It has been a while since our last student coordinator forum meeting. Since our previous meeting, there have been a couple of exciting developments about student supervision and support, and we are excited to reintroduce the quarterly teams meeting.
Next meeting - Tuesday 10/09/2024 - 14:30 to 15:30 - Student Coordinators Forum Meeting - Link
The purpose of the HHFT Learning Environment team (LET) is to provide high-quality placements for our pre-registration, non-medical learners and to support them to develop the right skills, values, and behaviours so that they can deliver high quality, safe patient care. We do this in partnership with our stakeholders who include clinical teams, universities and colleges and a range of organisations in the healthcare sector.
To achieve a high standard of learning experience in practical setting the NMC as well as the royal college of nurses suggest the establishment of nominated persons who will support the provision of these nursing experiences for students in practice.
In a project conducted by Health Education England -Reducing Pre-registration Attrition and Improving Retention (RePAIR, 2018) revealed an impressive 96% of students believed they had made the right choice by studying nursing. However, the project also revealed that clinical environment culture, among other factors affected attrition rate. Thus, to reduce the rate of attrition and ensure a sustainable future workforce of nurses and non-medical health professionals the role of the learning Environment team cannot be overestimated.
With the above factors in mind, the LET believes the creation of an established student Link forum will be a useful in ensuring that learners in HHFT have the right support they need in order in to have a positive learning experience.
- To develop a network of staff interested in supporting learners in practice.
- Provide a forum to discuss issues commonly encountered by pre-registration non-medical learners in HHFT.
- Collectively identify innovative ways of supporting learners in practice and sharing best practices.
- Promote effective communication, escalation procedures, and support for staff to raise concerns about struggling students.
Support learners in practice
- Allocation of nominated Practice assessors for each student.
- Organising off duty for students.
- Liaise with the learning environment team to ensure student have positive learning experience on the ward.
- Liaise with learning environment team regarding any concerns with students.
Contributing to quality assurance
- Support the learning environment team in keeping up to date database for number of practise supervisors and assessors in the clinical area.
- Contribute/ participate ward Audit meeting
- Maintaining student noticeboard, ward profile and student handbook
Membership shall comprise of all student coordinators in all clinical areas. The learning environment team shall endeavour to maintain up to date records of all student links/nominated persons in all clinical settings. Where necessary external members such as representatives from HEI’s and Students may be invited to participate or observe our meetings.
The student links forum shall aim to meet on Microsoft teams on quarterly basis and as needed. Meeting invites shall be created and shared by the learning environment team.
Actions and recommendations log shall be circulated to all members by the learning environment team. Meetings shall be chaired by a member of the learning environment team.
No quorum required to start meeting. Notes can be shared after meeting
