Using the PAN Midlands, Yorkshire and East Practice Assessment document and Overall Achievement Record

The Midlands, Yorkshire, North East and East Practice Assessment Document (MYE PAD) has been developed by the Pan London Practice Learning Group in collaboration with practice partners, mentors, academic staff, students and service users across London, the Midlands, Yorkshire North East and the East of England regions. The MYEPAD is designed to support nursing students to achieve the criteria set out in the Future Nurse: Standards of proficiency for registered nurses, (NMC 2018). MYE PAD was launched in September 2019 and it will be in use by all universities within the group from September 2020. Some Universities have a paper based MYEPAD and some are using an electronic PAD.

• Listen to the Podcast which explains the MYEPAD
• Guide to the MYEPAD [PDF]
• SAMPLE MYEPAD [PDF]
• SAMPLE MYEPAD OAR [PDF]

For clarity on who completes which element of the MYEPAD you may find this summary helpful:

Resources

• Example of student's action plan [DOCX]
• UoB student development plan [PDF]

EPAD Rollout

From 2023 onwards, students will be transitioning to the MyProgress ePAD format. Resources are available on the Health practice learning site

When a student is in difficulty

When a student has been identified as having difficulties with their practice learning or development, there are two broad approaches that a Practice Supervisor or Practice Assessor can adopt in order to support the learner:

1. Initiate a student development plan

The University have been using student development plans for several years. The plan sits outside of the formal assessment process and can be used as a first line or ‘soft’ approach to facilitating a discussion with a student. Personal development plans are often used by Personal Academic Tutors (PATs) when a student has had a near fail in practice. Additionally, a student development plan may be put in place after a student has failed in practice to aid their preparation ahead of their next placement.

2. Initiate an action plan

Our current practice assessment documentation and the new PAN MYEPAD have action plans within them which must be completed as a tripartite meeting with the student, practice supervisor/assessor and link lecturer present. This is a more formal process which can be initiated at any time during a placement, but particularly when a student has failed an intermediate assessment.

Both development and action planning are an important strategy for generating documentary evidence for practice supervisors and practice assessors to demonstrate the support agreed with students in difficulty.

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