Moving midwifery placements online Terry Young (Online T&L Developer PLS)

1. Moving midwifery placements online • Terry Young (Online T&L Developer PLS) • Michelle Newton (BNBM Course Coordinator) • PebbleBash 2014 • 16th April

2. Midwifery placement documentation – where have we come from

3. Problems with the existing system…. • Potential for records to be misplaced, lost, never received, eaten by the dog….. • Report integrity questionable • student responsible for the final submission after the clinical educator has finalised the document • Limited reporting capacity • Audits on specific aspects require every report to be pulled from the file of the students • Administrative burden • Students requests for the reports

4. Moving to the on-line environment

5. Moving to the on-line environment

6. Moving to the on-line environment

7. Pilot of a first year clinical report tool

8. Outcomes - • Feedback from the pilot was extremely positive from all three user groups • Students: • Encouraged an ‘ownership’ of their placement documentation • Clinical educators: • More engaged in their responsibility of the clinical documentation • Provided insight into the reflective process of the students • Academic staff: • Ease of reporting clinical completion • Expedited release of results • Nor reliant on students physically delivering the reports • Confidence around integrity of reports

9. Outcomes Reusable “How to” Guidelines for staff developed

10. What might we do different?? • Increasing access on mobile platforms for ease of use in the clinical setting • Have a completion field that date, time and ID stamps the completing academic • Develop more FAQs for new user questions and issues • Create a simple timeline for user reference ie. who, what, when

11. Where to from here… • Reports in a Pebble Pad format to be progressively rolled across all years of the curriculum • Exploring capacity for tool to feed into a ‘Master Document’ what will collate the documented requirements from each placement • Taking it a step further – once acceptance is evident amongst users could explore moving the whole ‘Blue Book’ to the on-line environment (mobile platforms needed) • Establish automated reports linked to clinical placement progression • Identifying the student ‘at risk’ • Reporting to Registering Authority

12. Where to from here… • Consider more reflection activities which accompany the learning experiences logged • Investigate the design of a professional portfolio which the students may work toward • Aim to have a system design which is minimal maintenance and is sustainable • Based on the outcomes of this implementation, a whole course approach is under consideration. Many staff are now keen to use the toolsets.