The team behind the implementation of the first digital version of the National Competency Assessment Document (NCAD) for nurses in Ireland will be telling their story at an online event on May 11^th 2023 between 11:00 and 13:00.

The MyCAD website was a collaborative project involving Axia Digital, HSE, and Atlantic Technological University‘s Department of Nursing. The site has been adopted and embraced by all those involved assessing students in hospitals and community settings and mirrors the paper NCAD document.

About the Event

The main purpose of the event will be to allow delegates to hear directly from the team about how their initial concerns and doubts on whether a digital solution would work (especially in the dispersed communities around Letterkenny) were allayed by the discovery of the benefits that an online solution can bring. The event will also feature Professor Thomas Kearns, Consultant and Co-Director WHO Collaborating Centre, who was one of the first to recognise the impact that digital solutions could have on the education and professional development of nurses. He has been a persuasive advocate of E-portfolios for many years.

The event’s Chair is Dr. Louise McBride, who is the current President of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, as well as being the Head of the Department of Nursing and Healthcare at ATU. It was Louise who saw the potential of adopting a digital approach to the practice assessment of nurses following her attendance at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI)’s annual conference. At the conference, a presentation was made by Bournemouth University of their OPALBU E-portfolio, which was being used by nurses and those that supported them.

Delegates will be shown MyCAD and receive reassurance about the measures which have been taken to ensure that the site is secure. They’ll also learn about how scalable the site is if other institutions in Ireland decided to adopt it.

Programme:

• 11.00 – Welcome by Dr. Louise McBride Head of Department of Nursing and Healthcare, Atlantic Technological University
• 11.10 – Professor Thomas Kearns Consultant and Co-Director WHO Collaborating Centre ‘Some reflections on the importance and benefits of those involved in the education and professional development on adopting digital solutions.’
• 11.20 – Mr Chris Peat Chair of Axia Digital (Ireland) will speak on ‘How the legitimate and important concerns about adopting a digital approach can be addressed and resolved
• 11.35 – Presentation of the digital version of the National Competency Assessment Document on the MyCad.ie site. This will include looking at the reports that are available
• 11.50 – An opportunity to respond to questions raised during the presentations using Chat, chaired by Dr. Louise McBride
• 12:00-12.30 – The User experience, an opportunity to hear from students, CPCs and Tutors who use MyCad.ie (This will include a presentation of a video which captures the user experience and the opportunity to then question those that were involved in the creation of the video. Following the event this video will be available to share with other colleagues.)
• 12.30 – Concluding remarks and opportunity to ask further questions

Recording of the Event

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Axia Digital will be holding a celebration event on Friday to mark its 20^th anniversary. The company is enjoying a period of growth in customers and staff and there are now over a million users of our sites worldwide.

The celebration event will provide an opportunity for the existing team to meet with previous Directors and employees.

Richard Etheridge the company’s Technical and Operations Director who has been with the company throughout the 20 years it has been in existence, comments that

‘The purpose of the event is to thank all those who have supported the company throughout the years. We are delighted that two of the original Directors Bronwen Robinson and Barrie Hopson will be attending. Without their support and that of other former Directors who be attending we would not have reached this important milestone.

Axia Digital is the trading name of Citizen Connect Ltd which was first registered as a company on November 12^th 1997.

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Continuous Professional Development is changing. Gone are the days when just counting CPD activities was enough, what matters now is that individuals are able to demonstrate a commitment to their development and evidence the impact CPD has had on their practice. Capturing that impact on paper is difficult. An e-portfolio makes it easier through providing greater inter activity.

We have a worked with a full range of professional bodies of all sizes in the UK and internationally, from ones with less than 250 members to others with more than half a million students,  to enable them to provide their members with a range of tools to help them plan and capture their CPD

Just some of the tools we have developed include:

• Planned Pathways on key topics to help members plan their CPD
• Pushing a record of a CPD event that a member attends, into their CPD record
• Inviting others to verify professional records and CPD activity
• Managing applications for accreditation from the professional body online
• Creating multiple reports from one CPD record.

Our distinctive offer is that we are able use these tools to handcraft each site to meet the specific needs of our partner professional bodies.

If you want to find out more we are holding a series of one hour online interactive workshops in which we will present our work and you will have an opportunity to ask questions.

The workshops will take place on;

• Monday 20^th March at 11.00 a.m.
• Wednesday 29^th March at 9.00 a.m.
• Friday 4^th April at 11.00 a.m.

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An additional workshop will also be held on Monday 23^rd January 2017 between 1.00 p.m. and 3.30 p.m. at the Executive Suite, Oxford Brookes University. Lunch will be provided, the event is FREE and there are no restrictions on the numbers attending from each University.

Universities who attended the workshops last week fed back that they found it useful to discuss the key issues involved in transitioning from paper to electronic portfolios and discovering the way these had been addressed at Southampton; Bournemouth and Surrey Universities. All these sites have now moved from a pilot to a full implementation and there are now over 11,500 active users at Southampton University.

The focus of the sessions was and will be on;

• Enhancing the user experience
• Accessing the sites
• Institutional Benefits
• Project Implementation

It was apparent that a number of Universities consider that revalidation provides an ideal opportunity to make this transition from paper to electronic portfolios.

If you want to book a place(s) at the workshop or arrange an individual meeting please contact our Customer Services Director Chris Peat by email chris@axia.email or phone him on 07771 996620.

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We are therefore holding a series of workshops across the country where we will share our knowledge and experience. They will be held over a lunchtime (12 noon to 14.00) and designed to allow the maximum amount of time for discussion and questions. It will not be a sales presentation although inevitably we will talk about our NOW.net platform but only in relation to how it has been used.

The workshops will be held on the following dates and venues;

• Tuesday 29^th November; Aberdare Hall, Cardiff University
• Wednesday 30^th November; The Athenaeum. Bury St. Edmunds
• Thursday 1^st December; The Executive Suite, Oxford Brookes University

Lunch will be provided, the event is FREE and there are no restrictions on the numbers attending from each University. If you want to book a place(s) please contact our Customer Services Director Chris Peat by email chris@axia.email or phone him on 07771 996620. He will then confirm your place and send you more details about the event.

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The NET conference draws together nurses from across the world and we are delighted to again be exhibiting at the event.

We have had the opportunity to speak to delegates from Universities in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the UK and it is apparent there is a growing interest in the online assessment of professional practice. It is therefore great that we have been able to talk about the successful introduction of our online system at the Universities of Southampton, Bournemouth and Surrey. Delegates have been impressed by the way we have managed to reflect the particular approach to practice assessment at each University.

A number of the delegates have discussed their concerns with respect to an online system. They have expressed concerns about signatures and they have been reassured that every decision in the portfolio is date stamped and linked back to a specific user name and password, arguably making it more secure than paper. Some delegates have wondered about whether they will need to supply their students with devices and have pleased to hear that this was not required at any of the Universities we work with. Others have wondered about the challenges of Hospital firewalls and pleased to hear that this has always been overcome.

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