Flying Start England

Developing confident and capable health practitioners

Developing others

Developing others

Many of the activities within Flying Start England focus on developing your skills and knowledge as a newly qualified practitioner. However at some point the emphasis shifts to you facilitating learning in others, this may be with students, assistant practitioners or indeed patients/clients. It is a natural progression to share your knowledge with others, as you grow in confidence and capability in your first year of working.

Towards the end of your first year in practice, you will find opportunities to support individuals less experienced than yourself, and facilitate their learning. During this process take the opportunity to also reflect on your own growing development. When someone asks you a question that you cannot answer say so and go and find out the answer. Better still both of you should go and find the answer and compare answers.

Activities:

    Web Activity

    The newly qualified nurse or midwife as associate mentor/preceptor

    In their consultation paper on a standard to support learning and assessment in practice, the Nursing & Midwifery Council (2005b:9) state that “following a period to consolidate pre-registration learning, which should include a period of Preceptorship, the new registrant is ready to take on the role of associate mentor under the supervision of an experienced mentor.”

    RCN (2005) Guidance for mentors of student nurses and midwives: A RCN toolkit
    http://www.rcn.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/78677/002797.pdf

    Approximate time to complete: 1 hour 
    Web Activity

    What makes a good learning environment?

    List all the factors you can think of that contribute towards creating a good learning environment.

    Discuss your list with your preceptor – is there anything you have missed out? Identify one element which you both agree could be improved in your clinical area, think about how you could achieve improvement by working together or as a team.

    Approximate time to complete:  25 minutes
    Web Activity

    Helping Others Learn

    Identify a realistic opportunity for you to practice developing another person, for example by teaching a clinical skill, by being a “buddy” during induction, or by presenting information to your team. Have you thought about organising a local Flying Start England learning set or network? Construct an action plan and agree how it will be implemented and evaluated with your preceptor.

    Approximate time to complete:  30 minutes
    Web Activity

    Discussion Forum

    What contributes to a good learning environment where you work? Share your opinions and observations with the Flying Start England community. Think about any ways in which you could make improvements.

    Approximate time to complete:  20 minutes
    Web Activity

    Mentoring

    How can you help mentor other newly qualified practitioners? What does mentoring actually mean and what does it involve?

    www.coachingnetwork.org.uk

    Approximate time to complete:  15 minutes

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