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22/09/2021Placement Educator - online training

BOOKING FOR THIS SESSION IS NOW CLOSED

A lunchtime training session will be held on Tuesday 28th September from 12:00 - 13:00 specifically for Placement Educators

The session will cover :-

·      The main functionality of your PARE account,

·      Main features of student documentation,

•     Plus, the opportunity to ask any questions.

To book a place please click on the Register Here

There is a maximum of 50 places so please register your interest early.

Joining instructions will be sent out on Tuesday morning to the email address with which you registered your interest.

10/08/2021Clinical Educator Signing Functionality: Temporary Change

PARE currently allows for a clinical educator to sign an entry by using a single mobile device whilst the student is logged.  This improves convenience when a single device is being used.  

02/08/2021Placement Senior Administrators - Notifications by Discipline

Recent enhancements to the list of learner disciplines on PARE includes validation to ensure that notifications for negative evaluations and PAR document issues are filtered according to the disciplines selected on the PARE account profiles of Placement Senior Administrators.

23/07/2021PARE Auto-notifications

Due to the amount of uncertainty and change to placement and clinical educator allocations brought about by the pandemic in early 2020/21 academic year, many of the auto-notifications relating to allocations and assessment progress were switched off following placement provider requests.  

19/07/2021PARE Reports Update 22nd to 23rd July

PARE is preparing to launch a set of improvements to the reporting functionality.  This will include a much greater ability to report on specific placement and user groupings linked to your personal "My Groups"  settings.

12/07/2021New Return to Practice Discipline on PARE

With the advent of Allied Health Professional Return to Practice (RTP) Programmes, PARE now hosts a multi-professional version of the RTP document. This means that RTP is no longer associated to NMC programmes, and clinical educators and university staff are reminded to ensure that have selected 'Return to Practice' in the list of disciplines within their profile in order to be able to access RTP learner documentation.

05/07/2021Senior Practice Staff - New Feature to View Staff Email Lists

All Placement Senior Administrators and Placement Educator Leads on PARE now have access to a list of the PARE account email addresses for each placement to which they have access, in the one handy pop-up screen.

01/07/2021Placement Senior Administrators - New Feature to View Temporary Access Documents

If you are a Placement Senior Administrator and have recently been granted temporary access to one or more students' PAR documents, you may now view these documents all in the one location.

25/06/2021Merseycare Take Over of North West Boroughs Healthcare

Following the take over of North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NWBH) by Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust on 1st June 2021, all former NWBH placements are now under Merseycare on PARE.

The Wigan and Leigh placements are under the Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH).

11/06/2021PARE Documents - Student Focus - online training

BOOKING FOR THIS SESSION IS NOW CLOSED

A lunchtime training session will be held on Thursday 17th June from 12:00 - 13:00 specifically for students 

The session will cover :- · 

• The main functionality of your PARE account, · 
• Main features of your documentation and timesheets, 
•  Plus, the opportunity to ask any questions.

 Joining instructions will be sent out on Monday morning.

25/05/2021HEI Placement Coordinators - New Feature: Attach Other Documents to Learner Account

HEI staff with the placement coordinator role on PARE now have access to a new feature for viewing and adding other documents to a learner account, i.e. documents in addition to the main assessment documents, that are assigned for the duration of the learner's course. This includes documents such as the Ongoing Achievement Record OAR) for Nursing and Nursing Associates.

12/05/2021Practice Staff Access to Previous Placement Skills Pages - Nursing/Midwifery Documents

To support the unprecedented changes to placements during the pandemic, and as requested by HEIs, PARE registered practice assessors can now gain assessment access to a students’ previous placement documentation.

This will enable access to skills assessments and other key pages for placements that were only partly completed or deferred altogether, which still need to be completed and signed off by staff verifying the achievements in a later placement.

For Nursing & Midwifery programmes, the practice educator must have their permission level set to Practice Assessor on their PARE account profile and will need to be assigned temporary access to the document by the student or HEI staff, if not already allocated to the student.

12/05/2021Placement Educator - online training

· The main functionality of your PARE account,

· Main features of student documentation,

• Plus, the opportunity to ask any questions.

To book a place please click on the Register Here

Joining instructions will be sent out on Monday morning.

10/05/2021Improved PARE Functionality: Recording of specific user profession..

As PARE continues to develop, increasing numbers of professional groups are using the system.  To improve usability and functionality, all users will shortly be asked to confirm their own professional background within their profiles and re-confirm the learner professional groups they are currently working with. 

In addition, users will also notice several multiprofessional programmes being incrementally added to the learner support list.  Regardless of your own profession, if you are acting as a clinical educator for a learner on one of the multiprofessional programmes, please visit your profile and ensure the required programme is selected.  Thank you. 

21/04/2021CLOSED - Registration for training Tuesday 27th April

The PARE team are delighted at the level of interest for the lunchtime training session on Tuesday 27^th April.

However  the number of registrations has now reached 50. As such the Registrations is now closed for this event. 

For those of you who have successfully registered - you will receive your joining instructions on the morning of 27th April.

For those of you who missed out this time - the registration process will open 1 week in advance of the next advertised session.  Please check the HELP/ Updating Training Dates page for the Registration button nearer the time.

21/04/2021New Feature for HEI Staff to Grant Temporary Practice Assessor/Educator Access to Student Documents

HEI staff may now grant temporary Practice Assessor/Educator access to practice staff, for access to students' assessment documents, for four weeks access durations. The use of this facility is at the discretion of both HEI staff and practice staff colleagues.

The Grant Temporary Access Feature is accessed via the Document Settings link at the top of the front page of the assessment documents. The temporary access pop-up window now includes a tick box for HEI staff to 'Give this person practice assessor/educator access rights to this document'.

