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The Standards of Proficiency
Standards of proficiency for nurses
Standards of proficiency for nurses - overview
Introduction
How the Standards of Proficiency for Nursing are structured
Platform 1: Being an accountable professional
Platform 2: Promoting health and preventing ill health
Platform 3: Assessing needs and planning care
Platform 4: Providing and evaluating care
Platform 5: Leading and managing nursing care and working in teams
Platform 6: Improving safety and quality of care
Platform 7: Coordinating care
Annexe A: Communication and relationship management skills
Annexe B: Nursing procedures
Glossary for proficiency in Nursing
Standards of proficiency for nursing associates
Standards of proficiency for nursing associates - overview
About our Standards
Platform 1: Being an accountable professional
Platform 2: Promoting health and preventing ill health
Platform 3: Provide and monitor care
Platform 4: Working in teams
Platform 5: Improving safety and quality of care
Platform 6: Contributing to integrated care
Annexe A: Communication and relationship management skills
Annexe B: Procedures to be undertaken by the nursing associate
Glossary
Standards of proficiency for midwives
Standards of proficiency for midwives - overview
Introduction to the Standards of Proficiency for Midwives
About our Standards
How to read these standards of proficiency
Domain 1: Being an accountable, autonomous, professional midwife
Domain 2: Safe and effective midwifery care: promoting and providing continuity of care and carer
Domain 3: Universal care for all women and newborn infants
Domain 4: Additional care for women and newborn infants with complications
Domain 5: Promoting excellence: the midwife as colleague, scholar and leader
Domain 6: The midwife as skilled practitioner
Domain 6: The midwife as skilled practitioner - overview
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Domain 6c
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Standards of proficiency for specialist community public health nurses (SCPHN)
Standards of proficiency for specialist community public health nurses (SCPHN) - overview
Introduction
Sphere of influence A: Autonomous specialist community public health nursing practice
Sphere of Influence B: Transforming specialist community public health nursing practice
Sphere of influence C: Promoting human rights and addressing inequalities:
Sphere of influence D: Population health
Sphere of influence E: Advancing public health services
Sphere of influence F: Leading and collaborating
Glossary
Standards of proficiency for community nursing specialist practice qualifications (SPQ)
Standards of proficiency for community nursing specialist practice qualifications (SPQ) - overview
Introduction
Platform 1: Being an accountable, autonomous professional and partner in care
Platform 2: Promoting health and wellbeing and preventing ill health
Platform 3: Assessing people’s abilities and needs, and planning care
Platform 4: Providing and evaluating evidence-based care
Platform 5: Leading, supporting and managing teams
Platform 6: Leading improvements in safety and quality of care
Platform 7: Care coordination and system leadership
Glossary for community nursing specialist practice qualifications (SPQ)
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Standards for post-registration programmes - overview
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Glossary
Standards for prescribing programmes
Standards for prescribing programmes - overview
Introduction
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The Royal Pharmaceutical Society Competency Framework
Titles, qualifications and formularies
The student journey
Selection, admission and progression
Curriculum
Practice learning
Supervision and assessment
Qualification to be awarded
Glossary
Standards framework for nursing and midwifery education
Standards framework for nursing and midwifery education - overview
About our standards
Introduction
Learning culture
Educational governance and quality
Student empowerment
Educators and assessors
Curricula and assessment
Glossary
Standards for student supervision and assessment
Standards for student supervision and assessment - overview
About our standards
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Glossary
Standards for pre-registration nursing associate programmes
Standards for pre-registration nursing associate programmes - overview
About our standards
Introduction
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Practice learning
Supervision and assessment
Qualification to be awarded
Glossary
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Guidance on raising concerns for nurses, midwives and nursing associates
Guidance on Whistleblowing to the NMC
Guidance on the professional duty of candour
Enabling Professionalism
Principles for supporting women's choices in maternity care
Principles for supporting women's choices in maternity care - overview
FAQs on the Principles of Women's Choices in Maternity Care
Glossary for supporting women's choices in maternity care
Principles of Advanced Practice
Principles of Preceptorship
Principles to support anti-racism in midwifery and nursing education and practice
Principles to support anti-racism in midwifery and nursing education and practice - overview
About
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Expectations
How to adopt anti-racism Principles and measure impact
Glossary
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Guidance for nurse assessors
Guidance on Indirect Supervision
Supporting information for our education and training standards
Supporting information for our education and training standards - overview
Introduction
Safeguarding students
Simulated Practice Learning
Practice placements for student midwives
Number of births to be achieved by student midwives
Guidance on using Social Media
Case studies
Practice learning experience case studies: for nursing programmes
Practice learning experience case studies: for nursing programmes - overview
Hospital setting - Adult: First year student nurse, Emma - case study
Hospital setting - Adult: Second year student nurse, Saima
Hospital setting - Adult: Third year student nurse, Darren
Community Mental Health Team
Community Adolescence Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
Hospital: Learning Disability Liaison Service and Rheumatology Outpatients
Haematology Ward
Hyponatraemia nursing case scenario
Community Children’s Nursing
Community based Learning Disability Case study
Acute care (children’s high dependency unit)
Practice learning experience case studies: for midwifery programmes
Practice learning experience case studies: for midwifery programmes - overview
Hyponatraemia maternity case scenario
Additional care for women and newborns with complications
Continuity of Care and Carer
Principles to support anti-racism in midwifery and nursing education and practice - anti racism case studies
Principles to support anti-racism in midwifery and nursing education and practice - anti racism case studies - overview
anti-racism case study: Samuel: resident-to-staff racism in adult social care 2
anti-racism case study: Danielle: racial bias in academic assessment
anti-racism case study: Michael: racialised perceptions of risk in mental health crisis
anti-racism case study: Jane: responding to racist requests in maternity care
anti-racism case study: Fatima: language access, cultural safety and clinical risk
anti-racism case study: Aisha and David: microaggressions and workplace racism
anti-racism case study: Adebisi: dignity, consent and assumptions in maternity care
anti-racism case study: Manjula: racialised stereotypes about pain in labour
anti-racism case study: Speaking up and organisational response
anti-racism case study: Promotion, readiness and racialised career progression
Learning from Gosport
Learning from Gosport - overview
Communication
Speaking up
Accountability
Record keeping
Good teamwork means better maternity care
Holistic care
The best midwifery care happens in partnership