Designed to foster a culture of learning and development, the professional nurse advocate role also seeks to improve care quality
The professional nurse advocate (PNA) programme, introduced last spring by NHS England and NHS Improvement, is the first of its kind for nursing anywhere in the world. PNA training aims to provide nurses with the skills to facilitate restorative clinical supervision (RCS). To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Reflexivity is an important tool for research and nursing in finding the meeting points or interface of research and practice. This article provides an example of being reflexive that identified how the research skills of ‘listening to understand’ and ‘finding meaning’ filtered into nursing practice. To read the full article, choose “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This article provides an introduction to coaching and action learning as approaches nurse leaders and managers can use to promote leadership development among individual team members and within the team. It describes how coaching and action learning work and their potential benefits and challenges. It explains how the two approaches can be used to underpin effective problem-solving and goal setting, and support nurses in their professional development, the ultimate aim being to deliver safe and effective patient care.
This study aimed to evaluate implementation of cross-sector pre-registration placements, and to identify barriers and enablers of a “successful” placement that achieved its intended outcomes. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
To critically appraise and synthesis the current evidence related to Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) in the children and young people's healthcare setting.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Letter. Dr Launer provides significant insight into the challenges faced by doctors in his article ‘Managing the threat to reflective writing’.1 In particular, attention has been focused on the approaches to sustain reflective practice in postgraduate education.
As a junior doctor, I volunteered to become a reflective writing tutor for medical students in first year clinical training. Students were given constructive guidance for these assignments, including examples of the different models used in reflective practice; the Gibbs’ cycle (description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusions and actions) was highlighted as an exemplar framework.2 My task was then to provide feedback to students on reflective writing pieces through the year and award an overall score. But can we—or should we—grade reflective writing? . To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
To examine the use of time by advanced practice nurses and time use differences according to type of healthcare organization, work experience and supervisor.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
The Flu Bee Game earned Joan Pons Laplana a runner-up place in the innovation category, as Andy Yeoman of Focus Games Ltd explains. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Despite extensive research examining burnout in psychiatric nursing staff, literature exploring key predictors of burnout in secure psychiatric settings has been relatively neglected. Research has yet to explore burnout in these settings by adopting previously identified predictors such as support or the ward environment.
To synthesise available data on current educational provision related to preparation for the advanced clinical practice role.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
It sets out:
common expectations for reflective practitioners
how reflection can be more effective, and less of a tick box exercise
how to develop multi professional teams of reflective practitioners.
This new report from the RCPCH outlines the latest workforce data on SAS doctors in paediatrics and gives recommendations for how employers and workforce planning bodies can better support this essential group.
To identify, describe, and summarise evidence from quantitative, qualitative, and mixed‐method studies conducted to prepare nurses and nursing students to lead on and/or deliver compassionate care. . To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
Many people, including educators, believe learning styles are set at birth and predict both academic and career success even though there is no scientific evidence to support this common myth, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.
In two online experiments with 668 participants, more than 90 percent of them believed people learn better if they are taught in their predominant learning style, whether that is visual, auditory or tactile. But those who believed in learning styles split evenly into an “essentialist” group, with more strongly held beliefs, and a “nonessentialist” group, with more flexible beliefs about learning styles, said lead researcher Shaylene Nancekivell, PhD, a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan.
Launched at RCN Congress in Liverpool today, the free tool aims to help registered nurses, and in time clinical support workers, identify new areas of practice that might suit their skills and aspirations. It highlights the wide scope of roles and opportunities available and presents options to encourage experienced nursing staff to pursue a fulfilling career.
BPS blogpost by David Robson....... scientific research suggests that you should adopt an ancient rhetorical method favoured by the likes of Julius Caesar and known as “illeism” – or speaking about yourself in the third person (the term was coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge from the Latin ille meaning “he, that”). If I was considering an argument that I’d had with a friend, for instance, I may start by silently thinking to myself “David felt frustrated that…” The idea is that this small change in perspective can clear your emotional fog, allowing you to see past your biases.
Staff with varying backgrounds and educational qualifications can be effectively trained to implement procedures in line with evidence‐based practice. Behavioural skills training (BST) is a competency‐based training model used to effectively educate a broad selection of professionals, including front line staff, in a range of work‐related skills. However, BST has yet to be evaluated in a large group‐based experiment.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.