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COVID-19 , Health Personnel , Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional , Occupational Diseases , Personal Protective Equipment , COVID-19/epidemiology , COVID-19/prevention & control , COVID-19/therapy , COVID-19/transmission , Humans , Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional/prevention & control , Occupational Diseases/prevention & control , Personal Protective Equipment/supply & distribution , United Kingdom/epidemiologyABSTRACT
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) recognises the important contribution that nursing students are making to the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This article reports on the Greater Manchester Supervision and Delegation Framework, providing practical guidance for students and practice staff (practice supervisor/practice assessor and registered nurse) on how to support student nurses who have opted into a paid (deployed) healthcare role. The framework operationalises NMC emergency standards for Nursing and Midwifery education, enabling students to complete their pre-registration undergraduate or postgraduate nursing programme while also supporting the healthcare workforce (NMC, 2020).
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Coronavirus Infections/nursing , Education, Nursing/standards , Pandemics , Pneumonia, Viral/nursing , Societies, Nursing , COVID-19 , Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology , Humans , Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology , State Medicine/organization & administration , Students, Nursing , United Kingdom/epidemiologyABSTRACT
During the current coronavirus pandemic, undergraduate nurse teaching is facing many challenges. Universities have had to close their campuses, which means that academics are working from home and may be coping with unfamiliar technology to deliver the theoretical part of the undergraduate nursing curriculum. Emergency standards from the Nursing and Midwifery Council have allowed theoretical instruction to be replaced with distance learning, requiring nursing academics to adapt to providing a completely virtual approach to their teaching. This article provides examples of tools that can be used to deliver the theoretical component of the undergraduate nursing curriculum and ways of supporting students and colleagues in these unprecedented times.