Migration by Portfolio to Part 3 of the NMC Register – why

bother?

Mel OttewillBrighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

SSHA Conference 2008

We will cover…• Background

• About the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing part of the NMC Register

• Migration by portfolio

• Demonstrating evidence

• Frequently asked questions…is it worth it?!

Background• Sexual Health Advisers – a professional group? • Reports highlighting need for registration of practitioners • Need to develop & deliver contemporary sexual health

services…individual & population level; service user voice

• How should the workforce develop?• Consultation by SSHA with DoH & NMC (& UKVPHR) Led to agreement to offer education leading to registration to future Sexual Health Advisers via the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Programme

Specialist Community Public Health Nursing

• Future preparation of SHAs (theory & practice) can be via the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Programme

• Based on 10 key principles of public health• From 2008 Universities may offer a pathway in

Sexual Health Advising alongside those preparing Health Visitors, School Nurses & Occupational Health Nurses

Migration by Portfolio• Opportunity to migrate by portfolio from Oct

2007-Dec 2009 if meet criteria• Application pack (4) & proforma from

www.nmc-uk.org• A number of HEIs have agreed to verify

portfolios (NMC website, annexe 8 of the SCPHN section)

• Registration entitles applicant to call themselves a specialist community public health nurse

• No academic award without undertaking the nursing programme (AP(E) L)

10 principles of public health: - Surveillance & assessment of the population’s health & wellbeing - Collaborative working for health & wellbeing - Working with, & for, communities to improve health & wellbeing - Developing health programmes & services & reducing inequalities - Policy & strategy development & implementation to improve health & wellbeing - Research & development to improve health & wellbeing - Promoting & protecting the population’s health & wellbeing - Developing quality & risk management within an evaluative culture - Strategic leadership for health & wellbeing - Ethically managing self, people & resources to improve health & wellbeing

Migration by portfolio - cont

• Each principle is sub-divided into a number of different factors eg. Collaborative working for health & wellbeing has 2 sub-divisions:

- Raise awareness about health & social wellbeing & related factors, services & resources

- Develop, sustain & evaluate collaborative work

Demonstrating evidence• You need to provide 3 pieces of ‘Knows-how’ &

3 pieces of ‘Shows-how’ evidence for each element of each of the 10 Principles

• You can use the same pieces of evidence multiple times!

• There are some key texts…• Groups of 2-4, for next 10mins pick one principle

& brain-storm what know-how & shows-how evidence you could use for each of the elements

• Feedback…Questions…?

Some key texts• Craig PM & Lindsay GM (Eds) (2000) Nursing

for Public Health. Population-based care• Burley S, Mitchell EE, Melling K, et al.(1997)

Contemporary Community Nursing• Mitcheson et al (2008) Public Health

Approaches to Practice. • Department of Health (2001) The national

strategy for sexual health and HIV• Medical Foundation for AIDS & Sexual Health

(2005) Recommended Standards for Sexual Health

Frequently asked questions• Do I have to do this? - No!• What power does Anne McNall’s document have? - It is a guidance document (English DoH)…reflecting the focus on public

health to tackle inequalities in sexual health. Considers developments in workforce to best meet future need. A vision document

• Why bother? - Advantages are…. - Disadvantages are…• In future, will everyone wanting to be a Sexual Health Adviser have to

do this course? - Depends on SHA adoption of the guidance & if development of the

workforce in this way is seen to best meet LDPs/respond to sexual health needs

• Who will fund me? - various possibilities…

Sources of support

• University SCPHN pathway lead/lecturer• Sexual Health Adviser’s who have

migrated by portfolio• Key texts• Professionals who have undertaken the

SCPHN programme• [modules/master classes to upskill in

deficit areas]

• Melanie.ottewill@bsuh.nhs.uk

• Jonathan.roberts@bsuh.nhs.uk

• Others?