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A guide to the NMC emergency standards for nurse education during the current deployment of student nurses
Abstract
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) recognises the important contribution that nursing students are making to the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This article reports on the Greater Manchester Supervision and Delegation Framework, providing practical guidance for students and practice staff (practice supervisor/practice assessor and registered nurse) on how to support student nurses who have opted into a paid (deployed) healthcare role. The framework operationalises NMC emergency standards for Nursing and Midwifery education, enabling students to complete their pre-registration undergraduate or postgraduate nursing programme while also supporting the healthcare workforce (
The nursing profession globally is facing unprecedented times owing to the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) (Leigh et al, 2020) that has been labelled a pandemic by the World Health Organization (2020). A pandemic describes an infectious disease where we see significant and ongoing person-to-person spread in multiple countries around the world at the same time.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) recognises the important contribution that nursing students are making to the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact that the pandemic is having on those who are studying. They have therefore produced an emergency set of education standards enabling students to complete their pre-registration undergraduate or postgraduate nursing programme while also supporting the healthcare workforce (NMC, 2020). Supporting the workforce includes students opting into a paid or deployed role in clinical practice while being appropriately supported and supervised and having protected learning time. These NMC standards are temporary and will no longer apply after the emergency period.
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