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| Title: | An evaluation of An Bord Altranais on-line e-learning programme: introducing competence assessment |
| Authors: | Ryan, Ann Marie |
| Publisher: | An Bord Altranais (ABA) |
| Issue Date: | 2004 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/234295 |
| Type: | Report |
| Language: | en |
| Description: | Background
An Bord Altranais, like most statutory and regulatory nursing bodies worldwide, is
responsible for, and concerned with, the promotion of high standards of professional
education, training, practice and professional conduct among nurses and midwives. The
emphasis on "quality" through standards in education, practice and conduct is now
considered as being at the heart of clinical governance. Departments of health in the UK and
Europe now espouse similar principles under the general term "clinical governance". Clinical
governance is concerned with continuing professional development as well as issues of
audit, risk management and evidence- based practice.
Training institutions are expected to develop capabilities that will enable graduate nurses to
function efficiently in the workplace. This is the basis of the competency movement - for
each profession a number of necessary competencies should be identified. Educational
institutions and practice placements should then be judged in terms of the degree to which
they develop these competencies in their graduates (Bowden and Martin 1998).
The five domains of competence representing the level the student must achieve on
completion of the education programme for entry to the Register held by An Bord Altranais
are:
1. Professional/ ethical practice
2. Holistic approaches to care and the integration of knowledge
3. Interpersonal relationships
4. Organisation and management of care
5. Personal and professional development (ABA, 2000:14)
To fulfil its role, An Bord Altranais provides guidance for training institutions, sets standards
and makes, through Nurses Rules, 1988 (Amendment) Rules, 1998 and 1999, provision for
third level institutions to carry out assessments of students. An Bord (2003) has
acknowledged assessment as serving a gatekeeper function for those admitted to the professional register |
| Keywords: | NURSES
TRAINING
EDUCATION |
| Local subject classification: | E LEARNING |
| Appears in Collections: | Bord Altranais agus Cnáimseachais na hÉireann/Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
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