Over 1,000 Nursing Associates will begin training this year in a new role that will sit alongside existing nursing care support workers and fully-qualified registered nurses to deliver hands-on care for patients. West Midlands project led by Walsall but includes SSSFT, SSOTP and SaTH.
Employers are invited to comment on the latest draft of the degree-based apprenticeship standard in nursing, before it is passed for approval.
As a part of the process for approving new apprenticeships, all draft standards are open for public feedback before a decision is made on whether to approve them for delivery.
Patients are more likely to survive when nurses who care for them have a degree, research has revealed. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Come and visit our first pop-up library at Severn Fields, Shrewsbury 19th July 11.00am-3.00pm. Join the library, borrow and return books, get help finding information and evidence, set up an Athens account, find out what the library can do for you and your team.
A new role that will sit alongside existing nursing care support workers and fully-qualified registered nurses to deliver hands-on care moved a step closer today as Health Education England (HEE) published the response to its recent consultation on the Nursing Associate role.
The consultation proved popular, attracting over 1,000 responses from individuals including patients, members of the public and a wide range of organisations including professional bodies, trade unions, health care and social care providers and commissioners of healthcare. The role will be given the title ‘Nursing Associate’
Having the right number of appropriately skilled staff is a huge organisational challenge and a critical determinant of the quality and efficiency of health care.
There is a growing gap between patient needs and the skills and knowledge of the workforce that cares for them, especially regarding the non medical workforce. The Nuffield Trust report, Reshaping the workforce to deliver the care patients need, commissioned by NHS Employers, gives guidance for reshaping workforce; identifies key enablers and obstacles to change; and provides recommendations for national and local bodies about key actions to support change.
To identify patient safety competencies, and determine the clinical learning environments that facilitate the development of patient safety competencies in nursing students. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Equipping NHS nursing, community and support staff with additional skills to deliver care is the best way to develop the capacity of the health service workforce, and will be vital to enable the NHS to cope with changed patient demand in the future. However, expanding the skills of the non-medical workforce in this way also presents big organisational challenges for NHS Trusts, and will not be easy to achieve in the current financial context. Despite this, changing staffing should be considered an urgent, ‘must-do’ priority for Trusts.
Two £25 vouchers are up for grabs in the library’s ‘Making the Most of Information’ survey.
To take part, just visit http://goo.gl/AdN4ok by Friday 19th February.
To explore how nursing students account for decisions to report or not report poor care witnessed on placement and to examine the implications of findings for educators. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - www.sssft.nhs.uk/library
Health Minister Ben Gummer today (17 December 2015) announced a plan to create a new nursing support role.
Provisionally called nursing associates, they will work alongside healthcare support workers and fully qualified nurses focusing on patient care.
The role, which could also be a new route for those wishing to become a registered nurse, has been recommended by nursing leaders and other healthcare professionals. The new addition to the care workforce will help bridge the gap between healthcare support workers, who have a care certificate, and registered nurses.
Read about changes to healthcare education funding for student nursing, midwifery and allied health students. Details about the proposed new route into nursing, a role provisionally called nursing associate, will be available here.
We're currently making some changes in the background of our email updates to solve some problems we've been having recently. During our testing phase this may automatically generate some alerts, which will show below, but you can ignore these! If all goes according to plan we will be resuming normal service in the next week…