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Document name: Document date: Copyright information: OpenLearn Study Unit: OpenLearn url: Fitness for practice 2015 Content is made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. Facilitating learning in practice http://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/facilitatinglearning-practice/content-section-overview Fitness for practice The purpose of the standards to support learning and assessment in practice is to assure the Council that those who make judgements of students have been appropriately prepared to assess performance in practice against the relevant NMC standards. Overall achievement of relevant standards of proficiency leads to registration or a qualification that is recorded on the register. Throughout an NMC approved programme, mentors/practice teachers (who are on the local register) will assess competence in practice and confirm that students are capable of safe and effective practice. Specific competencies for entry to the register or recording a qualification are clearly identified within each of the Standards of proficiency for nursing, midwifery or specialist community public health nursing (NMC 2004) and Standards for specialist education and practice (UKCC 1994). The NMC requires confirmation at the end of such programmes that both practice and theory parts of the programme have been successfully achieved. In practice settings a sign-off mentor or practice teacher will consider the practice evidence to make a judgement that all competencies have been met and that the student is considered proficient. They will then sign off the practice part of the programme. Sign-off mentors and practice teachers who sign off students as being proficient in practice are confirming to the programme provider that the student has met the defined NMC standards of proficiency and is capable of safe and effective practice. In addition, teachers of nurses, midwives and specialist community public health nurses who sign off successful completion of the approved programme for registration, or for recording a qualification, are confirming that all of the NMC programme requirements have been met. Mentors, practice teachers and teachers who sign off all, or part of the practice component of a programme leading to registration are accountable to the Council for their decisions. Confirmation by the mentor or practice teacher that the student is capable of safe and effective practice will be considered by the assessment board along with other assessed outcomes to determine whether the student has met all requirements for successful programme completion. Page 1 of 1