Hello Deborah,
I am interested in your question because I am exploring mentoring as a
doctoral candidate. In New Zealand, mentoring refers to support for
graduates rather than undergraduates and my project is with new graduate
midwives. I had just put down an article written by Marion Drazek in the
Practising Midwife, September 2005 when I read your email.
My understanding from the article was that the NMC has criteria forming the
basis for referring a practitioner for lack of competence. This lists three
categories for referring a practitioner: the person is considered unfit to
practice safely and effectively, concerns have been drawn to her or his
attention, supervision or further training has not been effective.
Therefore I understood that supervisors were the people to whom concerns
such as yours were taken, and that the practitioner of concern was supported
to address competency shortfalls. Is this case from your experience or am I
misunderstanding the role of a supervisor and the idea of a supervised
practice programme? Very interested to understand the UK systems approach to
issues of competence,
Kind regards,
Sue Lennox
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Subject: unsafe practice
Dear All, is anyone aware of any guidance about dealing with unsafe practice
that has been unearthed in questionnaire research? I am at the proposal
stage.
Thanks
Deborah
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