07/04/2021Clarification of NMC Emergency Standards

During the pandemic the NMC have taken the decision to allow the same RN to act as Assessor and Supervisor for a single student. The PARE code has been altered to allow this.  However, this relaxation does not mean that supervisor level RNs can be assigned as an Assessor, and sign Assessor designated summative pages within a Nursing or Midwifery Document.

30/03/2021NMGH Placements to Move to Manchester University NHS FT on 1st April 2021

All North Manchester General Hospital (NMGH) placements that are currently listed under Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS FT on PARE, will be moved across to Manchester University NHS FT (MFT) on Thursday, 1st April 2021. The new MFT NMGH placements are listed on PARE , along with the new PR Codes.

29/03/2021Changes to PARE NMC Educator Register and Personal Profiles

Now that the last of the programmes based on the old 2012 NMC Standards are coming to a close, there is no longer a need to retain the 2012 annual update and triennial review data fields within a practice educators profile.  

26/03/2021Programme of Training events

The PARE team are pleased to advise you that a programme of online training has been posted on the HELP funciton of your Dashboard (https://onlinepare.net/training-dates.php).

22/03/2021Training - HEI Senior Admin - Placement Coordinator

An online training session will be held on Friday 26th March at 2pm for HEI Senior Admin - Placement Coordinators

The session will cover :-

·         The main functionality of your PARE account,

·         Management of the PARE users in your organisation,

·         Managing students’ documents and timesheets,

- for retrievals,

- additional documents,

- reactivating documents,

- plus much more.

·         Plus the opportunity to ask any questions

The training will primarily benefit new and existing university HEI Senior Admin - Placement Coordinators.

 To book a place please click on the Register Here

04/03/2021Training - Placement Education Leads (PELs)

An online training session will be held on Thursday 11th March at 2pm for Placement Education Leads (PELs).

The session will cover :-

· The main functionality of your PARE account,

· Management of the PARE users in your team,

· Managing students’ documents and timesheets,

· Getting the most from the Evaluations,

· Plus the opportunity to ask any questions about the website.

The training will primarily benefit new and existing Placement Education Leads (PELs) from:-

• NHS Trusts

• private Healthcare organisations and Nursing Homes

• and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs).

 To book a place please click on the Register Here

18/02/2021Online training - Placement Senior Admins (PEFs)

The PARE team are offering an online training session for new Placement Senior Admin/PEFs who have students attending their placements using the PARE digital documentation.

The training will primarily benefit new Placement Senior Admin/PEFs from:-

• NHS Trusts

• private Healthcare organisations and Nursing Homes

• and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs).

This session will cover:-

• The main functionality of your PARE account,
• management of the users in your organisation
• management of your organisation placements,
• Evaluations and reports ,
• an opportunity to ask any questions about the website.

26/01/2021Update - Academic Links – Granting Temporary Access

 The PARE system now allows all Academic Link account holders to give temporary access to any previous Practice Assessors/Supervisors/Educators who might need to sign off any outstanding paperwork for a student.  To enable this action, you simply need to :-

•             open the student document

•             click on the Document Settings  link in the top right corner of the Front Cover page,

•             beside each of the Practice Assessor names listed will be a Grant Temporary Access button, just select the appropriate name.

•             If you do not see the name of the Practice Assessor/Educator listed then you will be able to put their email address in the blank field at the bottom of this pop-up box and this will give temporary access to the staff concerned.

This will allow the Educator an extra 14 days of access to the student document.

22/01/2021Covid19 Support – Second C19 Opt-In Tag

In order to identify the second wave of healthcare students volunteering for non-supernumerary roles within practice, all Nursing and Midwifery student profiles that have the  C19 Opt-In indicator selected, from January 18th 2021 onwards, will have a C19²  tag displayed against their name on PARE. Students who were tagged as C19 Opt-In prior to this date will have a C19¹  tag displayed.

In order to tag a student as C19², who is currently tagged as C19¹, then untick the C19 Opt-In indicator box in the student profile, to remove the C19¹ tag, click Save, and then re-tick the box to apply the C19² tag and save again.

 All C19 Opt- In students can be searched on the system by searching first on their student organisation email stem, and then searching on C19 when the second search box loads.

20/01/2021Updated PARE Timesheet Learner Guide & New Timesheet Features

An updated version of the PARE Timesheet Learner Guide is now available from the students PARE dashboard. The Guide includes details of all the latest timesheet features including:

Download Timesheet Guide

20/01/2021Updated PARE Timesheet Learner Guide & New Timesheet Features

An updated version of the PARE Timesheet Learner Guide is now available from the students PARE dashboard (see link below). The Guide includes details of all the latest timesheet features including:

05/01/2021New Mark Sheets & Student Dashboard Features

All programmes and professions with online student assessment documentation on PARE now have access to Mark Sheets. As previously noted in an early Newsfeed item, the new style Mark Sheets amalgamate all hours from both old and new versions of PARE timesheets and support the latest Pan North/Pan Midlands Nursing PAD. In addition, the timesheet display on a student's PARE dashboard has enhanced features:

05/01/2021Course Year Allocation - New Feature for Placement Coordinators

In order to meet requests for user-specified course year allocation for online PARE documentation, the course year that is applicable for a placement allocation can now be managed, and amended by placement coordinators if required, where timesheet only records exists. Should the programme year, in which a timesheet was completed need to be changed, then this can now be achieved via the Edit Placement Allocation pop-up screen.

16/12/2020Timesheet Recording of Night Shifts: Information for Students and Assessors

Following the launch of the new style timesheets, to support multiple activity recording and other enhanced features, the recording of nightshift activities can now be recorded so that the hours are entered for the exact day for which the activity took place. 

To record a nightshift which spans two days ( for example 19:30 to 00:00 on Monday and 00:00 to 07:30 on the Tuesday), the shift will therefore be entered as a separate entry for each of the days. The hours up until midnight are entered as an activity for the first day that the night shift falls on, whilst the hours that are completed after midnight, are entered as an activity for the following day,

11/12/2020New Cohort Mark Sheet & Student Hours Dashboard display.

