Hi Sam, Hope you're well. This is an interesting question. As Outi says most of the points are good practice. If your course is Accredited by the RCN they only require attendance records to be kept for 1 year, but on the other hand nurses follow a 3 year re-accreditation cycle so I suppose soeone could ask you to confirm thir attendance for up to three years. The Royal College of Physicians uses a 5 year rolling cyle of CPD - so maybe that's where the 5 years comes from? Beverley Hixon Deputy Librarian Wexham Park Hospital Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Slough SL2 4HL Tel. 01753 634190 Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ________________________________ From: UK medical/ health care library community / information workers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Burgess, Sam Sent: 09 April 2010 11:32 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Friday Question! Hi all - the email below landed in my inbox this morning - a Friday question if I ever saw one! I have had a good rummage around but just cannot find anything remotely connected to the query - does anyone have any ideas or actually know what this is about!? Thanks Sam ________________________________ Hi I am writing a presentation around teaching of carers and I remember Sue telling us that for all teaching sessions we must: Write a lesson plan have a list of attendees Evaluate learning (e.g. by evaluation sheet) keep records of above for 5 years, I think she said it came from NMC do you know where I can find the reference? Many thanks Judy ________________________________ Miss Sam Burgess BA(Hons) MCLIP Head Librarian Academy Library and Information Service Swindon & North Wilts Health & Social Care Academy Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Great Western Hospital Marlborough Road Swindon Wiltshire SN3 6BB [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> NB: As I am deaf, I do NOT use the telephone personally. But you can contact the Library on 01793 604593 / 6 ________________________________ Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Great Western Hospital Marlborough Road Swindon SN3 6BB Tel 01793 60 40 20 http://www.gwh.nhs.uk Register to become a member of the Trust at https://members.gwh.nhs.uk This message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual(s) addressed. If you believe you have received this e-mail in error, disclosing, copying, distributing or retaining this message, or any part of it, is strictly prohibited; please notify the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. All messages sent by the Trust are checked for viruses but this does not, and cannot, guarantee that a virus has not been transmitted. The Trust accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted with this e-mail. ________________________________ HWPH Notice: ------------------------------ Recipients should be aware that all emails sent and received by this Trust are subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and therefore may be disclosed to a third party, subject to the requirements of the DPA and confidentiality of patient information. Please inform us if this message has gone astray - before deleting it - by emailing mailto:[log in to unmask] with RETURN as the subject-line.