The National Health Service Knowledge and Skills Framework and its implications for continuing professional development in nursing

2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinah Gould ◽  
Emma-Jane Berridge ◽  
Daniel Kelly
2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 373-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kehoe

With the arrival of clinical governance, psychiatrists working for the National Health Service (NHS) can no longer work in isolation, and commitment to both clinical effectiveness and continuing professional development (CPD) is expected and likely to become mandatory. Clinical governance gives clinical effectiveness a high priority within NHS organisations, both at primary and secondary care levels, together with clearer lines of accountability.


2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Gunn

As the age at which psychiatrists leave the National Health Service falls, and as the importance of CPD grows, there is an increasing urgency to assist the professional development and the licensing of portfolio practitioners. A survey undertaken to gain an impression of the experiences of this group of members of the Royal College of Psychiatrists highlighted considerable difficulties for some. Recommendations are made here both for individual members and for the CPD structures within the College. In particular, it is suggested that the College help with the appraisal of members who are outside managed organisations and that enhanced responsibilities be given to regional CPD coordinators. Individual members should see the peer group as the centre of their CPD activities, take a flexible approach to their own CPD, and advise other members of their peer group accordingly.


2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 310-312
Author(s):  
David J. Ogden

Higher specialist training in psychiatry requires the development of a broad range of knowledge and skills in a short space of time. However, a brief national survey of programme directors confirms reports from peers that structured, targeted teaching tends not to continue beyond completion of College Membership examinations. Exceptions to this rule are child and adolescent psychiatry and to a lesser extent psychotherapy, which reflects requirements laid out in the Higher Specialist Training Handbook (Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1998). Specialist registrars must therefore, using limited study time and funding, attempt to acquire knowledge from local and national courses. These, however, are usually aimed at more generic groups: for example, all health service specialist registrars or at consultants for fulfilment of continuing professional development.


2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Newby

Personal development plans (PDPs) are a central requirement to remaining in good standing for the Continuing Professional Development programme of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. They are also integral to the framework now agreed for consultant appraisal in the National Health Service. This paper sets out the context which makes PDPs increasingly important and discusses the link between appraisal and revalidation, covering ‘360-degree’ techniques such as Ramsey questionnaires (which may ultimately figure in revalidation mechanisms). It then describes the practicalities of generating PDPs, especially in peer group settings. Experience from pilot workshops is used to illustrate how PDPs can be made to work and how learning/developmental objectives can be made meaningful.


2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (11) ◽  
pp. 404-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Sugarman ◽  
Seshagiri Rao Nimmagadda

Independent psychiatry beyond the National Health Service (NHS) is growing in the UK. However the history of the College can lead it to be NHS-centred in its outlook. Psychiatrists engaged in ‘private practice’ have at times been excluded from their collegiate peer group. We explore here the underlying and challenging issues of professional values, stigma, and occupational motivation. In the spirit of its commitment to raising standards, it is pleasing that the College is beginning to look beyond the NHS, supporting the professional development of non-NHS members, and including them in quality initiatives. We must all discover the value for patients in an open and independent perspective on what drives psychiatry in the UK.


Pflege ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 417-423
Author(s):  
Elke Keinath

Im Artikel werden persönliche Erfahrungen als Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) in der Thoraxchirurgie im National Health Service (NHS) in Großbritannien geschildert. Die tägliche Routine wurde von sieben Kompetenzdomänen bestimmt, nämlich: Management des Gesundheits- und Krankheitszustandes des Patienten, Beziehungen zwischen Pflegeperson und Patient, Lehren und Unterrichten, professionelle Rolle, Leitung und Führung innerhalb der Patientenversorgung, Qualitätsmanagement sowie kulturelle und spirituelle Kompetenzen. Diese Elemente wurden durch die Zusatzqualifikation, selbstständig Medikamente verschreiben und verordnen zu dürfen, erweitert, was dazu beitrug, eine nahtlose Erbringung von Pflege- und Serviceleistungen zu gewähren. Die Position wurde zur zentralen Anlaufstelle im multi-professionellen Team und stellte eine kontinuierliche Weiterführung der Pflege von Patienten und ihren Familien sicher – auch über Krankenhausgrenzen hinweg.


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