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These resources are set out by practice area.
Intensive care
- Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (2019) Guidelines for the Provision of Intensive Care Services (GPICS) V2. GPICS (2019) can be used as the definitive reference source for planning and delivery of UK Intensive Care Services
- Paediatric Critical Care Society (PICS) Quality Standards for the Care of Critically Ill Children
Perioperative
- Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine & Centre for Perioperative Care (2020) Guidance for Establishing and Delivering Enhanced Perioperative Care Services (England only)
Neonatal nurse staffing
- British Association of Perinatal Medicine (2019) Calculating Unit Cot numbers and Nurse Staffing Establishment and Determining Cot Capacity
- British Association of Perinatal Medicine (2010) Service standards for hospitals providing neonatal care
Nursing associates
- National Quality Board (2019) Safe, sustainable and productive staffing. An improvement resource for the deployment of nursing associates in secondary care
- National Quality Board (2019) Response to feedback on safe, sustainable and productive staffing
- National Quality Board (2016) Supporting NHS providers to deliver the right staff, with the right skills, in the right place at the right time
- NMC (2018) Standards of proficiency for registered nursing associates
Learning disability
- NHS England. The Learning Disability Improvement Standards for NHS Trusts
- HEE & Capital Nurse (2020) Learning Disability Nursing Workforce Best Practice Guide
- NHS England and NHS Improvement (2019) Performance against the learning disability improvement standards Findings from the benchmarking exercise
Education
- NMC. Principles of preceptorship
- NMC (2018) Standards of proficiency for registered nurses
- RCN. Practice Based Learning - professional resources
CPD principles
The principles are designed to guide individuals, employers and wider systems to create a culture of continuous improvement, workforce development and improve outcomes for service users. People working in the health and social care workforce operate in a changing, challenging and complex environment. Practicing safely and effectively, now and in the future is essential.
The five principles are that CPD and Lifelong Learning should:
- be each person’s responsibility and be made possible and supported by your employer
- benefit the service users
- improve the quality of service delivery
- be balanced and relevant to each person’s area of practice or employment
- be recorded and show the effect on each person’s area of practice.
See: Principles for CPD and Lifelong Learning
See also:
- England. Health Education England
- NI: Northern Ireland Practice and Education Council for Nursing and Midwifery (NIPEC)
- Scotland: NHS Education for Scotland
Maternity Services
- Royal College of Midwives (2016) Getting the Midwifery Workforce Right
- Royal College of Midwives (2016) RCM guidance on implementing the NICE safe staffing guideline on midwifery staffing in maternity settings