How It works
The mental health and learning disability placement circuit is a diverse and multi-faceted structure providing community and in-patient services requirements across a multi-site, wide geographical footprint which was a key consideration in planning how the enhanced team would work.
Proactive contact with students and practice staff was provided by the seconded Practice Educator Facilitator at key placement points to ensure ongoing advice, support, guidance and risk management.
Time was therefore protected by substantive Practice Educator Facilitator to explore and further develop ideas for clinical placement expansion from a strategic viewpoint.
Key Outcomes
Challenges
Greater responsiveness of practice staff and operational management on a day to day basis to student requirements and to the overall clinical placement expansion agenda Positive feedback from students in practice to the increased engagement of Practice Educator Facilitators at a time of greater need
• Impact of pandemic on all practice education functions
• Responding to requirements for more than one Higher Education Institutes partner • Implementation of new Nursing & Midwifery Council standards & new Practice Assessment Document
Strengthening of strategic planning for creative resource development
Greater, more effective use of technology to enhance the student experience, whilst also generating capacity expansion opportunities
Key Learning
Both operational and strategic PEF functions require time, space and wider acknowledgement Capacity management and clinical expansion requires a whole organisation approach with support and ownership of the future Nursing workforce requirements by all concerned
Sustainability
Momentum can be progressed given further commitment to a substantive, rather than fixed term Practice Educator Facilitator Further development of dedicated IT kit provision will enable the student population to engage with agile working arrangements whilst also contributing to clinical expansion
Next steps
We will be rolling out of the additional resources/materials and undertaking a review of their effectiveness. We will be encouraging learners to complete evaluations to facilitate further analysis of impact. We will be engaging assessors, ward managers and senior managers in an evaluation of the new ward-based PEF role to inform how the role is developed further.
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