NPSA 14 COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING and ASSESSMENT

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NPSA 14 COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING and ASSESSMENT

• United Lincolnshire Hospital Trust

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NPSA 14 COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING and ASSESSMENT

• Employs Approx 7000 staff
• 1800
• 8 Hospital Sites
• 4 Blood Banks

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NPSA 14 COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING and ASSESSMENT

• Collection Porters, Registered Workforce
• Unregistered Workforce
• (Assistant Practitioners
• HCSW)
• Administration- Register Nursing Staff,
• Assistant Practitioners
• Medical Staff
  

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NPSA 14 COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING and ASSESSMENT

• Must complete Induction/Mandatory Training
• E.learning available

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NPSA 14 COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING and ASSESSMENT

• Training Packs
• Cascade approach
• Observational Competency assessment (during
  practice or scenario)

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NPSA 14 COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING and ASSESSMENT

• NPSA Requirements are minimum standards
• Audit
• Annual Review of packs and assessment process

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NPSA 14 COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING and ASSESSMENT

• Staff already familiar with the style of training
  packs
• Ensure that departments took ownership of
  Transfusion Training
• In line with NPSA and Skills for health
  requirements

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NPSA 14 COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING and ASSESSMENT

• Criteria for assessors
• Collection All assessors should have a
  competencies in training and assessing eg NVQ
• Administration ENB 998, FLIPS, City Guilds 703
  Cert in Adult Education

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NPSA 14 COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING and ASSESSMENT
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NPSA 14 COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING and ASSESSMENT

KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT Did the candidate know and
understand the importance of
Both observational and knowledge sections must be
achieved to pass the assessment
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NPSA 14 COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING and ASSESSMENT

• Four Train the Trainer sessions one on each of
  the main Hospital sites
• Plus extra sessions of those areas unable to
  attend
• Staff attending were assessed using scenarios
• Ensuring that assessors were competent before
  they rolled out training in their own area

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NPSA 14 COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING and ASSESSMENT

• Cascade Approach to be used on ward under the
  supervision of the Clinical Educator for each
  ward area.
• With the Transfusion Practitioner as a source of
  support and information

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NPSA 14 COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING and ASSESSMENT

• Direct observation of a clinical episode not
  always possible due to shift changes. Some areas
  do not carry out Transfusions frequently
• Scenarios

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NPSA 14 COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING and ASSESSMENT

• Implementation
• Different approaches to Assessment may be needed
  dependant on areas
• AE have held training days with scenarios
• MDU direct observation of clinical episode

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NPSA 14 COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING and ASSESSMENT

• Challenges
• Getting all relevant staff to complete training
  assessment
• Approx 350 mainly nursing staff have completed
  training and assessment since beginning of
  November
• Staff that are new to Trust but have completed
  assessment in another Trust
• Is a 3 yearly update sufficient for staff who do
  not carry out Transfusions frequently??

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NPSA 14 COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING and ASSESSMENT

• Any Questions