Abstract
In August 1989 the UKCC, the statutory body for nurses, midwives and health visitors charged with maintaining and improving standards of education and practice, launched a major project on post-registration education and practice (PREP) (UKCC, 1990). The project report stated that changes in the patterns of health and disease; together with changing institutional arrangements, which include new styles of clinical management, etc, require a concomitant change in the nature of post-registration education and practice. Recognition was given to the effect on education provision of the new ethos of purchaser and providers as the use of contracts is extended to the provision of education.
The focus of this first case study is the joint development of a credit scheme for nursing and midwifery awards be Ween the University of Greenwich and the Princess Alexandra and Newham College of Nursing and Midwifery. The chapter exposes the shortcomings of the orthodox educational paradigm in accommodating a flexible, work-focused approach to learning and describes the development of an innovative credit accumulation and transfer (CAT) scheme that includes the first ENB Higher Award pathway to become operational in England.
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Thomson, V., Hall, D. (1994). Case study: a credit scheme for nurses and midwives. In: Humphreys, J., Quinn, F.M. (eds) Health Care Education. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3232-7_3
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