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School ofNursing, Midwifery and Social Work ProfessionsNursing Assessors Newsletter Summer 2014
PRACTICE LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT NETWORKLouise Hunt – Practical Assessment Co-ordinatorT: 0121 331 6166E: [email protected]
Karen Cross – Senior Lecturer (MH/LD)T: 0121 331 6065E: [email protected]
Susie Guthrie – Senior Lecturer (Child)T: 0121 331 7016E: [email protected]
Sonja Carey – Senior Lecturer (Adult)T: 0121 331 7171E: [email protected]
DISABILITY SUPPORTNick Gee – Disability Support LecturerT: 0121 202 4531E: [email protected]
ASSESSMENT AND MENTORSHIP PREPARATIONJoanne Thomas – Senior LecturerT: 0121 331 6147E: [email protected]
ADMINISTRATION MANAGER Ramona DownerT: 0121 331 6047E: [email protected]
ASSESSMENT AND MENTORSHIP PREPARATIONVictoria Holbrooke – Administrative AssistantT: 0121 331 7043E: [email protected]
PLACEMENT ALLOCATIONSIrene Benjamin – Adult Field: North, East and South CircuitsT: 0121 331 7007E: [email protected]
Kathryn Price – MH and LD FieldT: 0121 331 7132E: [email protected]
Sarah Redpath – Child Field and Adult Field: West CircuitT: 0121 331 7005E: [email protected]
DISABILITY SUPPORTSheikh SelaT: 0121 331 6071E: [email protected]
24 HOUR SICKNESS/ABSENCE LINET: 0121 331 7010E: [email protected]
PRACTICE LEARNING HELPLINET: 0121 331 7169
UNIVERSITY SWITCHBOARDT: 0121 331 5000
MARY SEACOLE LIBRARYLending Enquiries – 0121 331 5278Reference Enquiries – 0121 331 6012Ask the libraryhttp://library.bcu.ac.uk/contactus.htm
MENTOR WEBSITEwww.bcu.ac.uk/health/dpl-mentors
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New Programme Team – BSc (Hons) NursingIntroducing the new programme team for pre-registration Nursing at Birmingham City University, for the BSc (Hons) Nursing course:
Helen Holder Programme Director
Robert Mapp Adult Field Deputy Programme Director
Lisa Abbot Child Field Deputy Programme Director
Jim Chapman Mental Health Field Deputy Programme Director
Helen Goulding Learning Disability Field Deputy Programme Director
Placement Allocation UpdateBy Paul M Evans, Placement Officer.
Birmingham city University has recently purchased a new allocation system provided by ARC Technology Ltd. This system will improve the students’ experience of receiving their allocations and also speed up the process of allocations allowing students more time to contact placement areas before their placement. Students will be able to receive their allocation information, complete evaluations of practical placements, view their absence record and view in depth details regarding placement areas through a single sign on in the universities web portal ‘i-city’. This system is much more user friendly than the current allocation site and placement directory. The new version of the placement directory will be developed to provide more in depth details of placement areas. This means that in the near future students will be better prepared to start their placement. The specific placement entries in the directory will also be editable by nominated external partners allowing for area information to be kept up to date instantly. Students will not notice any changes in the short term but we are hopeful that by August 2014 students will be using the new system to access their placement and absence details. Focus groups will be held to gather feedback from students regarding the usability of the system. More details will be released as the project progresses.
Become Involved in University Activities Mentoring Skills – Thinking Out LoudDo you want to be involved in interviewing the future nurse? Join us and be part of the nursing admissions team.
We will offer you briefing sessions on the selection and recruitment process. These sessions can be facilitated in the clinical area or at BCU. Dates were circulated to our Trust partners in May 2014, with sessions taking place at BCU in September and October 2014. If you would like us to conduct the session in your clinical area, please let us know and this can be facilitated.
This is an opportunity to enhance your
knowledge and skills and provide you with an opportunity to select potential nurses of the future.
This will put you at the heart
of the decision-making processes
and progress your personal development.
You will be able to utilise your past and current experiences to guide you in the face-to face interviews. When interviewing, you will be assisted by an experienced nurse academic who will be there to support and guide you.
Given that the nursing programme includes 50% theory and 50% practice, your contribution is highly valued. Your involvement in the interviewing process, will give the candidates an opportunity to engage with our Trust partners and to further value the clinical element.
If you would like to be involved, please contact:
Angela McGrath, T: 0121 331 6120 or E: [email protected]
For further information, please contact:
Abdool Nankoo, T: 0121 331 7096 or E: [email protected]
Juliana Benjamin, T: 0121 331 6025 or E: [email protected]
We look forward to working with you.
Some nursing decisions are so much a part of everyday routine for an experienced nurse that the reasons behind them can seem obvious. However it is not always so clear to students. Thinking out loud is a technique that can help students to understand why their mentor is delivering care in a particular way and the decisions which have informed this. This helps facilitate the students learning in the following ways:
- It makes hidden decision processes explicit to students.
- It helps to relate decisions to real time care situations.
- It gives the student insight into your problem solving skills.
Mike Hughes (2012) emphasises that this is a useful technique but points out that there is a big difference between talking out loud and thinking out loud. Talking out loud is a distraction, on the other hand thinking out loud captures the importance of how and why decisions are made and encourages active engagement of both the mentor and student.
A few examples of the kind of thinking out loud students find useful are listed below but there are many more.
“I’m looking at the patient’s assessment and its telling me…”
‘Hmm, that’s not working; I thought it was going to…”
“Let’s work out the best order to do this in…..”
“Would it be better to try this with…..”
This approach has to be applied with certain caution so as not to alarm the patient. A nurse who seems to suddenly start talking to herself with no warning is not always that reassuring. However patients who are experts about their own condition can be valuable asset if they understand what going on and can contribute useful insights themselves. However sometimes thinking out loud will need to be made explicit in a more private area either before or after care delivery so as not to upset or disturb a patient.
Once students are comfortable with the example you set them of
thinking out loud you can also encourage them to
start doing the same. This is then becomes
a useful assessment technique. It helps you to check the student’s reasons for delivering care in, their understanding of the underpinning principles and the ways they are adapting these
to fit patients’ needs. It can help
you to iron out any misunderstanding
the student has and to fill any gaps in their
knowledge. Stuart (2013) points out that this is how
students develop the clinical reasoning skills which they need to become
safe and effective nurses.
References:- Hughes,M. (2012) Taking out loud is not the same
as thnking out loud. http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2012/03/talking-out-loud-is-not-the-same-as-thinking-aloud.php
- Stuart,C.C. (2013) Mentoring, Learning and Assessment in Clinical Practice. (3rd Ed) London. Churchill Livingstone, Elsevier.
Congratulations and thank you to our latest assessors of excellence.
All have been nominated by students or colleagues using a form available at https://icity.bcu.ac.uk/Health/Department-of-Practice-Learning/Placement-Quality/Assessors-of-Excellence
Assessors of Excellence
Bal Quigley − SAU, City Hospital
Ferhat Shaheen − Ward 10, Birmingham Children’s Hospital
Katie Herbert − Ward 10, Birmingham Children’s Hospital
