pp127 Facilitating Learning and Assessment in Practice

NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY in collaboration with MALAYSIAN ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES ACADEMY, MALAYSIA BSc (HONS) NURSING PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT PP 0127 ASSIGNMENT Facilitating Learning and Assessment in Practice I/C NO: 870402-08-6054 N U Student ID: 1404 1918 Cohort: 37 Word count: 2995 Introduction Mentorship is an integral role played by an experienced nurse to guide and train, less experienced nurse in their clinical area (Ali Panther, 2008). Mentors’ are required to facilitate learning in order to help nurses in developing essential skills and assess their proficiency in clinical practice (NMC, 2008). Within this portfolio I will show that I have facilitated learning and assessment in my practice area. I am a registered†¦show more content†¦In the learning contract, I asked her to fill up her own learning goals (Appendix 3). RN.J had the strong desire to learn and want to be a competent nurse. She emphasized to me that she will take all the initiative to learn and to gain the skill competency. Timmins (2002) describes learning contract encourages self-directed learning among learner’s to focus along their learning for improvement. Besides, Chan and Chien (2000) highlights, by using learning contract, effectiveness of learning increased among learners’. An individual effectively learns best through their preferred learning style (Frankel, 2009). Frankel (2009) also suggests consideration on individual learning styles is important in planning effective training programs for learners’. So, prior drafting lesson plan and teaching strategies for RN.J, I told her that I wanted to assess her learning style. I downloaded the Honey and Mumford Learning Style Questionnaires (LSQ) online and asked her to answer it (Appendix 4). According to Honey and Mumford (1992), their LSQ can be a selection tool for both learner and trainer to identify and decide the best learning experience opportunities for them on the job. Further, Honey and Mumford LSQ outcome categorize individual according to their learning style as an activist, reflector, theorist and pragmatist (Appendix 5). The (LSQ) revealed RN.J learning style was a pragmatist. An individual with pragmatist learning style benefits from what is learned