Update for Nursing and Midwifery Practice Assessor/Mentors 2018 - 19 Lecturer guidance This pack should have everything you need to facilitate a Practice Assessor/Mentor update and provides a range of material for you to select and use as appropriate: Part one: What is new – points for discussion Basic overview of what Practice Assessor/Mentors need to know What support is available for Practice Assessor/Mentors in Leeds What to do if………………. Part two: New NMC standards hand out – for printing off Part three: Sign off Practice Assessor/Mentor guidance Part four: Scenarios – these can be used either to facilitate general discussion and learning , OR can be used as sign off Mentor events. YOU CAN ONLY FACILITATE A SIGN OFF MENTOR EVENT IF YOU HAVE A SIGN OFF MENTOR IN THE SESSION WHO IS WILLING TO SIGN OFF THE MENTORS WHO WORK THROUGH THE CASE STUDIES The scenarios can be printed off and taken with you for use during the session. Part five: Reflective accounts form – based on NMC Revalidation form to encourage Practice Assessor/Mentors to use their learning from Practice Assessing / Supervising /Mentoring students or attending Practice Assessor/Mentor updates as an opportunity to reflect These forms can be printed off and taken with you for use during the session Part six: Practice Assessor/Mentor Update register – blank – Practice learning facilitators (PLFs) may bring them if they are attending . Please email it to the PLF for the relevant Trust or Private, voluntary, independent organisations (PIVO) Statement of attendance -optional
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Update for Nursing and Midwifery Practice Assessor/Mentors 2018 - 19
Lecturer guidance
This pack should have everything you need to facilitate a Practice
Assessor/Mentor update and provides a range of material for you to select
and use as appropriate:
Part one:
What is new – points for discussion
Basic overview of what Practice Assessor/Mentors need to know
What support is available for Practice Assessor/Mentors in Leeds
What to do if……………….
Part two:
New NMC standards hand out – for printing off
Part three:
Sign off Practice Assessor/Mentor guidance
Part four:
Scenarios – these can be used either to facilitate general discussion and learning , OR can
be used as sign off Mentor events. YOU CAN ONLY FACILITATE A SIGN OFF MENTOR EVENT
IF YOU HAVE A SIGN OFF MENTOR IN THE SESSION WHO IS WILLING TO SIGN OFF THE
MENTORS WHO WORK THROUGH THE CASE STUDIES
The scenarios can be printed off and taken with you for use during the session.
Part five:
Reflective accounts form – based on NMC Revalidation form to encourage Practice
Assessor/Mentors to use their learning from Practice Assessing / Supervising /Mentoring
students or attending Practice Assessor/Mentor updates as an opportunity to reflect
These forms can be printed off and taken with you for use during the session
Part six:
Practice Assessor/Mentor Update register – blank – Practice learning facilitators
(PLFs) may bring them if they are attending . Please email it to the PLF for the
relevant Trust or Private, voluntary, independent organisations (PIVO)
Statement of attendance -optional
The registers and statement of attendance can be printed off and taken with you for use
during the session
n.b. A PowerPoint presentation is available on the Practice Placement website
http://medhealth.leeds.ac.uk/info/2950/practice_placements click on Practice
Assessor/Mentors then find a Practice Assessor/Mentor update – link lecturer resources -
should it be needed –but not all Practice Assessor/Mentor update venues have accessible IT
Part three: Sign off Mentor (SOM) guidance n.b the requirement for this role will go once
the new standards are introduced – by September 2020 –current final placement 3 year
students still need a SOM though!!
Sign off Mentors: NMC require sign- off Mentors who make the final assessment of practice (i.e. for
final placement students) to meet additional criteria to reflect the level of responsibility:
Working in the same field of practice……. Registered on the same part of the register Have clinical currency and capability…….. Demonstrate a working knowledge of current programme requirements, practice assessment
strategies and relevant changes in education and practice for the student they are assessing.. Have an in-depth understanding of their accountability to the NMC for the decision they make
to pass or fail a student when assessing proficiency requirement at the end of a programme.” (
Been supervised on at least 3 occasions for signing off proficiency at the end of a final placement…….by an existing sign off Practice Assessor/Mentor or practice teacher
NMC, 2008 p. 21)
However up to 2 occasions may be simulated – but must still be signed off by a sign off Mentor . Sign
off Mentor sessions give existing Practice Assessor/Mentors the opportunity to:
Undertake two case study simulations
The /Mentor must engage in discussion and document these discussions which will be
facilitated by a sign off Mentor and link/ liaison lecturer
They should keep the record of the two simulations
The Mentor must then mentor a real live final placement student under the supervision
of a sign off mentor in your placement area. The Sign off Mentor should review the
evidence from the two sign off simulations and if they are happy that the Mentor is ready to
be a SOM, sign the Mentor’s Triennial Review/ Mentor update documentation . The
Mentor should then then let whoever manages the processes for updating your local
Practice Assessor/Mentor register – usually a Practice learning Facilitator –that they are
now ready to be a SOM and annotated as such on the Practice Assessor/Mentor register.