The nursing and midwifery programmes on PARE have now all been switched to an improved Mark Sheet format.

PARE professions such as nursing associates, physiotherapy, SLT etc., are due to have access to the improved Mark Sheets within the next few days. The new Mark Sheets are based on a similar format to the original reports, but with numerous enhancements including: 

• Clear display of total practice hours and total theory hours (if recorded) for the programme, for each year/part of the programme. 
• Full amalgamation of all hours from both old and new versions of PARE timesheets 
• Direct access to each student’s profile, timesheets and specific documentation from within the Mark Sheet view 
• Support for the latest Pan North/Pan Midlands nursing PAD, including the new document checklists, and MORA document. 
• Mark Sheet availability for programmes using PARE timesheets only.
• Faster Mark Sheet loading time, and student navigation via a new pagination toolbar.

Student Dashboard Programme Totals

The switch over to the new programme totals display, on student dashboards, is also due from the middle of next week. The new display will incorporate the hours from the new PARE timesheets, and will display both student and university hours to ensure consistency and clarity where appropriate. 

25/11/2020Covid19 Response - Temporary Adjustment to PARE Documentation Sign-Off Restrictions

In support of HEI guidance in response to the Covid19 emergency, the reduction of some higher access level restrictions for practice staff data entry and sign off for PARE documentation continues in place. Access to sections/signatures that are normally restricted to the main clinical educator, such as the allocated Practice Assessor for the nursing profession, is currently open to additional placement staff with an appropriately validated PARE account.

The PARE team are following the national Covid19-related developments closely and will communicate further PARE updates to the emergency response, including reintroduction of the standard access restrictions, as and when instructed by HEIs.

02/11/2020New Student Hours Report Available.

We have created a new report function on PARE, which allows HEIs and placement organisations to run the quarterly reports of student practice hours for HEE.

The report has a range of date, profession, and placement Organization filters and can be found via the main Reports tab on Senior HEI Administrator and PEF dashboards, then by selecting Learner Hours Completed from the left hand side tabs.                                   

The report page explains that although the report gives the placement start and finish dates, the report hours given, are only for the from and to, filter dates requested. 

We hope this will meet everyone's needs. We are aware of the importance of this data, and have extensively tested the accuracy of the filter system.  However due to the short timeframe for the report development, and the multiple cohort variables involved, please review the outputs are as you would expect and, as always, feedback is gratefully received. 

26/10/2020New Style PARE Timesheet: Roll-Out to All Professions

Following the recent launch of the new style PARE timesheets, the new timesheets have now been rolled out to all nursing, midwifery and nursing associate programmes and will be available to students as they start on new placements. The new timesheet will be rolled out to the remaining programmes over the next couple of weeks.

The timesheets continue the existing time-recording activities, but with enhanced design features including the facility to record more than one activity per day, an auto-save feature to save data as it is input, and the auto-creation of timesheet weeks on the assignment of the timesheet to a student’s placement. The days of the week display vertically, and the display of individual weeks can be expanded or minimized as required.

The new timesheets are accessed via the new 'Timesheets section' of the student's PARE dashboard, above the original Practice Record of Attendance section for those students who have the original PARE timesheet for earlier placements.

Please see the New PARE Timesheet Learner Guide (link below) for further details. Full guidance is also available in the PARE Learner Guide, available via the PARE dashboard ‘View User Guides’ link.

Download Timesheet Guide

06/10/2020TNA students - locating your New Style Timesheets on the PARE Dashboard.

With the introduction of the new style timesheets, for TNA students, the system manages them slightly differently to the old timesheets that were in use prior to 31^st August.  

Consequently, they can now be found on your PARE Dashboard in the block labeled Timesheets.  To access your current new timesheet, just click the appropriate link within this block . 

26/08/2020Launch of New Timesheets – Support for Multiple Activities Per Shift

New style timesheets have now been launched on PARE, starting with the new timesheet for the apprentice nursing associate programmes. The new timesheet has been developed with maximum flexibility in mind, in order to support new features that have been requested by the PARE user community. In particular, the new style timesheet supports the time recording for more than one activity per shift. The timesheets have been designed to be very intuitive to use and continue existing functionality, whilst supporting new features:

• Hours can now be recorded for more than one type  of activity per shift, with each activity having its own sign off. The days of the week display vertically instead of horizontally in order to allow for the addition of more than one activity type per shift.
• The available activity types for which hours can be recorded is customisable according to the requirements of each individual education provider’s programme. Activity sign off can also be restricted to just practice staff, or academic staff, as applicable for a particular activity type.
• The weeks display on the timesheet when the timesheet is first created and do not have to be added individually by the student. The weeks default to the week dates that fall between the placement start and end dates.
• The display of the weeks can be expanded or minimised for more efficient display and navigation

There are numerous timesheet settings that are customisable for the new timesheets, such as the title for signatures (Practice Supervisor/Assessor, Practice Educator, or Clinical Educator, HEI Academic Advisor, HEI Tutor etc), the sub totals that may be required for certain activity types, whether sign off is required for recorded hours to be included in totals, and so on. The PARE team will be sending communications to the leads of each programme, as the new timesheets are rolled out, in order to determine the settings required for each programme.

16/07/2020New Feature to Locate a Placement within a Region

HEI Senior Administrators now have the facility to locate a placement on PARE, by searching across all placements within a specified region, and without first having to select an organisation.

15/07/2020Preceptoring Document Now Available for Radiography Preceptees

Following the successful launch last year of the preceptoring programme on PARE for nursing preceptees, the preceptoring document is now available on PARE for radiography preceptees.

PARE Senior Administrators with access to the education accounts for their organisation may now manage radiography preceptees accounts and assignment of the preceptoring document. Please note that all PARE users who require access to the radiography preceptee documentation on PARE, including Senior Administrators, must have radiography selected as a profession that they work with on PARE, in their PARE account profile.

