In order to submit your NMC Revalidation, you need to accumulate 5 pieces of practice related feedback in the three year period since your registration was last renewed or you joined the register.
In general, the practice-related feedback requirement is intended to encourage you to be more
responsive to the needs of patients and service users and those who care for them. In order to fulfill this requirement, you need to seek feedback from people you work with and care for and importantly you need to use the feedback that you receive to assess and make improvements to you practice.
How to meet the requirement?
Types of feedback you can received can be of various types for e.g. Feedback can be about your individual practice or about your team, ward, unit or organisation’s practice (you should be clear about the impact the feedback had on your practice). Basically, it can be formal or informal feedback, written or verbal feedback and positive or constructive feedback.
Sources of feedback can be
– feedback from patients, service users, carers or students as part of your day to day
practice
– feedback from colleagues such as nurses, midwives, nursing associates and other
healthcare professionals
– feedback from colleagues in management, on reception, in assistant positions, as well as
fellow teachers, researchers, academics or policy colleagues
– complaints
– team performance reports
– serious event reviews, and
– feedback received through your annual appraisal.
How to keep the record of feedback received?
You need to keep a note of the content of any feedback you obtain, including how
you used it to improve your practice. This will be helpful for you to use when you are preparing
your reflective accounts.
Remember, in any note you keep, you must not record any information that might identify an individual,
whether that individual is alive or deceased
Note – By reading this article, we believe that you have now understood that all feedback you need to prepare for your revalidation should not be necessarily positive or even addressed to you. You can take note of feedback received for your team or feedback you received from your appraiser during your appraisal time.
Example of completed feedback forms from NMC – Download here
NMC Template for entering Practice related feedback – Download Here
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