Part Four:
Scenarios – these can be used either to facilitate discussion OR can be used as sign off
Practice Assessor/Mentor events. If used for sign off events, they should be signed and
dated by the sign off Practice Assessor/Mentor who has been present for the session.
Scenario One
If you are using this Practice Assessor / /Mentor update as a one of your
simulation events, you must document some bullet points for each question.
This will form part of the evidence of achieving the Sign-off Practice
Assessor/Mentor criteria.
You are the Sign Off Practice Assessor/Mentor to a final placement student. The
student you have been Practice Assessor/Mentoring has been meeting all
competencies required to date and has very good communication skills. Other staff
have also given very positive feedback to you about the student’s abilities. The clinical
unit you work in has recently been treating a well-known ‘B’ list celebrity for a condition
that your unit specializes in. This ‘celebrity’ has now been discharged but was an
inpatient for a number of days and you are aware that they are an active user of social
media as you have been following their Twitter account.
This morning a first year student, also on placement within your unit, asks you to look
at an image she has received on her phone from your mentee via the Snapchat social
media application. This image appears to show a ‘selfie’, of your mentee together with
the ‘celebrity’ smiling into the camera whilst at the same time giving a big hug to the
student nurse. In the background you can see another patient lying in a hospital bed
but they are out of focus and you cannot make out who this other person might be.
Focused activities:
1. Contextualise the scenario to your own setting/specialist area
2. Discuss how you could address this
3. Describe how you would give feedback to the student in a constructive and
supportive way
4. Discuss the professional implications of this scenario
This activity was used as a sign off scenario and …………………….demonstrated
appropriate knowledge and understanding of the Practice Assessor/Mentor role
Signature of sign off Practice
Assessor/Mentor………………………………………..date
…………………………………….
Scenario Two
If you are using this Practice Assessor /Mentor update as a one of your
simulation events, you must document some bullet points for each question.
This will form part of the evidence of achieving the Sign-off Practice
Assessor/Mentor criteria.
You are Practice Assessor/Mentoring a final placement student. At the preliminary
interview, you looked through the student’s ‘Ongoing Achievement Record and Skills
log’. The student has been signed off as competent in a specific skill. During a shift
you observe the student preparing to undertake this skill in what you perceive to be an
unsafe manner.
Focused activities:
1. Contextualise the scenario to your own setting/specialist area
2. Identify the immediate actions you would take
3. What would you do subsequently?
4. Discuss the professional implications of you as Sign-off Practice
Assessor/Mentor failing to act on an area of concern regarding a student’s
practice
This activity was used as a sign off scenario and …………………….demonstrated
appropriate knowledge and understanding of the Practice Assessor/Mentor role
Signature of sign off Practice
Assessor/Mentor………………………………………..date …………………………
Scenario Three
If you are using this Practice Assessor /Mentor update as a one of your
simulation events, you must document some bullet points for each question.
This will form part of the evidence of achieving the Sign-off Practice
Assessor/Mentor criteria.
Chris tells you at your initial meeting that he has been recently diagnosed with dyslexia
and that he is developing strategies to deal with it. He makes you aware that support
mechanisms have been put in place following a Disability Assessment by the
University Disability support team.
Focused activities:
1. Contextualise the scenario to your own setting/specialist area
2. Identify your obligations to the student
3. What actions would you take ?
4. Discuss the actions you would take if you had concerns over Chris’s ability to
practice safely
This activity was used as a sign off scenario and …………………….demonstrated
appropriate knowledge and understanding of the Practice Assessor/Mentor role
Signature of sign off Practice
Assessor/Mentor………………………………………..date ………………
Scenario Four
If you are using this Practice Assessor /Mentor update as a one of your simulation
events, you must document some bullet points for each question. This will form part
of the evidence of achieving the Sign-off Practice Assessor/Mentor criteria.
Francis/Frances is a student, who previously worked has a health care assistant;
he/she has 23 years’ experience. It is the first week of his/her placement, and you
have worked three shifts with him/her. He/she is very keen to learn, but you feel
exhausted and out of your depth because of the various enthusiastic questions he/she
continually poses.
Contextualise this scenarios to your own clinical situation.
a) Identify what are the issues each scenario raises that requires addressing
b) What would you do to facilitate the student’s learning?
c) What would you do in terms of assessment, documentation and further action?
This activity was used as a sign off scenario and …………………….demonstrated
appropriate knowledge and understanding of the Practice Assessor/Mentor role
Signature of sign off Practice
Assessor/Mentor………………………………………..date ……………………………
(Modified from NMC Reflective Account Form http://revalidation.nmc.org.uk/download-resources/forms-and-templates)
Foundation Trust Jude McKaig - [email protected] Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust Siobhan Zagajewski [email protected] Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust For advanced training /Primary Care Workforce Hub – GP practices in Leeds [email protected]