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Preparing for your preceptorship midwife interview: A student's guide
Abstract
This is a busy and exciting time in the academic year, as third-year students come to the end of their programme of study and start to apply for preceptorship posts. While there remains a shortage of midwives (
The Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry (Francis, 2013) highlighted how service users were receiving substandard care where staff did not exhibit core values such as care and compassion. In response to the identification of this basic failing, Health Education England (HEE, 2016) published its national values based recruitment (VBR) framework to encourage higher education institutions (HEIs) to introduce the values of VBR into their recruitment process. VBR is defined by HEE (2016) as:
‘an approach which attracts and recruits students, trainees and employees on the basis that their individual values and behaviours align with the values of the NHS Constitution, alongside their skills and aptitude.’
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) states that, at the point of registration, student midwives should be able to ‘practise safely and effectively without the need for direct supervision’ (NMC, 2009: 23). The required competencies are divided into four domains:
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