Hello Paul
Generally I would totally agree with you, Paul – hence the “normally two years” post reg experience. I have taught well in excess of 1000 students and despite protestations from a number of applicants I have only taken two who had other experiences – one of them was academically able, had been qualified for approx one year and was already employed in the OH setting. 12 months clinical experience including employment in OH is better than 2 years experience working as a registered nurse in a nursing home.
As far as the NMC validating “direct entry” courses which confer SCPHN registration on graduation. I think the NMC were considering that at one stage. It was something about which I had significant reservations and raised that with Roger Thompson (can’t remember his title at the time but he is currently Director of Standards and Registrations) and the then NMC professional SCPHN adviser: a Health Visitor (HV). The flavour of our discussions were along the lines of “HV’s tell us that they don’t necessarily need to have covered all of RN nurse training in order to carry out the role of an HV”. My response was along the lines of: OH nurses do, clinical knowledge and skills underpin our practice. They seem to have dropped direct entry for now but who knows what may happen in the future.
Anne
On 17/06/2011 08:25, "Darcy, Paul" <[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi all,
It may be all well and good for a newly qualified RN to have the academic ability to enter onto a SCPHN course and pass their theoretical component with flying colours but I would be reluctant about accepting one onto my unit as a specialist nurse upon completion.
The 2 years post-registration experience especially from a variety of settings helps consolidate so much knowledge about anatomy/ physiology, disease processes, communication and observation skills and so on that would potentially be lost. If NMC were really advocating direct entry onto specialist courses post registration they may as well just redesign the pre-registration courses so that newly qualified nurses were SCPHN registered immediately.
Paul
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Subject: [OCC-HEALTH] entry to SCPHN programme
Dear All,
Has any one else read this? I am not sure if I am interpretting correctly, but is this saying that newly qualified nurses can start on the SCPHN programme, regardless of specific pathway?
What about post registrattion experience?
Thanks,
Tracy
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