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Maximising the impact of continuing professional education on practice. Liz Clark, Jan Draper and Shelagh Sparrow Faculty of Health and Social Care, The Open University and the OU–RCN Strategic Alliance. Workshop objectives. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Maximising the impact of continuing professional education on practice
Liz Clark, Jan Draper and Shelagh Sparrow
Faculty of Health and Social Care, The Open University and the OU–RCN Strategic Alliance
Workshop objectives To provide a brief overview of the development of
the Impact on Practice (ImP) framework
To demonstrate the online version of the framework
To interrogate the framework and discuss its potential use by healthcare educators (and other stakeholders) when designing, delivering and reviewing post-registration programmes
Workshop outline Introductions
Overview of the ImP project
Group work to interrogate the paper-based and online versions of the framework, prior to its early release and its evaluation phase
Feedback
Original aim of the ImP project:
The project was carried out between 2006 and 2008 and funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), as part of its Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF3)
To develop a tool to evaluate the impact of continuing professional education (CPE) on healthcare practice
Context
• Investment in continuing professional education (CPE)• Rhetoric of the benefits of CPE/lifelong learning• Evidence-based and outcomes-driven culture in
healthcare services and needs-led education• Lack of evidence of the added-value of CPE• Vulnerability to cut-backs in funding (e.g. 2006/07)
Masses of anecdotal evidence of the benefits of post
registration learning on nursing practice
Political drivers
Context (cont.)
• Small-scale and short-term studies in one locality• Over-reliance on learner satisfaction• Retrospective methods (errors of recall and bias)• Benefits to service users are assumed, but rarely
assessed directly
Limitations of current evidence
In-depth conversations with key stakeholders about the proposed project:
• employers• patients• students
According to stakeholders, what is needed is an approach that is… • Easy to understand and use• Not research• Not programme-specific• Dynamic• Cost-effective
Our approach
• Organisational culture• Role of the manager• Link between education provider and employer
Literature review (health and social care andeducation literature); emerging themes:
Contributions from an UK-wide Expert Advisory Group
Two interactive conference presentations (one national and one international) and a symposium
Our approach (cont.)
• commissioners of education• managers• health and social care educators• service users/representatives from patient
organisations• learners
Conversations with key stakeholders to develop/refine the framework:
The ImP Framework The four core domains of the ImP framework are:
• education provider• learner• manager• organisation
The patient/service user voice is reflected across all four
domains
The ImP framework
Learner
Education provider
Manager
Impact on Practice
TimeTime
Selection
During CPE
Post CPE
Pre-selection
CPE
© The Open University/Royal College of Nursing 2008
Time
Time
Impact on Practice
Organisation
Our journey so far… • Seizing the moment• Upstream thinking• Complexity vs ease of understanding/use
• Interrogation of framework by expert panel• Evaluation of this untested theoretical framework in a
range of healthcare settings
Next steps…
Group work