Further AHP preceptees are planned for inclusion in the precpetorship project following further evaluation and Health Education England direction.

01/07/2020Scrollbar Issue on IE11

The PARE team have noticed a slight issue for users who regularly use Internet Explorer 11 to access PARE. Currently, when viewing 'pop-up' pages on PARE, such as when Mentors attempt to view their own Self Declaration, there should be additional scroll bar that allows them to scroll all the way down to the page. 

19/06/2020New Filter on Mark Sheet for C19 Opt-In Students

The Mark Sheets now include a C19 Opt-In Students filter. HEI Senior Administrators and Academic Links may select this option on the Mark Sheet for a selected profession and cohort, to display the report for the C19 Opt-In tagged students only.

05/06/2020New Version of User Guides Available

The latest version of the PARE User Guides (version 1.1) is now available via the 'View User Guides' link from your PARE Dashboard. 

14/05/2020HEI Senior Administrators - Timesheet Grant Temporary Access Facility

HEI Senior Administrators now have the facility on PARE to grant temporary access to practice assessors/educators for timesheet sign off, where access has expired for the practice assessor/educator.

24/04/2020COVID 19 - Additional Support Function

PARE has been asked to help universities keep track of 2nd and 3rd Year healthcare students volunteering for non-supernumerary roles within practice.

14/04/2020Updated User Guides

There is now a link on both a users dashboard and within the Help tab to updated PARE user specific guides.  

03/04/2020COVID 19 - NMC Emergency Standards & PARE

With the advent of the Nursing and Midwifery Council Emergency Standards varying normal practice assessment requirements,  the PARE system will be temporarily altered to allow:

Exceptionally an Assessor can undertake the supervisor role for the same learner if required.

The inclusion of a drop down menu to allow students moved outside of a PARE serviced area to record the name  and contact details of a non-PARE account holder in place of  a PARE registered supervisor signature. This can then be checked / countersigned at a later date if required. 

Time sheets no longer require verification signatures  for the hours to be added to a student’ total during the emergency measures period.  (This allowance to be used only when essential).

16/03/2020PARE Service Update: COVID-19 Business Continuity

During a time of rapidly developing responses within university and placement provider organisations, please be assured that steps have been taken to ensure PARE services will be maintained.   

06/03/2020New Feature for University Education Providers

PARE has just released an additional feature for Academic Links who also act as Academic Assessors (e.g. Midwifery, Nursing, and Nurse Associate Programmes).   In the same way that the PARE system builds a portfolio record of all assessment episodes and signatures for placement clinical educators’ PARE now provides the same automatic portfolio function to University Academic Assessors.

You can view your portfolio by clicking on your profile tab (top right of screen) and accessing a configurable report on your activity.  

If you do not work as an academic assessor (or have yet to be allocated any students) you will not see this function in your profile.  If you ahve already been an active  academic assessor, you can also access anonymised records of any assessments / interactions recorded to aid as evidence for re-validation, although no name redacting programme is infallible, so careful checking is essential by the user.  Finally, Senior HEI administrators can now access a report on academic assessor activity to aid workload planning.   Go take a look!

13/02/2020Placement Educator Lead Permission Set Change

To cater for differing types of placement settings and collaborative training groups across organisations, Placement Educator Leads (Team managers) are now restricted to viewing the educator register for their area of responsibility only, and not the entire organisation.  The organisation level view is now restricted to the Senior Placement Administrator.  

28/01/2020New Development: Placement Groups

We are please to announce an exciting new development on PARE:
Placement groups will be available on PARE from 3rd February 2020.

This feature will be available to HEIs and Trusts/PIVOs.

HEIs

We have created pre-loaded placement groups for each HEI, this will contain all previous and current placements areas used by the specific HEI.  HEIs now have full control over their placement groups. HEIs can also create custom groups, alongside the existing pre-loaded placement groups. There are no restrictions on the number of groups that can be added.

Trusts/PIVOs

Placement Senior Admins (PEFs) are also able to create and manage their own placement groups. Groups can be setup per site, per department or in any other custom layout. Placement areas can be in multiple groups.
One very useful feature is the ability to link to groups. Once a Placement Senior Admin has linked to a group (or multiple groups) , they will only receive notifications relating to student activities on their linked placements area.

27/01/2020Trainee Nursing Associates – Apprentice Indicator

In order for HEI Senior Admin users on PARE to be able to identify and manage apprentice Trainee Nursing Associate learners on PARE, the Manage Users screen now displays an ‘A’ symbol against the learner’s name to indicate ‘Apprentice’ (see screenshot below). The learner’s PARE profile will also display an Apprentice flag (Yes or No) when viewed by an HEI Senior Admin user.

The apprentice flag is automatically set to Yes when ‘Apprentice’ is specified as the Sub Type in the learner placements (or leaners only) csv data upload file, and where Nursing Associate is specified as the learner’s profession, else it defaults to No.

02/01/2020PARE System Update

On Friday 3rd January between 15:00 and 16:00,  the PARE system will be undergoing routine upgrading.  Users may experience a few moments of restricted access whilst the change over occurs. 

For the same reason, we recommend that if typing  significant text into documents during that period, that you  frequently save to reduce the risk of data loss during a system re-boot. 

05/12/2019Educator Register now

There is now a more convenient way for users with managerial responsibility to review educator registration data held within PARE.  

03/12/2019Placement Profile Format Editor Added

During the transition from the PPQA to PARE system within the York and Humber region, we recently migrated a substantial dataset into the relevant placement profiles.  

12/11/2019New Placement Coordinator Indicator

Each educational establishment has a number of HEI Senior Admin accounts that have the additional permissions which allows the user to upload student placement data and allows for management of placements.  

This level of access has formerly been referred to as ‘Data Coordinator’, but this term is now replaced by ‘Placement Coordinator’ 

To help identify these account holders within the organisation, each Placement Coordinator now has a  P ( in a blue circle) by their entry on the Manager Users staff list.  

