Learning hub for practice supervisors supporting trainees on the MSc Rural Advanced Practice programme
Welcome
A very warm welcome to this Rural Workplace Advanced Practice Supervision Hub.
The purpose of this hub is to provide education to enable sustainable health and social care service improvement, wellbeing and JOY in living and working in a remote, rural and island settings.
Recognising the challenges in providing effective rural practice supervision and to support the implementation of the new MSc in Rural Advanced Practice, this Supervision Hub will provide learning resources for rural practice supervisors that promote excellence in rural practice supervision.
Dr Pam Nicoll, Associate Director/ Remote and Rural
Dr Pam Nicoll is an Associate Director within the Medical Directorate of NHS Education for Scotland. Pam is leading on the establishment of the National Centre for Remote and Rural Health and Social Care as a joint programme of work between NHS Education for Scotland and the Scottish Government. Pam previously developed and led the Remote and Rural Healthcare Education Alliance (RRHEAL) from 2008 until June 2022. RRHEAL has responsibility for coordinating remote, rural and island healthcare education development across Scotland. RRHEAL are committed to the development of affordable and accessible education that makes best use of digital technology for the remote, rural and island workforce to help sustain and improve healthcare services.
Pam is passionate about good quality inclusive healthcare education and has worked in NHS in Scotland and England for over thirty years in clinical, educational and senior management roles. Pam graduated from the University of Glasgow and has undertaken postgraduate research and study with the University of Strathclyde and University of Highland and Islands. Pam’s PhD research work focussed on the effective evaluation of technology enhanced learning for health and care staff.
What the hub is...
The Rural Workplace Advanced Practice Supervision Hub will provide a sustainable, supported, accessible web-based, digital platform to:
- Connect multidisciplinary Rural Practice Supervisors nationally who might not have the opportunity to interact.
- Provide a shared context for people to communicate and share information and personal experiences in a way that builds understanding and insight.
- Enable dialogue between multidisciplinary rural practitioners to explore new possibilities, solve challenging R&R problems and create new, mutually beneficial opportunities.
- Stimulate learning, by serving as a vehicle for effective communication, coaching and self-reflection.
- Capture and share existing knowledge to help rural supervisors improve their practice by providing a forum to identify solutions to problems and a process to collect, evaluate and develop best practice.
- Introduce collaborative processes to the multidisciplinary group and Rural Health Boards to encourage the free flow of ideas and exchange information.
- Generate new knowledge to help members transform their practice to accommodate changes in Rural needs and technologies and achieve excellence in Rural Practice Supervision.
Living in remote, rural and island communities
Community engagement is an important element of rural life and should be part of local and national planning for rural workforce initiatives.
“Not about us without us.” ('Making it Work' 2019)
View the Framework for Remote Rural Workforce Stability ('Making it Work' 2019)
A video will be added shortly on community members sharing their experiences and joy of living in remote, rural and island communities.
Review Process
All NES resources on Turas will undergo a process of review after two years of the relevant date on the resource (i.e. the date of publication or date of last review). All resources that are older than three years will be removed from Turas until they have been reviewed. If you have any concerns about the content of our resources, please contact the National Centre team at nes.ruralteam@nhs.scot
Rural Advanced Practice Supervision Hub Privacy Notice
The Rural Advanced Practice Supervision Hub Privacy Notice explains our approach to privacy when dealing with information we gather.
Feedback
We are interested to know what you think of the RAP Supervision Hub and have created this short survey for you to share your thoughts and suggestions, or you can email us at nes.ruralteam@nhs.scot
Thank you.