Quality Assurance System for the Use of Simulation in Clinical Skills Education What is Quality Assurance (QA)? Quality Assurance in education is a system of ensuring that quality management and quality control processes are in place within an organisation which can demonstrate training and monitoring of standards. These processes also ensure there is a quality evidence base. QA identifies where organisations are not meeting standards for simulation based education and training and outline options for promoting improvement. The development of a national strategy for clinical skills education in Scotland required a quality assurance system to be in place for simulation based education to set up a continuous improvement culture of clinical skills practice by individuals or teams of health care practitioners. A Quality Assurance system ensures that standards of simulation based education are accessible to all health care practitioners wherever they practice and whatever their professional background. The following information is framed around three questions What QA frameworks have contributed to the development of a QA system for Simulation Based Education? What is the Scottish Simulation Based Education QA System?
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Quality Assurance System
for the Use of Simulation in Clinical Skills Education
What is Quality Assurance (QA)?
Quality Assurance in education is a system of ensuring that quality management and
quality control processes are in place within an organisation which can demonstrate
training and monitoring of standards. These processes also ensure there is a quality
evidence base. QA identifies where organisations are not meeting standards for
simulation based education and training and outline options for promoting improvement.
The development of a national strategy for clinical skills education in Scotland required a
quality assurance system to be in place for simulation based education to set up a
continuous improvement culture of clinical skills practice by individuals or teams of
health care practitioners. A Quality Assurance system ensures that standards of simulation
based education are accessible to all health care practitioners wherever they practice and
whatever their professional background. The following information is framed around
three questions
What QA frameworks have contributed to the development of a QA system for
Simulation Based Education?
What is the Scottish Simulation Based Education QA System?
How was the QA System for Simulation Based Education developed?
What QA frameworks have contributed to the development of a QA system for
Simulation Based Education?
The following sources have informed the development of a QA system for Simulation
Based Education. Each recognises the need to ensure educational standards are being
continuously improved and updated for all health care practitioners.
1. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
The NMC updated their QA framework for education in 2016. The principles for the
framework include Transparency, Clarity, Utility, Accountability and Improvement. The
standards for the approved programmes (over 100) it runs informs their role as a
professional regulator rather than an educational regulator which links into the Quality
Assurance Agency (QAA) for higher education. The NMC regulates within a ‘right touch’
regulation system set out by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Right touch
regulation is defined as being proportionate, consistent, targeted, transparent,
accountable and agile. In order to provide public protection as a professional regulator it
delivers QA through four areas, as follows:
Approval against standards
Education reviews
Responding to concerns
Reporting and sharing evidence
NMC QA Framework for nursing and midwife education
2. The Health Professions Council (HPC)
The HPC is a regulator which keeps a register of health care practitioners who practice to
an agreed standard. It is a statutory body which approves educational programmes
necessary ‘to achieve standards of proficiency’. It currently approves 94 education
providers providing 424 separate programmes. The following professions are included:
arts therapists, biomedical scientists, chiropodists/podiatrists, clinical scientists,