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• Please appoint a scribe and reporter

• Please have free discussion with reference to the

document - Nursing Towards 2015 - before

answering the question and add comments

where relevant in the questionnaire.

• Try to give as much information as possible.

• Please capture your discussion on the table mats

and use the flip chart to identify the main areas

for feedback to the wider group

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• Group work will last one hour.

• Feedback will last 40 minutes

• Each group will have up to five minutes for

feedback to allow time for additional discussion

• The outcomes will be circulated to workshop

members and to Directors of Nursing by mid-

December to help with organisational responses

Presentations

This presentation will be

available for download at

http://www.nipec.n-i.nhs.uk/presentations