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Recording Your Learning

You can use one of the templates to record your learning. This can be used for KSF review, for maintaining registration or as part of your continuing professional development.

Keep Up-to-Date EasilyEffective Practitioner is constantly being updated. New information, learning activities and resources are being added on a regular basis. There will be an increasing range of multimedia such as podcasts/ digital stories to support learning so please keep having a look every so often to see what is new. The resource can also be accessed from a smart phone.

You can also sign up for email alerts to be sent when new resources are available at: EPalerts@nes.scot.nhs.uk

Help and TrainingEffective Practitioner is a self directed resource. However, if you or your team feel you would like some additional support please contact:

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Every pillar is worth spending time on, but don’t try to do all of the pillars in one go as you may feel overloaded with information. Set a time to return to the site and work through the next section.

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SELF-ASSESSMENT TOOL – CLINICAL PRACTICE

Pillar of Practice Self-Assessment Questions

How effective are you?

Green

Amber

Red

Clinical Practice

Promoting person centredness? Do you: • seek out and act on formal and informal feedback from

your patients and their carers on their experience?

• ensure that people are involved in making decisions about their care?

• support and enable people to manage their own health?

• appropriately involve the person's family, friends, and social network?

• provide care which is respectful of individual values, preferences and needs?

Learning ActivitiesEach activity will only take a short time and can be accessed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year - to suit the way you work.• There are a series of work-based learning

activities and resources across a number of interlinked priority areas.

• There are a number of activities in each section. • Each of the activities is linked to relevant KSF

dimensions. • It’s best to focus on activities from just one

section at a time.

Info CentreThis section is the central point for sharing and locating helpful information about the Effective Practitioner initiative. It contains updates, news and promotional material. It is useful for practitioners, managers and educators.

Self AssessmentThis is a good place to start. This simple tool will help you to work out how effective you are in your practice and where your learning needs are. By assessing yourself on specific knowledge and skills in each pillar of practice, you can see clearly what you do well and in which areas you could be more effective. This may link to your KSF development review and Personal Development Plan (PDP).

Downloadable self assessment tool and learning activities

Getting StartedAccess the Internet from any computer and go to Effective Practitioner at: www.effectivepractitioner.nes.scot.nhs.uk

There is no log in and you can dip in and out of it throughout your career. It will save you time by directing you to resources which can fill specific gaps in your knowledge, making it easier to keep up to date.

Effective Practitioner provides resources for work-based learning - it is not an online programme. You can download copies of the activities to share with your colleagues.

There are five sections:

• Practitioner• Supporting Your Staff• Learning & Development• Resources• Info Centre

Each section links to additional resources. It doesn’t matter which one you look at first and you don’t have to look at all the sections, just the ones you feel are appropriate to you.

There are 4 pillars:1. Clinical Practice2. Evidence, Research and Development3. Facilitating Learning4. Leadership

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