When they open their PARE profile they will see reference to the feature being active on their account :-

31/10/2019Import of Learner Records - Now Available for Learner Records only (without Placement Data)

HEI Senior Admin users, with the appropriate access permissions, now have a new facility to upload learner records only on to PARE, i.e. leaner records without the associated placement data.  

There is a new template CSV file for data upload, ‘template_students_only.csv,’ in addition to the existing data upload CSV file (for learner placement data uploads), and both can be accessed from the Import Data screen. This screen also contains a new PDF Help Guide for the importing of learner records (PDF also available via link below).

28/10/2019Improved Search Functionality

Senior HEI Administrators,  Placement Senior Administrators (Previously called PEFs), and Placement Education Leads (Previously termed Team Managers), and Academic Links now have a search box on  their dashboard which allows them to search on a name for any staff member or student within their organisation.   This makes user location faster and more convenient. 

24/10/2019PARE Roles: Name Changes from 30th October

 As PARE continues to expand across the country, it has become apparent from user feedback from outside the region, that the names associated with the differing permission levels and roles within PARE were Northwest centric and require updating.

From the 30^th October, users will see title changes as below:

 To aid clarity during the change, a transition period whereby the old title will be seen in brackets after the new title will be instigated. There will be no alteration in permission level functionality as a result of these title changes.  

03/10/2019 PARE Support for the 2018 NMC standards - New Additions and Features

To support the new Practice Supervisor, Practice Assessor and Academic Assessor roles, arising from the implementation of the 2018 NMC standards, the PARE screens now incorporate several new features and display items.

Trust/PVI staff profiles on PARE now display Practice Supervisor and Practice Assessor settings and features to enable a staff member to self-declare their role, or the PEF for the organisation to declare the new roles. To support the Academic Assessor role, a new PARE screen enables Academic Assessor Assignment (as well as Personal Tutor assignment). Bulk assignment of Academic Assessor and/or Personal Tutor is also now supported as part of the student placement file upload. The main screens affected by the new items and features include:

Trust/PVI users

User Profile screen

Update Self Declarations (new screen for PEFs)

Assign Practice Assessors (formerly Assign Mentors screen)

Placement Information (staff list)

HEI Users

Assign Assessors/Tutors (new screen)

Please see the User Guide (link below) for further details.

A lot of new functionality has been added to the system in a relatively short space of time, and we thank you for your continued patience during this transition period.

28/08/2019Multi Professions and Regionalisation

Attached is an outline of some of the new developments that have recently been implemented on the PARE website in respect of :-

23/08/2019System Update

PARE continues to grow at a pace, so we need to make some significant changes to the  way it is structured in the background.  Today a regional structure will be implemented, allowing for rationalisation of  drop down menus.  These changes will not affect  supervisors or learners, however Practice Leads and Team managers may encounter some disruption to report functions and higher administration tools until the change over is complete.

14/08/20192018 NMC Standards for Nurse Education: Imminent changes on PARE

Important news all who support nurse education.

10/07/2019Firewall Update

On 10th July 2019, UKFAST who maintain the server for PARE will be updating the security firewall.  

26/06/2019Student Quality Ambassador Awards

The Student Quality Ambassador Scheme is a Health Education England (North) funded initiative to develop the healthcare leaders of the future.  

23/04/2019Recent Site Downtime

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the PARE website has been temporarily unavailable.

07/01/2019Firewall Update

On 14th January 2019, UKFAST who maintain the server for PARE will be updating the security firewall.  

07/01/20198th January 2019 - PARE Demo website

In order to provide a working Demo site, for PARE, the live website will need to be  momentarily shut down to allow for the partitioning of the server.

15/11/2018Timesheet - weeks to be signed off

Students need to be aware that the universities have requested a modification be made to the timesheets to encourage all students to get their individual  weeks signed off in a timely manner by their mentors, within the actual period of the placement. 

• the Total hours for each week  [1] and 
• the Overall Hours [2] in the Declaration section at the bottom of the form 

you will need to ensure that each week is signed off [3].  Once  that week is signed then those hours  worked will be included into the automatic totals.  Please check the example below to see the effect that an unsigned week has on the overall totals.

This will  help to eliminate the need to chase up signatures months after a placement has ended and will help to keep your records up-to-date.

02/11/2018Scheduled Maintenance Downtime

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On Tuesday 6th November the PARE service will be undergoing essential maintainence from 08:00 to 10:00 AM and may experience intermittent downtime during this period

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Regards,
The OnlinePARE Team

17/10/2018Scheduled Maintenance Downtime

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Please be aware that the PARE website will be offline for essential maintenance, on the morning of Friday 19th October from 7.00am to 10.00am.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Regards,
The OnlinePARE Team

29/09/2018Scheduled Maintenance downtime (#2)

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Please be aware that the aforementioned upgrade is now likely to take place the following weekend due to server migration issues encountered. In light of this there was no downtime on Saturday 29th September as planned. Further details will follow.

27/09/2018Scheduled Maintenance downtime

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Please be aware that the PARE website will be migrated to a larger secure server on Saturday 29th September at 11.00am.

The team hope to minimise the disruption to our Users and aim to have normal service restored within 90 minutes.

We would like to apologise for any inconvenience.

04/09/2018Website downtime

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The PARE team wish to apologise for any inconvenience caused due lapse in service earlier this morning due to a switch in the security certificate for the site.

If you are aware that any colleagues are still having difficulty accessing PARE can you please forward them the following link which gives instructions on clearing their browser SSL cache which should help to resolve their issue:-

https://www.a2hosting.co.uk/kb/getting-started-guide/internet-and-networking/clearing-a-web-browsers-ssl-state

They will just need to follow the specific instructions for the type Browser that they are currently using.

Kind regards 

The PARE team

03/08/2018PARE APP USERS - move to new premises

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The PARE team are currently moving to new premises in Birkenhead from Monday 6^th August.

