Embedding Reflective Reading Groups into your organisation: Supporting staff CPD.

Abbas BismillahHead of Library and Knowledge Services

Background

Sat in my office at Berkshire NHS Trust in a reflective mood

• 2015 RCN signalled revalidation was coming in 2016

• Nurses panic

• Where was I?

As professionals, we all have a duty to keep our professional

knowledge and skills up to date through a continuous

process of learning and reflection.

NMC revalidation requires that each nurse/midwife must complete 35 hours of CPD in

the 3 years since last revalidating.

NMC Revalidation –

what do you need to do?

“Is the process of reflection when reading, assessing and potentially applying what you’ve read into clinical practice.”

(Collins and Brown, 2015)

Source: Using reflection on reading for revalidation. Nursing Times - June 2015)

Reflective Reading

Athens gives you access to…

Searching

Reviewing

Linking

Action

The SRLA Reflective Tool

Promoting Reflective Reading

This is how the Reflective Reading Club works:

Individual Learning – 1.5hours CPD 1. You let us know you are interested. 2. We send you a short journal article and a small checklist of points to consider when reading it. Make notes as you read the paper in your own time and this earns you one and a half hours CPD time!

The Reflective Reading Club will look at: The right to be rude: managing conflict.

Participatory Learning – 1.5 hours CPD Our meetings takes just 1.5 hours

3. We meet for the club and discuss the article in a small

group, reflecting on points whilst working our way through

the checklist. Any notes that you make on the checklist can

be submitted into your portfolio as evidence of reflective

activities – this earns you another one and a half hours CPD

time!

4. YOU GET A CERTIFICATE of

participation and attendance!

The checklist will provide you with a framework to guide you through the process of reading, reflecting and putting into practice learning you have gained from a published article. It is based on the SRLA Tool (Searching, Reviewing, Linking & Action) designed by Collins & Brown (2015).

We would provide you with a short journal article, plus the checklist and ask that you read the paper at least once before the reflective reading club and that you make some initial notes using the checklist. It would also be useful to have a copy or online access to the NMC Code for Nurses and Midwives.

1. COLLINS, G., BROWN, J., HENSHAW, L. and WHITEHEAD, B., 2015. Using reflection on reading for revalidation. Nursing times, 111(23-24), pp. 14-16.

Reflective Reading Checklist

Searching

What are the key issues of this paper?

How are they relevant to you?

What new or reinforced learning can you take from this article?

Reviewing

How does this article link to aspects of the NMC Code?

How might the paper relate to the Trust’s Care Values?Safe | Personal | Effective

How is it relevant/potentially relevant to your own field of practice and that of your colleagues?

Linking

Has the group discussion/article raised issues or ideas that you hadn’t considered before?

Identify at least one action point that you can take away from your reading of this article e.g. passing on your learning to your colleagues, service improvement.

Action

Bradford Teaching Hospitals

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust• Group of OTs

• Including two students (UCLAN and LANCASTER)

• Students want to facilitate next session!

• Library will source article and promote

#reflectivereading#RRCELHT

Learning Points• Time to attend - Protected time is an issue

• Aim to offer RRC which are targeted e.g. one for OTs, e.g. one for Nursing (Bucks Health are offering to targeted groups)

ELHT enquiry

I am a midwife on central birth suite and I am interested in the reflective reading club. Is this something that is suitable for midwives?

• Library staff can either facilitate or run the sessions

• Reflective Reading Club virtually, twitter chat? Do you evidence your Twitter-based CPD? How can this be done?

Thank you and QA

Abbas BismillahHead of Library and Knowledge Services

abbas.bismillah@elht.nhs.uk