This area is designed for all supervisors and assessors of nursing students at ARU.
It will provide you with resources and information to help you successfully support, supervise and assess nursing students within the practice setting.
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It is the responsibility of learners to notify their placement if they are not able to attend. Learners must ensure that they formally notify the placement area, using the correct local procedures, if they're unable to attend placement for any reason.
Good practice is to call before the shift is due to start and learners should ensure that a that a record is kept of the name of the person spoken with and the date/time of the phone call. Learners must follow their placement provider's policies, and this may include calling in on each day they are not attending placement (unless they have a medical certificate which indicates they will be off sick for a period).
The learner then records their absence in the MyProgress ePAD.
The nursing curriculum is based on the NMC (2018) Future Nurse: Standards of Proficiency for registered nurses. The video below provides a helpful overview of the key tenets of the Standards.
Find out more about the Future Nurse Standards (PDF).
The support and supervision of learners in placement areas are underpinned by the NMC (2018) Standards for Student Supervision and Support. Find out more about your professional responsibility as a supervisor or assessor.
At ARU, students are using the ePAD platform for their Practice Assessment Documentation. Find out more about ePAD, including support and guidance for supervisors and assessors.
View documents of all three parts (years) of the Practice Assessment document: