Nurses please help with revalidation.

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How on earth do I revalidate if I have no current Nursing job? I have friends who are nurses. I am working in a job which is not a Nursing role but have only left Nursing in the last 6months. I have enough hours over the past 3 years and enough training hours. It's the feedback bit I'm struggling with and finding someone to sign it off. How can I do this before October. I work full time , it would be incredibly hard to fit in bank hours too.

So I revalidated 2 years ago so it's not so fresh in my mind, but for the feedback you can use loads of different things. E.g. your annual appraisal documents, clincial supervision notes (if your organisation does this), notes from any 1-2-1 meetings you've had, thank you notes from patients/relatives, comments from students you've supervised, minutes from team meetings, root cause analysis from any incidents which occurred in your department. It doesnt have to be all face to face feedback meetings, you can be a lot more creative than that and "team" feedback is valid as much as individual (so long as you were actually part of that team, obviously!) Hopefully you've had annual appraisals which should have some feedback or coments on your performace on them?

Re: finding someone to sign you off, I think your best bet would be to approach your line manager/team leader in your last nursing post. Or if they're no longer around, someone else senior - your matron or similar. You haven't got long so don't delay in asking around. I'm not certain but I think non nurses can sign you off if they're registered health professionals too (may have made that up) so depending on where you work now you could explore that option too, although if they were unfamiliar with the system I can see why they might be reluctant.

Good luck!

Thanks for the reply. I don't have any appraisal paperwork, one got missed and was never re-scheduled and then I was a bank Nurse for a while and didn't have one . I think it's going to be hard. I'm not in a Nursing role anymore, we get thank you cards for the service we offer but I'm not working as a Nurse.

Can you speak to the Nursing Bank you were under? You will still have had a 'line manager', even if in reality you never met them. They will have some RMNs on the bank who only hold those contracts so will have come across this before

Speak to the RCN or NMC and ask their advice.

your friends who are nurses can sign you off so long as they have seen your forms/paperwork. It doesn't have to be your line manager.

With regards to feedback, it can be a thankyou card, comment, testimony. There are example templates on the nmc website that are not that detailed so you don't have to write loads or have long written testimonies to use as feedback.

Are you going back into nursing?

Is the service you provide health related? I'm an audit nurse. I don't directly work with patients right now, but I can still use my work for revalidation.

You can contact ex-colleagues specifically and ask for feedback, too. I recently complimented a colleague and she said "I'm revalidating soon, could you put that in an email?" No problem.

Thanks Lougle - I am not working as a Nurse but it is health related in that we work closely with cancer patients. We do receive thank you cards/ feedback for the help we give them. Would those be acceptable. I think I just want to keep my options open. My non nursing job isn't great at times and if I suddenly decide to quit I would probably need to fall back on Nursing as my new career is quite niche and it might be hard to find a new job in that area. I last did a bank shift 6 months ago but before that was working and have done enough hours, CPD hours etc .