1. Mentor Update
2016

2. Maintain Mentor Status
NMC Standards to Support Learning and Assessment In Practice (2008)
‘Initiate and respond to practice development to ensure safe and effective care is achieved and an effective learning environment is maintained’
Attend an annual Mentor Update
Mentor a minimum of 2 students every 3 years
Complete a review every 3 years with your manager, to appraise your performance as a mentor – triennial review
Can only do this by keeping updated in issue which effect nurse education
Keep your triennial review documents safe as you may be asked for them in an audit
The NMC requirements for Mentors
The NMC requirements for mentors remain unchanged and in the Standards to Support Learning and Assessment in Practice (SLAiP) (2008) sate that:
‘Mentors must demonstrate their knowledge, skills and competencies on an ongoing basis.’ By having:
Completed a mentor preparation programme (or equivalent)
Be annotated as a mentor on the local mentor register
Completing a triennial review to ensure that only those who continue to meet the requirements remain on the register
Mentored at least two students within the three year period. Nurses who make judgements about whether a student has achieved the required standards of proficiency for safe and effective practice must be on the same part or sub-part of the register as that which the student is intending to enter.
Participated in annual updating – to include an opportunity to meet and explore assessment and supervision issues with other mentors/practice teachers.
Explored as a group activity the validity and reliability of judgements made when assessing practice in challenging circumstances.
Mapped ongoing development in their role against the current NMC mentor standards.
Sign-off mentors must have met the additional sign-of mentor criteria and be annotated on the mentor register as a sign-off mentor

3. Mentor Update –NMC requirement
Discuss major changes in nurse education affecting students in practice placement.
Explore complex or challenging situations involving students in practice through scenarios
Demonstrate how mentors can fulfil their role set by the NMC by keeping up to date between annual updates through the website
support
Major changes can be discussed by using the discussion papers
Complex and challenging situations can be explored through the scenarios
Hyperlink to website

4. The Mentor Register
A local mentor register is kept by the Mentor Register Administrator in each Trust or organisation which contains:
Names and qualifications of mentors
Date of each mentors last update
Date of each mentors triennial review
Most mentors will receive notification of when they are due an update.
Most Trusts and PIVOs keep their mentor register on the Health Care Placements (PPQA) website. The Healthcare placements website will generate an automated to mentors who are out of date with their mentor update or their triennial review.
Some of the PIVO placements keep their own independent register

5. NMC Revalidation From April 2016 the NMC will require evidence of:
450 practice hrs (900 hrs if dual registration as nurse and midwife)
35 hrs of CPD including 20 hrs participatory
5 practice-related feedback accounts
5 written reflective accounts
Reflective discussions
Health & character declaration
Professional indemnity arrangements
Confirmation
Being an Up to Date Mentor could help with Re-Validation
For requirement 2 the NMC says:
You must have undertaken 35 hours of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) relevant to your scope of practice as a nurse or midwife, in the three year period since your registration was last renewed or you joined the register. Of these 35 hours, at least 20 must have included participatory learning.
Being an up to date mentor means:
Participatory learning includes any learning activity which involves interacting with other people. As a registered mentor you are expected to attend a face to face mentor update every year. Most of these updates take around 2 hours a significant proportion of this is engaged in discussion on practice related student issues. So over a three year period this can be classed as 6 hours toward requirement 2.
For requirement 3 the NMC says:
You must have obtained five pieces of practice-related feedback in the three year period since your registration was last renewed or you joined the register.
Feedback can come from a variety of sources, including patients, service users, students and colleagues. Feedback can also be obtained through reviewing complaints, team performance reports and serious event reviews.
You can use the student evaluations of their experience in your practice placement and the feedback received during your triennial review. To meet the expectations of your triennial review you need to have supported 2 students in the three years. This can include acting as a supervising mentor to a colleague undertaking the Mentor Preparation Programme and acting as a supervisor of midwives
For requirement 4 the NMC says:
You must have prepared five written reflective accounts in the three year period since your registration was last renewed or you joined the register. These reflective accounts should refer to an instance of your CPD, and/or a piece of practice-related feedback you have received, and/or an event or experience in your own professional practice, and how this relates to the Code.
You will have engaged in real world scenarios during your mentor updates which are directly and explicitly linked to the NMC Code (2015). Using the discussions you have had during these updates as the basis for reflections could provide you with some material to meet the requirement. You may also consider writing up your thoughts on any tripartite, grading or link lecturer meeting s you may have experienced.
For requirement 5 the NMC says:
You must have had a reflective discussion with another NMC registered nurse or midwife, covering your five written reflective accounts.
You can reflect on your accounts during your triennial review or within the face to face discussion groups in the mentor updates. In addition you may have a
A note of caution
Whilst being a mentor is very helpful in contributing toward meeting the requirements of revalidation it is worth noting that the NMC are looking for a variety of sources for your evidence.

