Pre-registration Education
NES will promote excellence in pre-registration nursing and midwifery education by working with universities, service providers and the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) to ensure the delivery of pre-registration nursing and midwifery education standards.
Outcome
A consistent and evidence based range of undergraduate programmes which meet regulatory standards and provide new graduate nurses and midwives who are competent to delivery safe, effective, person centred care.
Benefit
Nursing and Midwifery students across Scotland receive the highest quality, contemporary and evidence based learning experience within university and practice components of their programmes.
A graduate nursing and midwifery workforce focussed on delivering the highest quality safe, effective and person centred care to the people of Scotland.
Sample Activity
- A robust system of review of nursing and midwifery of programmes at designated universities is in place and we are providing facilitated national collaborative workshops for sharing best practice in the development of new programmes to achieve consistency, transferability and evidence base.
- We will support the embedding of education resources to reflect the Scottish policy context in all new programmes, for example, on patient safety or on quality improvement.
- The practice education facilitators will help mentors do their job and contribute to dynamic learning environments which ensure NMC standards are met.
- To foster best practice in the recruitment, selection and retention of nursing and midwifery student, we will provide an integrated set of initiatives in partnership with the universities and Scotlands Colleges, the service, health trade unions and professional bodies such as the Royal College of Midwives.
