2016
NMC Standards to Support Learning and
Assessment In Practice (2008)
‘Initiate and respond to practice development to
ensure safe and effective care is achieved and an
effective learning environment is maintained’
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Attend an annual Mentor Update
Mentor a minimum of 2 students every 3 years
Complete a review every 3 years with your
manager, to appraise your performance as a
mentor – triennial review
Discuss major changes in nurse education
affecting students in practice placement.
 Explore complex or challenging situations
involving students in practice through
scenarios
 Demonstrate how mentors can fulfil their role
set by the NMC by keeping up to date
between annual updates through the website
www.york.ac.uk/healthsciences/practice-edsupport
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A local mentor register is kept by the Mentor
Register Administrator in each Trust or
organisation which contains:
 Names and qualifications of mentors
 Date of each mentors last update
 Date of each mentors triennial review
Most mentors will receive notification of when
they are due an update.
From April 2016 the NMC will require evidence of:
 450 practice hrs (900 hrs if dual registration as
nurse and midwife)
 35 hrs of CPD including 20 hrs participatory
 5 practice-related feedback accounts
 5 written reflective accounts
 Reflective discussions
 Health & character declaration
 Professional indemnity arrangements
 Confirmation
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Regional Education Audit Tool (REAT)
Every practice placement
Every 2 years or earlier when adverse incidents
impact on safe and effective learning
Carried out in partnership with LEM, link lecturer
+ senior nurse for education (i.e.
PLF/PPF/Clinical lead for education)
Highlights areas for potential concern
Improves the contact and partnership between
education and practice learning
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Agree on the maximum capacity for all
learners for the placement
Confirms that resources are available to
support learners to achieve their learning
outcomes
Records action plans, ongoing monitoring,
follow up outcomes and deadlines.
Recorded on the PPQA website
www.healthcareplacements.
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Mentors must discuss and encourage the
student to evaluate the practice experience at
final interview
Students feedback about their learning
experience in practice on the Healthcare
Placements website.
A hyperlink is built into each Practice
Experience workbook in the eportfolio(PebblePad) to make the evaluation
easy to find
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Students get an email reminder on the VLE
The LEM in each placement can view the
evaluation in real time
A process is in place for the Link Lecturer to
feed back evaluations
Mentors can use the evaluations in their
triennial reviews and their re-validation
What should a student do if they are concerned
about practice they have witnessed?
Refer to the ‘Practice Experience Concerns’
page on the Department of Health Science
website
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‘Activate page’ option
Spoke experience tab
Supplementary work tab
Updated website –
www.york.ac.uk/healthsciences/practice-edsupport/pebblepad
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Medicines Calculations
Students must demonstrate in every practice
experience that they can calculate medicine
dosages without error in practice through:
 Administration of medications using
calculations under supervision
 Assisting or discussing with service users or
carers their medicine administration
calculations
 Scenario or simulation of medicines
administration calculations
Students must be given an opportunity to
practice medicines calculations with support
from their mentor.
E-portfolio Team – Fiona Powling, Jonathan
Ayto, Danielle Simpson
E-mail
dohs-practiceeducationsupport@york.ac.uk
Phone
01904 (32)1540
Visit
University of York, Seebohm Rowntree building
office ATB/025 on the ground floor
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Based at the University of York, Department of
Health Sciences
Support for mentors and students in practice
placement
Allocations of students to practice placements
Mentor Preparation Programme
Website-www.york.ac.uk/healthsciences/practiceed-support
E-mail - dohspracticeeducationsupport@york.ac.uk.
NMC requirements are that mentors are competent
in the following 8 domains
 Establishing effective working relationships
 Facilitation of learning
 Assessment and accountability
 Evaluation of learning
 Creating an environment for learning
 Context of practice
 Evidence based practice
 Leadership