UWS Care Home Placement Pilot Meeting – 11 February

UWS Care Home Placement Pilot Meeting – 11 February

The University of the West of Scotland (UWS) are proposing a care home placement pilot around their campus areas (Ayr, Lanarkshire, Paisley and Dumfries). This includes care home providers that don’t currently support students but are keen to. This pilot will help support independent care home providers to become ready to support students. 

 Tom McEwan (Practice Learning & Partnership Lead – School of Health & Life Sciences, UWS) kindly hosted a webinar for us which discussed this pilot project, and provided an update about the new NMC standards for student nurses which will go live from September 2020, as well as their new Pre-Reg Nursing Programme. A recording of this webinar and Tom’s presentation slides can be found here.

For those who are interested, there will VC meetings on Tuesday 11th February across the 4 different university campus. There will be a morning session at 10:00am – 12:00pm and an afternoon session at 1:00 pm – 3:00pm in the following rooms.

Ayr Campus: Room CR1 

Address: University Avenue, Ayr KA8 0SX

Dumfries Campus: Room W12 

Address: Dudgeon House, Bankend Rd, Dumfries DG1 4ZN

Lanarkshire Campus: Room 2.1.10 

Address: Stephenson Place, Hamilton International Technology Park, South Lanarkshire, G72 0LH

Paisley Campus: Room P121 

Address: High St, Paisley PA1 2BE

Please contact [email protected]  or [email protected] to register your attendance by Thursday 6 February.

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