PROJECTS

This page describes the projects the Forum are presently working on. There is also information about completed projects.

If you would like to contribute to any of the current projects, please complete the Project form.

Facilitation Toolkit Working Group

This group are meeting to develop an online Facilitation Toolkit. This will be a section of the website that individuals can access and download tools to aid them in facilitation. It is envisaged that this will be a dynamic section of the website which any member can contribute to on an ongoing basis. If you would like to join this group, or contribute with any facilitation tools that you are currently using and find useful, please contact one of the group members. Group members: Caroline Scott; Kevin Hurst; Joyce Surfleet; Kate Cocozza.

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Practice Development Strategy Working Group

Purpose of Group

To develop a template / guidance for the "process of writing a PD strategy".

Actions

• Plan collaboration with QIS PDU

• Literature Search for writing strategies

• Identify current strategies in Scotland

• Identify strategies in England/Ireland/Wales

• Review of literature current strategies

Membership Remit

All PPDNF members are welcome to join this group.

• Join group by contacting Ann Rae/Fiona Cook or through the website.

• Attendance at approx 3 meetings

• Regular email / phone communication

• Active involvement in group remit

Current Group Members: Ann Rae; Fiona Cook; Penny Bond; Susan Begg; Irene Lavery; Judy Taylor; Karen Bell.

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Clinical Competency Self Assessment Tool

Assessment of clinical competence is a challenge that faces us all. How do we know when we are competent and how do we maintain competence. The six principles that govern the adjustment of the scope of professional practice (U.K.C.C. 1992) gave nurses a new freedom to tailor care to their patients’ needs. However interpretation of these principles differs from Trust to Trust and from nurse to nurse.

To help address this problem the Professional and Practice Development Nurses Forum (PPDNF) set up a working group to develop a tool which would aid nurses self-assess their own competency in any clinical area. This tool was designed to encourage nurses to reflect on a chosen area of practice and consider its’ evidence base together with their own knowledge and competence in this area. An action plan was included to allow for the recording of plans to develop practice where required. A formal audit of the tool was carried out April/May 1998 and findings acted upon.

The National Board for Scotland (NBS) Network Project was happy to support the tool and saw that it complemented the work carried out in the Network Project. This support allowed the PPDNF to publish and distribute a launch pack to trusts and universities throughout Scotland. The launch pack includes copies of the competency self-assessment tool and offers recipients the opportunity to purchase the teaching pack. This was distributed in October 1999 with the tool being officially launched at the PPDNF conference November 1999.

A Teaching Pack has been designed to accompany the tool to enable Trusts to introduce the tool to nursing staff. The Teaching Pack includes slides, overheads, a Power Point Presentation Disc, presenter’s notes and a printing resource to allow trusts to print the competency self-assessment tool for their own staff. To date 26 packs have been purchased by hospital trusts and universities from all over Scotland.

Plans are already underway to further evaluate this tool. In the meantime it is hoped that the tool will enable nurses to reflect on their practice and help ensure that the care planned for their patients is based on the best evidence available. The tool will also provide documented evidence for the UKCC’s PREP requirements. On a larger scale the correct use of the tool should help trusts meet the government’s agenda for Clinical Governance and Clinical Effectiveness.

Reference
United Kingdom Central Council (1992) Scope of Professional Practice. London: U.K.C.C.

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Benchmarking Tool

The Benchmarking Tool is now available to view online or download in PDF format. You can also give your feedback online.

Risk Management Tool for Practice Development

Risk management is an integral part of the Clinical Governance agenda and along with other quality initiatives has the overall aim of improving care. Risk management is about identifying risk, evaluating potential consequences and determining the most effective method of controlling or responding to risk...

Read more online, or download the Risk Management Tool in Word format (final version - added February 2007)

Give your feedback about the Risk Management Tool.

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Competencies for Practice Development Nurses

One of the projects undertaken by the PPDNF members has been to develop
competencies for practice development nurses. These are now available online and are being consulted on. Your feedback would be valued.

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