1. Mentor Update
2017

2. Mentor Update –NMC requirement
Discuss major changes in nurse education affecting students in practice placement.
Explore complex or challenging situations involving students in practice through scenarios
** we will utilise examples raised by attendees today**
Demonstrate how mentors can fulfil their role set by the NMC by keeping up to date between annual updates through the website
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1)Introduction
Why are we here? What are we going to do?

3. Maintain Mentor Status
Standards to Support Learning and Assessment In Practice (NMC 2008)
‘Mentors must demonstrate their knowledge, skills and competencies on an ongoing basis…… to ensure safe and effective care is achieved and an effective learning environment is maintained’
Requirements:
Attend annual Mentor Update
Mentor minimum of 2 students every 3 years ** **What this means to you is determined by the organisation holding your mentor register.**
Complete Triennial review
Rationale, context provision:
Need to keep up to dated with issues affecting nurse education
Keep your triennial review documents safe - you may be asked for them in an audit
The NMC requirements for Mentors
The NMC requirements for mentors remain unchanged and in the Standards to Support Learning and Assessment in Practice (SLAiP) (2008) state that they must:
Have completed a mentor preparation programme (or equivalent)
Be annotated as a mentor on the local mentor register
Mentored at least two students within the three year period. ** This is determined by organisation holding the mentor register.
Completing a triennial review to ensure that only those who continue to meet the requirements remain on the register – ie Complete a review every 3 years with your manager, to appraise your performance as a mentor
Nurses who make judgements about whether a student has achieved the required standards of proficiency for safe and effective practice must be on the same part or sub-part of the register as that which the student is intending to enter.
Participated in annual updating – to include an opportunity to meet and explore assessment and supervision issues with other mentors/practice teachers.
Mapped ongoing development in their role against the current NMC mentor standards.
Sign-off mentors must have met the additional sign-of mentor criteria and be annotated on the mentor register as a sign-off mentor
 ** Later we will explore as a group the validity and reliability of judgements made when assessing practice

4. NMC Standards to Support Learning and Assessment In Practice (2008)
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
The NMC identified 8 domains in which mentors must demonstrate competence.
Group work and discussion will demonstrate relevance of these domains to mentors and students within the context of ‘real’ working and learning environments

5. Supervising Mentor: Accountability
Supervision of MPP student for required hours
Overseeing meetings/documentation
Student Mentor space on PebblePad
Ensuring outcomes in each domain have been achieved and evidenced
Signing of portfolio – statement.
What this means…
The code (NMC 2015
In addition to mentoring Pre-reg, also will supervise MPP students – must ensure they understand their responsibilities with regard to this
(Number of incomplete portfolios submitted)
Please reitererate the key role of mentors to safe practice and protection of the public
Emphasise their accountability when signing off a mentor

6. NMC Revalidation
From April 2016 the NMC requires evidence of: practice and learning in order to revalidate registration Attending mentor updates and completing triennial reviews may contribute to the revalidation process
Being an Up to Date Mentor could help with Re-Validation
A note of caution
Whilst being a mentor is very helpful in contributing toward meeting the requirements of revalidation it is worth noting that the NMC are looking for a variety of sources for your evidence.

7. Do you know……..
Where your organisation’s mentor register is maintained?
Where students can view your practice area’s profile?
Healthcare Placements (PPQA)
How Educational Audit and Student Eval’n can impact you and your work area?
Who’s your educational lead (LEM)
Who’s your PEF/PLF (if you have one)?
…….what those abbreviations even mean?
Who’s your Link Lecturer?
Most Trusts and PIVOs keep their mentor register on the Health Care Placements (PPQA) website. The Healthcare placements website will generate an automated to mentors who are out of date with their mentor update or their triennial review.
Some of the PIVO placements keep their own independent register
Importance of maintaining placement profile – to student expectations and perceptions of the practice experience
Importance of good feedback and quality learning experiences to reputation and recruitment of staff (impact on workload, patient care quality)
Use of feedback in your revalidation evidence.

