- The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has announced the decision to start the proposed revalidation for nurses and midwives all over the UK on 1st April 2016
- Revalidation is a process that all nurses and midwives will need to engage with to demonstrate that they practise safely and effectively throughout their career.
- It is easy, straightforward and will help nurses and midwives develop as professionals (NMC, 2015). Revalidation replaces the previous Prep.
- Registered practitioners from England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland will be required to meet the new requirements for revalidation.
- GHPL provides support to complete your portfolio requirements for revalidation.
- For more information, contact us on 07852505517 or 02032834579
- Web reference: http://www.nmc.org.uk/standards/revalidation/
CHECKLIST OF REQUIREMENTS AND SUPPORTING EVIDENCE
- These are all of the requirements that you must meet in order to complete your revalidation and renew your registration every three years with the NMC.
| Requirements | Supporting evidence |
| 450 practice hours or 900 hours if revalidating as both nurse and midwife | Maintain a record of practice hours you have completed, including:
• dates of practice; • the number of hours you undertook; • name, address and postcode of the organisation; • scope of practice; • work setting; • a description of the work you undertook; and • evidence of those practice hours (such as timesheets, role profiles or job specifications). |
| 35 hours of Continuing professional development (of which 20 must be participatory) | Maintain accurate and verifiable records of your CPD activities, including:
• the CPD method (Examples of ‘CPD method’ are self-learning, online learning, course.); • a brief description of the topic and how it relates to your practice; • dates the CPD activity was undertaken; • the number of hours and participatory hours; • identification of the part of the Code most relevant to the CPD; and • evidence of the CPD activity (seehttp://www.nmc.org.uk/standards/revalidation/). |
| Five pieces of practice-related feedback | Notes of the content of the feedback and how you used it to improve your practice. This will be helpful for you to use when you are preparing your reflective accounts. Make sure your notes do not include any personal data |
| Five written reflective accounts | Five written reflective accounts that explain what you learnt from your CPD activity and/or feedback and/or an event or experience in your practice, how you changed or improved your work as a result, and how this is relevant to the Code. You must use the NMC form on page 47 and make sure your accounts do not include any personal data (seehttp://www.nmc.org.uk/standards/revalidation/ ). |
| Reflective discussion | A reflective discussion form which includes the name and NMC Pin number of the NMC-registered nurse or midwife that you had the discussion with as well as the date you had the discussion. You must use the NMC form on page 48 and this must be stored as a paper copy only. Make sure the discussion summary section does not contain any personal data (seehttp://www.nmc.org.uk/standards/revalidation/) |
| Health and character | You will make these declarations as part of your online revalidation application. |
| Professional indemnity arrangement | Evidence to demonstrate that you have an appropriate indemnity arrangement in place. Whether your indemnity arrangement is through your employer, membership of a professional body or through a private insurance arrangement. If your indemnity arrangement is provided through membership of a professional body or a private insurance arrangement, you will need to record the name of the professional body or provider |
| Confirmation | A confirmation form signed by your confirmer. You must use the NMC form on pages 49-51 and this must be stored as a paper copy only |
Web reference: http://www.nmc.org.uk/standards/revalidation/
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