Education
Network Education Principles
In meeting the learning needs of our network stakeholders, we are committed to delivering a co-developed programme of education ,meticulously and collaboratively adapted to the specific needs of network clinicians from all care areas including ward, community, and acute care to ensure that nurses, AHPs and junior doctors are equipped with the skills and knowledge they need to practice.
We want to ensure pitch and content are meeting the learning needs of Network clinicians so that they feel confident to deliver safe and effective care to Congenital Heart Disease patients throughout the lifetime of their care. By actively recruiting senior network educators and encouraging input, soliciting feedback, reassessing and re developing nursing teaching we aim to ensure content and pitch are ‘scaffolded’, building on previous sessions to enhance understanding. The importance of co designing Network education was brought home to our team after developing the first online NICU study day and piloting it for network educators, actively soliciting feedback and then redeveloping the programme to better meet the needs of Network clinicians.
For the One Heart education team, the holy grail is ‘workplace learning’. Our team, in collaboration with the expert specialist educators at Great Ormond Street Hospital are passionate about ensuring we use the latest innovations in education to transform the delivery of free specialist nursing education, nearer to home. Our zoom teaching days have been very well received but the feedback which is most impactful for our team has been hearing that NICU matrons live stream the zoom teaching in seminar or meeting rooms to ensure their entire multidisciplinary team are able to make use of sessions during the workday. It’s our goal to bring highly specialised, free, site-specific education programming into the Network workplace.
Workplace learning also means adapting our education to insert ourselves and our patient experience and expertise into the local working environment. Case studies and case histories form an elemental part of our didactic teaching and feedback from delegates always recognises the positive impact of this type of workplace learning in upskilling Network clinicians.
Our goal is to provide co developed competency-based education, freely available to all network stakeholders. With the Network website going live, there will be opportunities to pilot more varied learning and development activities and tools, offering flexibility in the uptake of highly specialised education and with a particular emphasis on clinicians who might struggle to access education – for instance shift workers and night time care workers.
The Network Team will focus not just on co designed education but co designed measurement of the impact of online learning within our organisation and that includes education provided for our Network partners. How do we intend to measure the impact of our skill-building and competency-based education programming in collaboration with our Network partners?
- Qualitative feedback from Network partners using our online courses and competencies
- Clinician engagement survey scores designed together with network educators
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