ABSTRACT
Katerina Kolyva, Executive Director, Council of Deans of Health, discusses the importance of demonstrating the positive effects of nursing and midwifery research on patient care and safety in order to influence policy makers.
Subject(s)
Health Policy , Nursing Research , Humans , State Medicine , United KingdomABSTRACT
The Council of Deans of Health has had more than a year of extensive engagement with the Nursing and Midwifery Council's standards for future registered nurses.
Subject(s)
Midwifery , Nursing Care , Budgets , Clinical Competence , Economics, Nursing , Midwifery/economics , Midwifery/standards , United KingdomSubject(s)
Allied Health Personnel/education , Education, Nursing , Nursing Research , Organizations , Universities , England , Humans , Scotland , State Medicine , Training Support , United Kingdom , WalesABSTRACT
From April 2016 nurses and midwives will undertake a process of revalidation every three years. This has created some anxiety among practitioners. However, the Nursing and Midwifery Council pilot sites have shown that many nurses and midwives have found the process beneficial. This first article in a series of eight outlines why nurses need to revalidate, the potential benefits for patients and the profession and how revalidation links to the NMC Code. Subsequent articles will explore how revalidation works in practice.
Subject(s)
Nursing Staff/psychology , Humans , Pilot Projects , Power, Psychological , United KingdomABSTRACT
Obtaining and reflecting on feedback provides an opportunity for professionals to engage with one another to discuss what good care looks like. The NMC believes that reflecting on feedback will be crucial in helping everyone on the register to analyse the way in which they deliver care, and to help them make small changes to their working practice that could make a big difference to patients.
Subject(s)
Certification/standards , Clinical Competence/standards , Employee Performance Appraisal/standards , Nursing Care/standards , State Medicine/standards , Feedback , Humans , United KingdomSubject(s)
Clinical Competence/standards , Midwifery/standards , Nurses/standards , Societies, Nursing/standards , State Medicine/standards , Adult , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Pregnancy , United KingdomSubject(s)
Certification/standards , Nurse Midwives , Nursing Staff , Professional Competence , Confidentiality , United KingdomSubject(s)
Certification , Nurse Midwives/standards , Nursing Staff/standards , Professional Role , United KingdomABSTRACT
THE INTRODUCTION of revalidation will be the single biggest change the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has made to the regulation of nurses and midwives since it came into existence in 2002. It is a change that will enable us to protect the public better by ensuring that nurses and midwives reflect on how they meet the requirements of the code on a regular basis. This will refocus individual nurses and midwives, and will help to develop professionalism.
