Patient and Carer Education Partnership
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We are a dynamic group who work in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen's University Belfast. Drawing on life experience we contribute to nurse education at all levels within the School from teaching undergraduate and post graduate students to contributing at a higher strategic level. The Forum was first developed in 2013 by Professor Kevin Gormley and Dr John Power. Over the past number of years under Dr Derek McLaughlin's leadership we have been increasingly involved in numerous activities for example teaching, curriculum planning and development, student recruitment and committee membership.
The new name Patient and Carer Education Partnership (PCEP) was developed by the forum members and staff over the past few months following discussion and consultation with all members. Because of the diversity within Nursing and Midwifery it is intended that the word 'Patient' is used as an umbrella term to include patients, clients, children, young people, mothers and carers etc across all specialties.
Our Aim is to:
- promote and participate in effective and meaningful co-production activities between patients, carers and staff within the school
- adopt an advisory role in the development and review of activities within the school
- foster innovative practice and shared learning from co-production activities
- build and maintain networks locally, nationally and internationally
- disseminate models of good practice within the school, the wider university and further a field
This initiative involves the implementation of a strategy for more effective qualitative and consistent involvement of health service users and carers in the education and clinical development of nursing and midwifery students. The intention is that teaching and training at the School should more effectively reflect and meet the needs of health service users and carers.
Whilst there is some significant degree of involvement in some fields of nursing and midwifery teaching and training at the moment, the intention is to further develop a more meaningful involvement with users and carers functioning more as co-educators, both in terms of teaching but also to help guide and develop the research focus of the school.
Guiding principles for this initiative involving users and carers will be equality of standing with the teaching and lecturing staff and the provision of effective educational and training support for those users and carers interested in becoming involved in this initiative.
There are some current very good examples of practice in terms of user and carer involvement and the intention is to both build on these but also to embrace the ideas for developing teaching and education, emanating from users and carers as co-educators.
This chart symbolises the extent to which the Forum are involved with the co-production of all Nursing and Midwifery education programmes at Queen’s University Belfast. It demonstrates the level of involvement the group have with each process of student engagement and programme development.
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