Demonstrating Your Clinical Competence in Women's Health

by Campbell; Pam

• ISBN13: 9781857756050
• ISBN10: 1857756053
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-11-05
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

In order to receive re-registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, all registered nurses are required to keep portfolios that demonstrate their competence in clinical practice. In addition, they are encouraged to seek individual annual appraisals that highlight their progress and areas requiring development.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
About the authors	vii
Making the link: personal development plans, post-registration education and practice (PREP) and portfolios	1	(14)
The process of lifelong learning	1	(1)
Your personal development plan	2	(1)
Using portfolios for appraisal/individual performance review and PREP	3	(2)
Demonstrating the standards of your practice	5	(5)
Preparing your portfolio	10	(5)
Practical ways to identify your learning and service needs as part of your portfolio	15	(20)
Setting standards to show that you are competent	15	(1)
Identify your learning needs -- how you can find out if you need to be better at doing your job	16	(9)
Identify your service needs -- how you can find out if there are gaps in services or how you deliver care	25	(8)
Set priorities: how you match what's needed with what's possible	33	(2)
Demonstrating common components of good quality healthcare	35	(20)
Consent	35	(2)
Collecting data to demonstrate your learning, competence, performance and standards of service delivery: consent	37	(9)
Confidentiality	46	(2)
Collecting data to demonstrate your learning, competence, performance and standards of service delivery: confidentiality	48	(3)
Learning from complaints	51	(1)
Collecting data to demonstrate your learning, competence, performance and standards of service delivery: complaints	51	(4)
Women's health and lifestyle	55	(26)
What issues you should cover	55	(10)
Collecting data to demonstrate your learning, competence, performance and standards of service delivery	65	(16)
Contraception	81	(20)
What issues you should cover	81	(10)
Collecting data to demonstrate your learning, competence, performance and standards of service delivery	91	(10)
Sexually transmitted infections	101	(20)
What issues you should cover	101	(9)
Collecting data to demonstrate your learning, competence, performance and standards of service delivery	110	(11)
Managing infertility in primary care	121	(20)
What issues you should cover	122	(6)
Collecting data to demonstrate your learning, competence, performance and standards of service delivery	128	(13)
Vaginal bleeding problems in primary care	141	(22)
What issues you should cover	141	(12)
Collecting data to demonstrate your learning, competence, performance and standards of service delivery	153	(10)
The menopause	163	(24)
What issues you should cover	163	(10)
Collecting data to demonstrate your learning, competence, performance and standards of service delivery	173	(14)
Teenager-friendly healthcare	187	(16)
What issues you should cover	187	(6)
Collecting data to demonstrate your learning, competence, performance and standards of service delivery	193	(10)
And finally	203	(2)
Index	205