8. DoHS Programmes BSc MNursing PG Dip NMC/new progs/developments
An overview of the pre registration nursing course to help with context of the routes to NMC registration
Noting development of new standards, possible impact on future student cohorts and experiences, overlap of curent programmes with new programmes
Nurse Associate programme imminent and overlap with FD

9. Practice Hours
Students must work ALL the required hours in every practice experience
Required hours are on the 1st page of the PebblePad portfolio
Students must complete all the required hours in every practice experience
IF the student is absent from practice they must try to make it up before they finish
If students are unable to complete the hours they can apply for exceptional circumstances.
If students don’t complete the hours and do not have exceptional circumstances they will fail the placement and carry deficit hour on to be made up in the next placement

10. Any questions? Ideas or suggestions? Problems? PebblePad
Any problems or suggestions can be passed back to the PebblePad team OR the mentor can mail the team on

11. Help with E-portfolio (PebblePad)
E-portfolio Team –Jonathan Ayto, Danielle Simpson
Phone
01904 (32)1540
Visit
University of York, Seebohm Rowntree building office ATB/025 on the ground floor
Help and support is available from the eportfolio Team – Fiona Powling, Jonathan Ayto and Danielle Simpson.
s and phone messages will be answered ASAP and usually within 24 hours
There is usually someone in the office Monday to Friday – 16.30
If you are planning to visit it’s best to check that someone will be at home!!!!!

12. Assessing Medicines Management Calculations
Students must demonstrate 100% in every practice experience that they can calculate medicine dosages without error : Space in PebblePad for practice calculations, however…… Review of these pages highlights potential safety issues due to inaccuracies by some student and some mentors
If the practice experience placement does not directly administer medications and the mentors feel that they are unable to assess the student simulation or scenario can be used.
The student might also gain experience through spokes.
CALCULATIONS:
On checking portfolios after placement – some calculations assessed as correct but are not.
Some correct calculations are deemed incorrect and then amended wrongly.
Some calculations are inappropriate to the level/stage of the student; some are not representative of the clinical area.
When preparing examples, please refer to guidance provided in Pebblepad

13. Diversity, equality and inclusivity
Consider student diversity to achieve equality and inclusivity in practice learning
Educational – previous life and work experience, skills, knowledge, stage in programme
Dispositional – identity, self esteem, motivation, aspiration
Circumstantial – disability, geographical location, other employment, caring responsibilities
Cultural – language, values, beliefs, social background
By getting to know the student and considering these aspects of the student’s diversity we can make the practice learning experience engaging for all students. ‘Students don’t want to stand out as different yet want to be recognised as individuals’ (Hockings,2010)
Students must not be marginalised due to their diversity but must be included in all appropriate learning opportunities

14. Mentor: Raising concerns
What should you do if you are concerned about
Conduct …….Potential fitness to practice
Performance - safety
Communication
Documentation
Adherence to timeframes
Perceived conflict of professional judgement and university.
Highlight the issue of equity with other students in regard to appeals and adherence to process.
Health Sci staff dilemma of prof regulation & support for mentor decision vs University lack of insight into special circumstances of professional programmes

15. Student: Escalating Concerns
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 *relates to learning environment *student statements - process
Hyperlink has been inserted to the website
Need to know students may raise issues
Emphasise the need to inform link lecturer and that students must not complete statements until they have support and guidance of education staff
Show link and stress they must only complete statements on the document provided.

16. NMC Review of Standards in Nurse Education
NMC programme of change for education
New standards for the future nurse

17. New standards
Final draft of the new standards to be signed off by NMC January 2017
Formal consultation on standards – Spring 2017
Early adoption Autumn 2018
Full adoption End 2019

18. Useful Websites NMC – Education RCN Review of Mentorship
HEE – Nursing Associate
University of York – Department of Health Sciences