
Supervision, Learning and Assessment in Clinical Practice
A Guide for Nurses, Midwives and Other Health Professionals
- 4th Edition - May 27, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Sue Woodward, Sam Bassett
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 7 7 6 0 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 7 7 6 1 - 6
Fully updated to comply with the latest Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and Health Professional Council (HPC) guidelines, this fourth edition of Supervision, Learning and As… Read more
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- Comprehensive Guidance: Practical strategies to manage the complexities and challenges of mentoring, learning, and assessing in clinical practice
- Focus on Accountability: Critical exploration of professional responsibility and accountability, including the legal ramifications surrounding clinical assessment
- Inclusive Education: Enhanced focus on meeting the needs of students with special requirements, including those with dyslexia, in compliance with the Disability Act of 2010
- Regulatory Alignment: Direct application for mentoring and assessment of health care students in professions regulated by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Professional Conduct: New material on monitoring and assessing professional conduct and behaviours, including a comprehensive list of professional behaviours for assessment
- Addressing 'Failure to Fail': Practical advice on managing assessment problems, including when students need to be failed and why assessors often give underperforming students the benefit of the doubt
1 The Purposes and Nature of Assessment
and Clinical Assessment
2 Responsibility and Accountability Surrounding
Clinical Assessment
3 What Do We Assess?
4 How Do We Assess?
5 Conducting Defensible and Fair Assessments
6 Assessment as a Process to Support Learning
7 Monitoring Progress, Managing Feedback
and Making Assessment Decisions
8 Clinical Learning Environment as a Setting for
Learning and Professional Development
9 Learning through Clinical Practice: Unearthing
Meaning from Experience
Appendix 1: Declaration of Good Health and Good
Character in Support of an Application for
Admission to a Part of the Nursing and
Midwifery Council’s Professional Register
Appendix 2: Sample Unit With Its Elements and One
Element of Competence With Its Associated
Performance Criteria
Appendix 3: Skills Checklist
Appendix 4: Professional Behaviours Inventory
Index
- Edition: 4
- Published: May 27, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
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