NET2019 - Introducing an evidence-based ‘Practice Assessment Toolkit’: Enhancing consistency and rigour of practice assessment in Midwifery and Nursing

This paper presents a ‘Practice Assessment Toolkit’ resulting from a national project exploring ‘Grading of Practice in Pre-registration Midwifery’ in the United Kingdom. This is linked directly to contemporary regulatory changes currently being implemented in Nursing and Midwifery pre-registration programmes. The Nursing and Midwifery Council requires new roles of ‘practice supervisor’, ‘practice assessor’ and ‘academic assessor’ to support and assess students in practice. This presentation will discuss how these evidence-based resources were developed and can be flexibly applied across professions in practice - including a set of key principles, a model and generic assessment tools.