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Pre‐registration house officer training: a role for nurses in the new Foundation Programme?
Author(s) -
Vallis Jo,
Hesketh Anne,
Macpherson Stuart
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2929.2004.01845.x
Subject(s) - house officer , foundation (evidence) , pre registration , officer , medical education , training (meteorology) , medicine , senior house officer , psychology , nursing , family medicine , political science , geography , meteorology , law
Purpose To explore senior nurses' views of pre‐registration house officer (PRHO) training, including the scope for their contribution to the new Foundation Programme. Design Data reported here are drawn from a larger, national project, which aimed to identify a curriculum for the PRHO year. The project was based in the Education Development Unit, Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education (SCPMDE), Dundee. As part of the project, 40 semistructured interviews, each lasting about 1 hour, were held with senior nurses. Interviews were fully transcribed and coded in the qualitative software NVivo for further analysis. Codes were studied for emergent themes and categories. Participants Senior nurses (10 from each of the 4 postgraduate regions of Scotland), from diverse specialties. Results Data suggest considerable cross‐ regional/specialty consistency. Key emergent themes concerned the process of training as much as the educational outcomes. The nurses focused on the development of outcomes such as communication and teamworking in addition to clinical and practical skills. They guided the PRHOs informally, but were concerned that their own extended roles were detracting from this. Discussion Nurses are gaining increasingly advanced professional, clinical and practical skills. Traditionally, experienced nurses guide and support PRHOs, at least informally. Data collected suggested there may be scope for capitalising on their expertise, including formalising aspects of their contribution to the proposed PRHO Foundation Programme. However, this is a potentially sensitive area and more interprofessional dialogue is needed.