Module - Developing Mentoring & Assessment in Diverse Clinical Environments
The module aims to provide registered healthcare professionals with the opportunity to examine theories which underpin approaches to learning, facilitation, assessment and support in practice-based settings. This will enable them to apply their skills and effectively fulfil their role as a mentor / practice educator, practice supervisor or practice assessor in professional practice taking into account their responsibility and accountability for teaching and learning.
Course Overview
This module will cover: principles of mentorship which incorporates evidence based practice, leadership, professional role modelling, diversity, equality and inclusivity. It will examine mentoring in different professional contexts; The module will also look at mentoring throughout the student practice placement journey - from induction to placement evaluation. The module examines learning theories and their uses in practice; principles of assessment, accountability, responsibility and failure to fail; feedback and difficult conversations; ‘Toxic’ mentoring; reflective case studies.
On this course you will...
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of: management and organisational issues, working relationships and inter-professional team working, of everyone involved in effective mentoring placements, which recognises the diversity of all individuals involved in practice
- Explore and apply the theories of learning and teaching and contemporary approaches to mentorship to facilitate learning within practice based settings
- Appraise and evaluate the principles of assessment in diverse clinical environments with consideration of leadership, accountability, responsibility and failure to fail with reference to your own professional code.
- Critically analyse how learning from this module has transformed your understanding of your practice
Location
Distance Learning
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