 During the transition the PARE team aim to minimise the disruption to our users but advise that  there will be a skeleton service from 3pm on Friday 3^rd August through to Tuesday 7^th August.

 Should you have a query for the PARE team during this period then your best course of action will be to send your details to info@onlinepare.net

The PARE team

24/07/2018Scheduled Maintenance downtime

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Dear PARE User

 

Please be aware that the PARE website will be temporarily unavailable for 15 minutes  on  the morning of Thursday 26^th July 2018 from 8.30am to 8.45am.

 

The PARE team apologies for any inconvenience caused by the need to upgrade the website  to a larger Server.

Kind Regards

The PARE Team

10/07/2018Training for Team Managers on PARE

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The next PARE training session, for Team Managers  is scheduled forMonday 23rd July from 2.00pm - 4.30pm and will be held in Lancaster Campus of  in the University of Cumbria.

The training is aimed at new PARE Team Managers in:-

· local NHS Trusts

· Nursing Homes

· and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs)

This will enable new Team Managers to better understand the PARE system and enable them to cascade this information among their own teams of mentor/Educators.

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

To join us and reserve one of the 20 places available then please click on the link below and leave your details.

To Register Please Click Here

05/06/2018Team Managers - PARE training

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The next PARE training session, for Team Managers  is scheduled for Thursday 28th June from 2.00pm - 4.30pm and will be held in Warrington in the University of Chester’s Tucker Building, Room 202.

The training is aimed at new PARE Team Managers in:-

· local NHS Trusts

· Nursing Homes

· and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs)

This will enable new Team Managers to better understand the PARE system and enable them to cascade this information among their own teams of mentor/Educators.

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

To join us and reserve one of the 20 places available then please click on the link below and leave your details.

To Register Please Click Here

08/05/2018Team Manager training in use of PARE website

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The next PARE training session is scheduled for Wednesday 30th May from 2.00pm - 4.30pm and will be held in Warrington in the University of Chester’s Tucker Building, Room 202.

The training is aimed at new PARE Team Managers in:-

· local NHS Trusts

· Nursing Homes

· and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs)

This will enable new Team Managers to better understand the PARE system and enable them to cascade this information among their own teams of mentor/Educators.

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

To join us and reserve one of the 20 places available then please click on the link below and leave your details.

To Register Please Click Here

09/04/2018Team Manager - PARE training

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The next PARE training session is scheduled for Tuesday 24th April   from 2.00pm - 4.30pm and will be held in Warrington in the  University of Chester’s Tucker Building, Room 202.

The training is aimed at new PARE Team Managers in:-

·         local NHS Trusts

·         Nursing Homes

·         and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs)

This will enable new Team Managers to better understand the PARE system and enable them to cascade this information among their own teams of mentor/Educators.

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

To join us and reserve one of the 20 places available then please click on the link below and leave your details.

To Register Please Click Here

06/04/2018PARE Banner

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 Please be advised that the current banner, which is currently displaying on all PEFs and Mentors Dashboards, only applies in the Cheshire /Merseyside region.  

Calling all NMC Nurse Mentors. Please ensure you have updated your last annual and triennial review dates in your profile (click on your name in top right of your dashboard to access). Failure to do so will mean an inability to see your student documentation from the 1st May 2018. If unsure contact info@onlinepare.net Thank you

If you work outside of this region then please ignore this message.  We are working to have this altered as soon as possible so that it will be seen by staff in this region only.

08/03/2018PARE Team Manager Training

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The next PARE Team Manager training is on:-

Monday 26th March 

 2.00pm - 4.30pm 

and will be held in 

University of Cumbria’s 

Lancaster campus, The Keep, room K2

The training will primarily benefit new PARE Team Managers from:-

·         local NHS Trusts

·         Nursing Homes

·         and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs)

This will enable new Team Managers to better understand the PARE system and enable them to cascade this information among their own teams of mentor/Educators.

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

To join us and reserve one of the 20 places available then please click on the link below and leave your details.

To Register Please Click Here

01/02/2018PARE Team Manager training

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The next PARE training session is scheduled for 

Wednesday 28th February   

 2.00pm - 4.30pm 

and will be held in Warrington in the  University of Chester’s Tucker Building, Room 202.

The training will primarily benefit new PARE Team Managers from:-

·         local NHS Trusts

·         Nursing Homes

·         and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs)

This will enable new Team Managers to better understand the PARE system and enable them to cascade this information among their own teams of mentor/Educators.

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

To join us and reserve one of the 20 places available then please click on the link below and leave your details.

To Register Please Click Here

19/01/2018Assignment of student assessment document to all Hub and Elective/Spoke placements - Merseyside /Cheshire

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Up to now, a student assessment record could only be assigned to a Hub placement regardless of whether the student was scheduled to make one or more shorter visits as Electives or Spokes in that time period. As a result the Elective/ Spoke placement mentors could then only access the document and timesheet whilst the student was logged into their account.

Following some changes by the web developers, it will be possible for all aspects of a student record to be directly linked to each part of the placement, for all future uploads of student placement data. The benefits of this will be:-

• The student document will be viewable by every placement that the student is scheduled to visit during that placement period. Only the appropriate pages will be available to each of the placements i.e.  If a student is attending a Elective/Spoke the mentor will only be able to add content in the Spoke pages and any other relevant pages to that Elective/Spoke placement whilst the Hub mentor will have access to all the Hub pages.
• Students attending an Elective /Spoke placement can now have mentors assigned to them, thus removing the need for all content to be added through the student's PARE login.

To ensure this works seamlessly each university Placement /Practice Offices will need to ensure that when loading their .CSV files it:

• lists all the Hubs and Electives for each student in that cohort;
• records the exact start and end date of the Hub (no need for umbrella dates);
• records the exact start and end dates for each of the Elective/Spokes;
• and that the PARE team are then advised of the correct document to be switched on for that cohort. (HEIs using InPlace will not need to use the CSV import function)

The should help to improve the experience for the Spoke/Elective mentor and will help PARE team managers to identify where mentors still need PARE accounts to be created to them.

