The article that appeared in the Nursing Times provides clear guidance on how to fully digitise the assessment of professional practice across a whole Health Sciences faculty. All students on the nursing, midwifery and allied health professional courses at the University of Southampton now use an e-Assessment of Professional Practice (eAoPP) tool.
If you want to know how they did it there is no better way to find out than to read the article appeared in the Nursing Times in 2015 and was written by the Project Managers, Pauline Morgan and Chloe Dyer.
The article shows that some of the potential barriers to adoption of such a system like access to computers and the internet were over stated. The site has been introduced without any need to supply computers or other devices.
The authors summarised the key success factors as follows:
- Stakeholders involvement
- Starting small and phased roll out
- Involvement of trust practice educators
- Student /staff education and dissemination
- Building capacity
- Just-in-time support
- Responding to feedback
- Collaborative working with contractor
Read the full article here.