University Alliance calls for simulation in nursing training

"University Alliance, a collection of universities responsible for training 30% of the nursing workforce in England, has called for nurse training to incorporate simulation to help tackle the NHS workforce crisis.

In its briefing ‘Delivering the Healthcare Workforce of the Future’, the alliance highlights four areas where universities, the NHS and the government can work together to ensure more nurses can be trained quickly to the required high standards.

One of those areas is to fully embrace simulation in nursing training, something that the Nursing and Midwifery Council recently pushed for.

In January of this year, the Nursing and Midwifery Council approved changes to pre-registration education programme standards. This included the use of simulated practice learning. As a result, education institutions can now run innovative simulations for 600 of the 2,300 practice learning hours required by students.

University Alliance sees this as a welcome development and says “simulated training should now be invested in for the long-term”..." Lire la suite