How To Succeed In NMC Nursing Revalidation

We are coming to the end of 2015. In 2016, all nurses that are required to re-register will need to meet the new requirements of the NMC revalidation regulations. If you are not prepared and don’t meet these requirements then you will lose your ability to legally practice in the UK. There is some confusion over exactly what NMC revalidation entails and how to prepare for it. That is why we are offering these tips on how to succeed in NMC revalidation.

Discuss it With Your Supervisor

The NMC revalidation process consists of multiple requirements. Some of these are continuing professional education, documenting feedback, and conducting a discussion with another NMC licensed nurse. Your employer can help you with many of these requirements. In fact, NMC recommends that several of them be included with your regularly scheduled employer appraisals. This is why you should discuss the NMC revalidation requirements with your employer.

Educate Yourself

Any new process can be scary. As humans, it is our normal nature to resist change. Knowledge is a great way to combat this. That is why you should educate yourself about the NMC revalidation process, its requirements, and how to prepare for it. You can do this by reading the course that we created to help nurses through this process.

Start Your Documentation Now

A large part of the NMC revalidation is being able to document that you have completed the required activities such as practice hours, 35 hours of continuing professional education, five pieces of feedback related to your practice as a nurse, five written reflective accounts, a reflective discussion, and confirmation. It is important for you to start keeping the required documentation now to be ready to illustrate each of these during your NMC revalidation.

Here are some recommendations on what your NMC revalidation documentation should contain:

Keep a detailed list of your practice hours, where they occurred, dates, a description of the work you completed, and proof of these hours such as timesheets

Any continuing professional development activity that you complete including dates, where, course, how it relates to the Code, any certificates you receive, and a description of the course

Any feedback that you receive from carers, students, patients, service users, colleagues, midwives, etc.

Keep in mind, feedback can be written or verbal, formal or informal, constructive or positive

Take notes on how you use the feedback to improve your daily work.

Don’t include any information in your portfolio that can individually identify someone

The new NMC revalidation requirements are still undergoing review and fine tuning by NMC. But, even if there are some minor changes, they are here to stay. Learning how to succeed in NMC revalidation requires starting your portfolio now, educating yourself about the requirements, talking with your supervisor, and making sure that you are completing the continuing professional education requirements. We highly recommend that you get a copy of our NMC revalidation course. It provides in depth information that will help you even further. We wish you well in your upcoming NMC revalidation. Click here for more advanced revalidation secrets www.revalidationfornurses.co.uk brought to you by Foday k Ceesay, a nurse publisher, entrepreneur and publisher of many nursing books.