6. DoHS Programmes
An overview of the pre registration nursing course to help with context of the routes to NMC registration

7. Educational Audit Regional Education Audit Tool (REAT)
Every practice placement
Every 2 years or earlier when adverse incidents impact on safe and effective learning
Carried out in partnership with LEM, link lecturer + senior nurse for education (i.e. PLF/PPF/Clinical lead for education)
Highlights areas for potential concern
Improves the contact and partnership between education and practice learning

8. Outcome of Educational Audit
Agree on the maximum capacity for all learners for the placement
Confirms that resources are available to support learners to achieve their learning outcomes
Records action plans, ongoing monitoring, follow up outcomes and deadlines.
Recorded on the PPQA website
Learners might be student other than undergraduate nurses

9. How important is feedback from your students?
Mentors must discuss and encourage the student to evaluate the practice experience at final interview
Students feedback about their learning experience in practice on the Healthcare Placements website.
A hyperlink is built into each Practice Experience workbook in the e- portfolio(PebblePad) to make the evaluation easy to find

10. Student Evaluation Students get an email reminder on the VLE
The LEM in each placement can view the evaluation in real time
A process is in place for the Link Lecturer to feed back evaluations
Mentors can use the evaluations in their triennial reviews and their re-validation

11. Escalating Concerns
What should a student do if they are concerned about practice they have witnessed? Refer to the ‘Practice Experience Concerns’ page on the Department of Health Science website
Hyperlink has been inserted to the website

12. Eportfolio Update ‘Activate page’ option Spoke experience tab
Supplementary work tab
Updated website – support/pebblepad
Forgotten password
Medicines Calculations
To activate a page so a mentor can make an entry on a page which the student has not ‘released’ or written on an Activate Page option is now available. This will appear on the yellow banner on the top of the page and by clicking on the activate page option the page will refresh and open the assessor fields
Spoke experiences are now viewed by clicking on the spoke experience tab in the Practice Experience Workbook. This keeps all the spoke experience documentation together in one area and will make it easier to find
Supplementary work area contains any additional reflections, activities or experiences that the student has documented.
The eportfolio website has had a major update and now has more information for mentors and for students.
If a mentor has forgotten their log in details – the username is always their full work address. Enter the address in the username on the log in page, click on ‘forgotten your password’ and follow the on screen instructions
Medicines calculations – see next slide

13. Assessing Medicines Management Calculations
Students must demonstrate in every practice experience that they can calculate medicine dosages without error in practice through:
Administration of medications using calculations under supervision
Assisting or discussing with service users or carers their medicine administration calculations
Scenario or simulation of medicines administration calculations
If the practice experience placement does not directly administer medications and the mentors feel that they are unable to assess the student simulation or scenario can be used.
The student might gain experience through spokes.

14. Calculating medicines
Students must be given an opportunity to practice medicines calculations with support from their mentor.
There has been a change to the medicines management calculations in PebblePad.
Students have a chance to practice the meds calculations with formative feedback from the mentor. The mentor sets 10 medicines calculations, the student gives their answers, the mentor marks them as correct or incorrect and if incorrect gives feedback.
This will help demonstrate learning and progression.

15. Help with E-portfolio (PebblePad)
E-portfolio Team – Fiona Powling, Jonathan Ayto, Danielle Simpson
Phone
01904 (32)1540
Visit
University of York, Seebohm Rowntree building office ATB/025 on the ground floor
Help and support is available from the eportfolio Team – Fiona Powling, Jonathan Ayto and Danielle Simpson.
s and phone messages will be answered ASAP and usually within 24 hours
There is usually someone in the office Monday to Friday – 16.30
If you are planning to visit it’s best to check that someone will be at home!!!!!

16. Practice Education Support Team
Based at the University of York, Department of Health Sciences
Support for mentors and students in practice placement
Allocations of students to practice placements
Mentor Preparation Programme
Website- ed-support
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17. NMC Standards to Support Learning and Assessment In Practice (2008)
NMC requirements are that mentors are competent in the following 8 domains
Establishing effective working relationships
Facilitation of learning
Assessment and accountability
Evaluation of learning
Creating an environment for learning
Context of practice
Evidence based practice
Leadership
Scenarios are based on the 8 domains that the NMC have identified as attributes needed for mentoring students. While discussing and considering the scenarios try to link them to one of the domains (more detailed descriptions of the domains are on the back pages of the scenario hand-outs)