Posted 16 January 2023 - 10:00
Posted 16 January 2023 - 10:00
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QNI issues new education standards for community nurses
Queen’s Nursing Institute sets out guidance for the transition from a practice supervisor and practice assessor to community practice teacher role
Queen’s Nursing Institute sets out guidance for the transition from a practice supervisor and practice assessor to community practice teacher role
Community nurses will have new guidance for transitioning to practice teachers after the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) published its latest standards for teaching.
Standards align with the four pillars of advanced nursing practice
The new standards of education and practice for community teaching sets out guidance for the transition from a practice supervisor and practice assessor, to the role of a community practice teacher.
They align with the four pillars of advanced practice from Health Education England; clinical care, leadership and management, education and assessing learning along with evidence, research and development.
The new framework follows the withdrawal of the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) community nursing practice teacher standards in 2018.
Collaborative project ‘a testament to the leadership of registered nurses’
QNI chief executive Crystal Oldman said: ‘This genuinely collaborative project is a testament to the leadership of registered nurses in education and practice that will support future specialist practice qualification and specialist community public-health nursing learner development.’
Picture: Barney Newman
She added that the standards, which are made up of 73 points of guidance, aim to make an explicit knowledge framework that is required to support, supervise and assess a higher level of practice demonstrated by nurses completing an NMC approved post-registration programme.
A survey carried out by the QNI found that since the withdrawal of the previous standards there had been a ‘devaluing and dilution of the practice teacher role’. It was agreed that specific standards would help allow access to the higher award.
The project was led and managed by Queen’s nurse Angie Hack. She said: ‘The development of the QNI standards for community practice teaching has received overwhelming engagement, support and collaboration from diverse partners across practice and education.
‘These new standards will ensure there is a robust basis for contemporary and future education and practice development in place for registered nurses undertaking a specialist practice qualification and specialist community public health nursing programme.’
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