title: A 'roll-on, roll-off' preceptorship pathway for new registrants.
abstract: The need to support high numbers of new registrants simultaneously at the Royal United Hospital, Bath, led to the development of a preceptorship pathway. The 'roll-on, roll-off' structure allows newly registered nurses and allied health professionals to start preceptorship as soon as they take up their roles. Essential competencies are negotiated with managers and achieved through subject-focused teaching sessions, workplace preceptorship, reflection, peer support and the use of distance-learning materials that link to the NHS knowledge and skills framework and appraisal requirements. Evaluation suggests that the pathway provides a high standard of learning and support, but development will continue, particularly in relation to monitoring and recording new practitioners' involvement in clinical incidents and their completion rates.
authors.affiliation: Education Centre, Royal United Hospital, Bath. I.chapman1@nhs.net
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chapman
mesh_terms: D003162:Competency-Based Education / Q000379:methods*; D020375:Education, Distance; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D011231:Preceptorship / Q000379:methods*; D015397:Program Evaluation