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How to reflect on your practice for revalidation
Jan 29, 2019 · Paula Ingram and Marianne Murdoch with advice on how to reflect on your practice for revalidation.. See here for a 2021 update on revalidation and how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected it.. What is reflection for revalidation? Reflection is the process of making sense of an experience in order to learn and improve as a practitioner. 1 Often, we reflect as part of our everyday practice without ...
Effective wound care - Nursing in Practice
Position documents, anecdotal reports and personal experience are all useful guides to the development of good practice in wound care. Wound care companies are also excellent sources of clinical data and information about individual dressings and therapies.
The effective mentor and supervisor | Nursing in Practice
Dec 22, 2021 · While we use ‘mentor’ as an umbrella term, the NMC 2018 Standards for Registered Nurses and Standards for Student Supervision and Assessment, 7 encourage us to leave the name behind, saying there has been ‘disillusionment’ with the definition and didactic (teaching, showing, doing) nature of the historic role that does not align with the modern needs of nursing and nurse education.
The role of advanced nurse practitioners - Nursing in Practice
May 19, 2015 · There are multiple definitions and models of advanced practice and the Department of Health and the Nursing Midwifery Council have both published statements regarding the underpinning knowledge and competencies required for advanced practice.
How to become…an advanced nurse practitioner - Nursing in …
These frameworks define advanced practice and four areas, or pillars, of practice. Health Education England (HEE) describes advanced clinical practice as delivered by experienced registered health practitioners with a high degree of autonomy and complex decision-making.
How the practice nurse role has evolved | Nursing in Practice
Dec 17, 2019 · The changes in practice nursing have been immense. Now the studying never stops and the role is more holistic, covering everything in some chronic disease areas from diagnosis to treatment and follow-up.
The basics of clinical supervision | Nursing in Practice
Jun 21, 2013 · The Department of Health (DH),5,6 in its document Making a Difference, recognised how activities such as clinical supervision needed to be developed, strengthened and integrated into the wider clinical governance programme, with clear links to annual appraisal and personal development planning.
How to train as a general practice nurse | Nursing in Practice
Jul 9, 2020 · A guide on how to train as a general practice nurse and build a career in primary care. At such a crucial and unprecedented time for health and social care, the current focus has been on the secondary care responses to Covid-19.However, behind the scenes, primary, community and care home nursing teams have worked at pace to respond collaboratively to the current increased demand on their services.
Management of pressure ulcers - Nursing in Practice
Feb 9, 2012 · Regular, thorough skin inspection, particularly over bony prominences, must be carried out as it is key to detecting pressure damage, 10 and any redness or other marking documented and monitored. The frequency of repeat inspections will be determined by the initial findings, the individual’s level of risk for PU development and the type of healthcare setting.