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You must use this form to record five written reflective accounts on your CPD and/or practice-related feedback and/or an event or experience in your practice and how this relates to the Code. Please fill in a page for each of your reflective accounts, making sure you do not include any information that might identify a specific patient, service user or colleague. Please refer to our guidance on preserving anonymity in Guidance sheet 1 in How to revalidate with the NMC. Reflective account: Secondary Care – NHS hospital nurse What was the nature of the CPD activity and/or practice-related feedback and/or event or experience in your practice? CPD participatory activity – Attending a Manual Handler Transfer Specialist course. What did you learn from the CPD activity and/or feedback and/or event or experience in your practice? As an experienced community nurse I have had to adapt to various environments to deliver care safely and effectively. Working within the community team we are involved in providing care for patients with complex health care needs at home, most presenting with limited ability to mobilise and transfer independently. I was approached by the lead ANP to participate in the manual handling transfer specialist training course to help develop the team’s knowledge and skills in patient handling safely and effectively. The role of transfer specialist will also promote the team’s compliance with the Trusts mandatory training programme. The startling statistics highlighting that 24% of NHS staff are injured through poor manual handling practice and contributes to 40% of sickness and absence emphasises the need for raising awareness of the consequences of poor practice. The cost to the NHS for compensation claims is approximately 150million a year, money that should go directly to patient care. The role of transfer specialist will focus on organisational and individual training needs to continue to move safer handling practice forward across the organisation in line with current best practice. Each trainer will be expected to attend a minimum of one update training session every year facilitated by a board manual handling advisor. Standards for training staff entail completing a structured manual handling passport and the assessment of staff members involves carrying out practical modules relevant to their workplace. For new staff an induction will be carried out and a checklist of training needs must be met prior to commencement of work. Self-assessments will be carried out every 2 years and training if required provided by the transfer specialist. 15 of 22

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