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Standard 6 - Effective clinical learning

Standards

All students are provided with safe, effective, and inclusive clinical learning experiences. Each clinical learning environment has the governance and resources needed to deliver education and training. Students actively participate in their own education, learning from a range of people across a variety of settings.

Requirements

Accredited education institutions, together with delivery sites and training practices, must:

  1. ensure clinical learning facilities are adequate to support and deliver the RCVS Day One Skills for Veterinary Nurses, , across both delivery site and practice settings.

    This may be evidenced through:

    1. TP/aTP list including RCVS TP number
    2. TP/aTP approval and monitoring records
    3. Delivery site approval forms
    4. Consumable and equipment lists

    5. Memoranda of Understanding

    6. TP/aTP risk rating and support approach

    7. Secondment agreements
  2. ensure that students are enrolled with the RCVS prior to undertaking clinical practice to comply with legislation.

    This may be evidenced through:

    1. Enrolment policies and procedures
    2. Student handbook
    3. Clinical supervisor handbook
    4. Programme specification
  3. ensure students are actively learning and adequately supervised in all clinical learning environments.

    This may be evidenced through:

    1. TP/aTP Rotas
    2. Programme/qualification timetables
    3. Clinical practice records
    4. Job descriptions for educators, assessors and support staff
    5. Student feedback

    6. Quality assurance reports

    7. Clinical practice evaluations

    8. Clinical supervisor risk rating and support approach
    9. Tutorial records
  4. ensure clinical learning environments are provided for every student; these must be allocated for placement students. Clinical training must be undertaken within a RCVS listed training practice or auxiliary training practice, for a minimum duration of hours as stipulated in the RCVS Veterinary Nurse Registration Rules.

    This may be evidenced through:

    1. Clinical practice lists
    2. Clinical practice allocation process for placement students
    3. Clinical practice allocation for placement students
    4. Memoranda of Understanding
    5. Registers
    6. Record of Employment
    7. Programme/qualification specification
    8. Time tables
    9. Programme/qualification structure
    10. Self-assessment reports and action plans
    11. Clinical practice handbook
    12. Internal quality assurance visit strategy
  5.  all students must have sufficient time within the programme to achieve the RCVS Veterinary Nurse Registration Rules hours requirement, with the opportunity for contingencies if required.

    This may be evidenced through:

    1. Timetables
    2. Planned clinical practice model
    3. Programme/qualification specification
    4. Module/qualification descriptors
    5. Individual learning plans
    6. Clinical practice lists
    7. Student handbook
    8. Clinical supervisor handbook
    9. Attendance/absence policy or procedure
    10. Interruption to study policy
  6. ensure all students are allocated a clinical supervisor responsible for confirming competency RCVS Day One Skills for Veterinary Nurses. All clinical supervisors must be RVN or MRCVS (UK practising), be experienced and able to demonstrate an experienced level of clinical skills and ongoing professional development.

    This may be evidenced through:

    1. Curriculum Vitae
    2. Records of co-ordination and continuity of support and supervision
    3. Records of CPD to support role
    4. Job description and/or person specifications
    5. TP/aTP approval and monitoring records
    6. Policy for recruitment and training of clinical supervisors
    7. Clinical supervisor checks made by the delivery site
    8. Process for allocating and changing clinical supervisors
    9. Clinical supervisor risk rating and support approach
    10. Memoranda of Understanding
  7. maintain accurate records of student clinical learning environment attendance and when applicable, provide these to the RCVS.

    This may be evidenced through:

    1. Registers
    2. Records of employment
    3. Records of training
    4. Records of absence
  8. ensure there is sufficient TP support available for all recruited students.

    This may be evidenced through:

    1. Clinical practice allocations
    2. TP/aTP lists
    3. Memoranda of Understanding
    4. Secondment agreements and records
    5. Evidence of communication with primary affiliated delivery sites
    6. TP/aTP visit strategy
    7. TP/aTP approval and monitoring records and action plans
    8. Self-assessment reports and action plans
    9. Training practice recruitment policy
  9. ensure the TP or aTP is an RCVS listed practice.

    This may be evidenced through:

    1. TP/aTP lists with RCVS TP numbers
    2. Clinical practice allocations
  10. ensure that use of TPs not affiliated to the AEI are agreed with the primary AEI, and a robust MoU is in place with the TP.

    This may be evidenced through:

    1. Communication records
    2. Memoranda of understanding
    3. TP/aTP approval and monitoring records
  11. ensure clinical learning experiences are adapted to the student’s stage of learning, competences, and programme outcomes.

    This may be evidenced through:

    1. TP/aTP rotas
    2. Schemes of work
    3. Day One Skills recording tool audits
    4. Clinical practice records and action plans
    5. Individual learning plans
    6. Student handbooks
    7. Clinical practice handbooks
    8. Clinical Supervisor training and standardisation
    9. Tutorial records
    10. Reasonable adjustment policy
  12. the veterinary team contribute to learning in the clinical environment in accordance with the RCVS Codes of Professional Conduct.

    This may be evidenced through:

    1. Clinical practice records
    2. Staff codes of conduct
    3. Staff rotas/timetables
    4. Expert witness statements
    5. Team meeting minutes
    6. TP/aTP approval and monitoring records

    7. Memoranda of Understanding

    8. TP/aTP risk assessments

    9. Day One Skills sampling strategy
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