Challenges
• Cultural shift supporting supervisors and assessors to understand and embrace the new framework capacity to increase knowledge and understanding of the framework.
• Additional resource for skill-based training required to enable students to practice autonomously through the framework.
• Additional resources needed to provide clinical laptop loans to students for duration of placement.
Key Outcomes
Improvement in quality of placement.
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• Improved experience for students as evidence through evaluation.
• Development of autonomous practitioners confident and competent at the point of registration.
• Notably improved quality of newly qualified nurses applying for community Nursing vacancies.
• Increase in capacity of student placements through indirect supervision.
• Unanimous positive feedback from placement educators of the framework.
Key Learning
Investment in skills development upfront enables the framework to be applied more successfully. Peripatetic support from the Trust ’s support from the Trust’s Practice Educator Facilitator was needed in building practice assessor/ supervisor confidence and competence with the framework and underpinning coaching principles, reducing resistance to change.
Sustainability
• Introduced the community nurse development programme that is delivered quarterly that 3rd year student nurses are enrolled on to.
• Continued printing of locally designed coaching cards.
• Increased PEF and administrative hours to manage increase in capacity.
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