14/12/2017PARE Team Manager training

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The next PARE training session is scheduled for Tuesday 23rd January   from 2.00pm - 4.30pm and will be held in Warrington in the  University of Chester’s Tucker Building, Room 202.

The training will primarily benefit new PARE Team Managers from:-

·         local NHS Trusts

·         Nursing Homes

·         and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs)

This will enable new Team Managers to better understand the PARE system and enable them to cascade this information among their own teams of mentor/Educators.

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

To join us and reserve one of the 20 places available then please click on the link below and leave your details.

21/11/2017Access to Demonstration documents

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To protect the intellectual property of all the separate university documents it has been decided to password protect the access to them.

For training purposes you can now find the link to these Demos from the bottom left corner of your PARE Dashboard in the box titled Document Demo Links.  

Any outside interest will need to contact the PARE Helpdesk for temporary access.  This will enable the team to monitor and track such usage.

14/11/2017December - Team Manager training

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The next PARE training session is scheduled for Thursday 7th December  from 2.00pm - 4.30pm and will be held in Warrington in the  University of Chester’s Tucker Building, Room 202.

The training will primarily benefit new PARE Team Managers from:-

·         local NHS Trusts

·         Nursing Homes

·         and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs)

This will enable new Team Managers to better understand the PARE system and enable them to cascade this information among their own teams of mentor/Educators.

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

To join us and reserve one of the 20 places available then please click on the link below and leave your details.

 

04/10/2017PARE - Team Manager training

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The next PARE training session is scheduled for Wednesday 25th October  from 2.00 -4.30pm and will be held in Warrington in the  University of Chester’s Tucker Building, Room 202.

The training will primarily benefit new PARE Team Managers from:-

·         local NHS Trusts

·         Nursing Homes

·         and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs)

This will enable new Team Managers to better understand the PARE system and enable them to cascade this information among their own teams of mentor/Educators.

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

If you would like to book one of the 20 places then please click on the link below and leave your details.

To Register Please Click Here

 

05/09/2017Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust - Inter Professional Learning Event for students

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Oral Care – The Impact on Health and Wellbeing

This session is an opportunity to meet other students and gain further insight into effective Oral Care and the Impact of poor oral care on  Health and Wellbeing… 

     

This is a chance for students to exchange views and perceptions. 

When will the event take place? 

      • 11th September 2017 13:30 till 15:30

Where will the event take place? 

     Learning & Organisational Development Dept. 

     Horton House, Southlink Business Park, Hamilton street        Oldham.OL4 1DE 

Facilitated by Amanda McLaughlin who is the Senior Training Manager Uk, RIS Products Limited 

Please email caseydunne@nhs.net to book your place 

04/09/2017PARE Traning

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The Pare team are organising a series of monthly training sessions. 

The first session is scheduled for Tuesday 26th September  from 2.00 -4.00pm and will be held in the University of Chester’s Clatterbridge site, computer suite.

The training will primarily benefit new PARE Team Managers from:-

·         local  NHS Trusts

·         Nursing Homes

·         and Enhance Training Practices (ETPs).

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

If you would like to book one of the 20 places then please click on the link below and leave your details.  

Book your place here

23/08/2017Supporting Learners in Clinical Practice Study Day

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Edge Hill University, 6th September.

Teaching, learning and assessing in practice is a vital element & process in the experience of many students. Mentorship is integral to that experience throughout graduate, postgraduate, professional & non-professional programmes. A new set of standards relating to mentors will be reviewed.

Programme

·         9.00 – Registration

·         9.30 – Keynote speaker (TBC)

·         10.00 – Overview of the Standards

·         10.30 – Refreshments

·         10.45 – Workshop (4 groups) – Overview of the new Standards

·         12.00 – Lunch

·         1.00 – Awards** (see Website for nomination link)

·         1.30 – Workshop

·         2.15 – Refreshments

·         2.30 – Workshop

·         3.15 – Overview of the Standards Feedback

**       Innovation for Practice Learning, Placement Experience of the Year, Outstanding Contribution to Practice

20/06/2017Edge Hill University

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Nursing students documents have now gone live

20/06/2017Bolton University

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The University of Bolton are planning a Mentor conference for up to 200 delegates on 7th July. There will be workshop sessions repeated 3 times during the day this will include a workshop on the on line PARE. 

30/05/2017All Learners Celebration Event

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Calling ALL Health & Social Care Learners!

Are you a current learner on a Health and Social care Programme?
Would you like to contribute to future multi professional working and inter professional learning?
Would you like to participate in a Question & Answer Learner panel?
Do you want to share your experience with other learners?

Come and Join us!

Be a part of YOUR event!

Lunch & refreshments provided

Contact Andy Morris Workbased Education Facilitator

Email; andy.morris2@nhs.net

Date: 16th June 2017

09.00 – 16.00

Venue: Liverpool John Moore’s University,
School of Health, Main Lecture Theatre,
Tithebarn Building,
81 Tithebarn Street,
L2 2ER

02/02/2017Review of PARE

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The University of Chester are hosting two meetings to review the initial phased introduction of the PARE system, from both the NHS and the Academic perspective.
All PEFs and Team managers in the North West are cordially invited to attend.

The dates are :-

• Wednesday 15th February, Riverside Campus, CRV 150, 10.00am.
• Monday 24th April, Warrington Campus, room TBC, 2.00pm

The PARE team will be in attendance to address any PARE queries or issues.

To register your interest, and request a parking space, please contact Denise Dixon at d.dixon@chester.ac.uk.
We look forward to meeting up with you at one of these meetings.

