Notebook to support Practice (Nursing)
- Become a safe and effective practitioner
- Identify your challenges
- Develop skills and strategies
- Facilitate your development
- Supports and empowers you
- Fits in your pocket, making it perfect for quick reference
Specific skill areas
The Notebook covers 11 specific skill areas that nurses can encounter within their working day:
- Listening and writing skills (handover)
- Reading
- Memory
- Moving and handling
- Left/ right confusion
- Pronunciation
- Medicines administration and documentation
- Mathematics
- Time management/ organization
- Documentation
- Handover
Sample Notebook pages
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Aims of the Notebook
A tool to help you identify and develop your skills through:
- assisting you to identify your challenges
- aiding discussion with others on what strategies you can use, to overcome these challenges, and what support is needed
- developing strategies to become fit for purpose for your work place
Helping you become a safe and effective practitioner
The Nursing and Midwifery Council is currently concerned about newly qualified nurses being 'fit for practice' at time of registration (NMC 2006). For nurses to be considered 'fit for practice' they must be 'safe and effective practitioners'.
The Notebook to Support Practice will facilitate your development, helping you to become a 'safe and effective practitioner'.
Testimonials
We are featured in the NMC Circular (May 2007) with an article explaining the development of this Notebook.
Prominent reviewer's comments
"A terrific idea ...The notebook is neat, it is a useful, practical size and will fit easily into a pocket, an asset to students who want to access information easily and don’t necessarily want to draw attention to sources they are using. It is colourful, and robust enough to withstand regular access."
Sandra Crouch & Carol Chapelhow (School of Health, Community & Education studies, Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
"I feel that this booklet would be very useful for any student to use whilst they are working to become an effective practitioner .... Having information available to hand in one small booklet will help people to feel confident and prepared."
Karen State & Janet Hargreaves (University of Huddersfield)