31/01/2017Merge of CWP and NHS Western Cheshire Placements

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The placements that were traditionally associated with the old NHS Western Cheshire Trust  have now finally been merged with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership.  All managers who previously had dual access to the two Trusts should now be able to access all placements from their PARE account without having to toggle between the two areas.

22/11/2016New Implementation Lead

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Paul Barber has now been appointed to the role of OnlinePARE Implementation Lead. Paul has over 40 years experience working as a nurse in the North West and as a senior lecturer at the University of Chester. Paul will be working two days per week for the OnlinePARE project. Paul's role will involve linking closely with Trusts/PVIs and universities to ensure a smooth roll-out of the online assessment process throughout the North West.
From early 2017, Paul will be holding regional training sessions for Trust staff and academics.

You can contact Paul by email: paul@onlinepare.net

07/11/2016Android App Launch

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We are pleased to announce the launch of the OnlinePARE App. The App is developed specifically for students who attend placement areas with limited access to WIFI and 3G/4G signal. The App will work without an active internet connection, while still offering the same functionality as the web version. Any document updates made by a student whilst offline will sync automatically once the student's device is connected the internet. The Android App can be found on the Google Play store. We have plans to develop an iOS version for iPhone & iPad in 2017.

We are in the process of a phased launch of the App. Currently, first year nursing students at Manchester Metropolitan University are using the app, with other universities and courses to follow in early 2017.

04/10/2016Save time importing student placement data

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We have released a new feature aimed at saving time for university placement offices. Importing CSV files can be time consuming and requires placements name to match ours. Now there is another option, by using our placement ID in place of the trust and placement it will automatically populate those fields.
You can view our placement IDs in the placement manager. For more information about this new feature please email us: info@onlinepare.net

19/07/2016Manage Placements (PEFs)

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We have added a new section under the User tab to enable PEFs to manage their placement areas more efficiently.

The Manage Placements section has these useful features

• Bulk import mentors to a placement area
• Edit or remove mentors from the placement
• View students that are assigned to a placement area
• Quick link to assign mentors screen

06/06/2016Help Guides

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We have extended the number of help guides and videos available to students, trust/PVI staff and universities. We have also made these resources easier to find.

Some of these improvements include:

• Relevant help guides will appear in the left navigation pane of any page with an associated help guide.
• Dashboard widget for general help files.
• Created a YouTube channel to host all video guides. View YouTube channel here
• Alternatively, videos can be downloaded, this is aimed at users who cannot access YouTube or need offline access to these resources.

28/01/2016Quarterly Report

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HEI staff and PEFs now have the ability to print a quarterly report for all placements in their trust/organisation based upon all students that attended a placement their during the 3 months of that quarter.

It details completion statistics, profession overviews and individual placement ratings against the previous quarter

19/10/2015Download Any Page In Your PAR

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You can now download any page in your online practice document. 

You can use this feature to keep for your own records or if you need to get a mentor to complete your page manually whilst out on a spoke or visit, it can be uploaded back to the system later.

09/10/2015Download Reports

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HEI and Trust staff can now download a statistical report to PDF. 

The PDF contains a table representation of the results as well as graphical chart which can be used in meetings to monitor and improve the student experience for the future.

10/08/2015Download Your Full PAR

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On your dashboard, you can now download your full practice document as a whole. 

This option becomes available to you when your complete your document for the entire year.

Once everything has been signed off you can then download this to keep for your own records or to hand in to your practice office as portfolio evidence.

05/08/2015Certificate Of Placement

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Students are now able to download a certificate of placement as a PDF file which highlights that they have completed an evaluation of their practice learning experience whilst on their hub placement.

They can keep this in their portfolio of work as proof of all the trust and placement areas they have attended whilst at university

15/07/2015PAR Pilot

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The Online Practice Assessment Record for Cheshire and Merseyside Student Nurses has now reached the Alpha stage of development, and will be functionality tested by a small group of students and mentors from Chester University and Edge Hill University before being formally piloted in some areas from September 2015.

The PARE team are also developing multi-professional versions of online practice assessment documentation for professions such as Physiotherapy, Midwifery and Social Work, used in a number of Universities such as UCLan, Salford, and Manchester. The aim is to have the first of these documents online by November 2015, with a rolling programme of development for other groups and universities thereafter.

If you require any further information on the above developments, please contact m.brownsell@chester.ac.uk or the PARE team.

04/06/2015Raising Concerns In Practice

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It is sometimes hard to know what to do when students feel something isn't quite right on placement so we have now put together a detailed guide for learners to help students follow a procedure set out by Heath Education North West.

This can be found on your dashboard on the left in red.

18/02/2015Evaluation

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The Evaluation element of the PARE Tool has reached an exciting stage with three North West HEIs implementing the tool. Currently, University of Chester, Edge Hill and Salford University are introducing the tool to their nursing students.

From March 2015 two more North West organisations, namely University of Cumbria and Manchester Metropolitan will each be bringing up to two further cohorts of their nursing students online.

Liverpool John Moores University will be bringing their Nursing students online in May 2015.

18/02/2015Allied Health Professions

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We are delighted that two North West HEIs have introduced the Evaluation tool to the following AHP departments:
University of Salford: Introduced a cohort of Physiotherapy students to the tool in January 2015. Edge Hill University: A cohort of Operating Department Practitioner students are intending to utilise the online evaluation tool during their May 2015 placement.

18/02/2015Training Guides

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The PARE team are pleased to offer the following link which provides all academic and Trust staff with access to online training tutorials which cover all functionality within the Evaluation aspect of the tool. We ask that all PEFs and academic leads cascade this link to the staff involved in monitoring student placements to further their awareness and understanding of how to use the online tool.

Link to PARE training resources: Training Resources

18/02/2015Further News

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The PARE team will be facilitating working groups involving North West AHPs from late February - July 2015 in order to bring their students online. Continuous updates from the PARE site will be directed towards Placement areas and the HEI Academic Links for each profession.

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