Welcome to the homepage of the Thames Valley & Wessex Neonatal Nursing Qualified in Specialty (QIS) Pilot Programme 


​This Neonatal QIS Programme curriculum has been developed by Susi Hill and Kim Edwards with the collaboration of the Thames Valley and Wessex Neonatal Practice Educators and Specialist Nurses. The RCN’s ‘Career, education and competency framework’, the ‘Matching knowledge and skills for QIS Neonatal nurses: A core syllabus for clinical competency’ documents, and mapping of previous skills competence QIS Programmes have underpinned the framework and development of this programme.
 
This Neonatal QIS Programme will be piloted for one year commencing November 4th, 2019. There will be 38 QIS learner’s representative of most of the Neonatal Units within TV and Wessex Network. This is an extremely exciting time for the QIS learners, Practice Educators and the Network. We are an exemplar of excellent practice, as other Networks are looking to emulate and map the Programme.

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​"This session gave me more confidence to attend to crash calls. I had my first crash call days after this and I was alone, without a senior nurse"

"Clear and precise information. Very relevant to practice"

"Easy to understand, good knowledge and good relevance to practice"

"Although there are some differences between the units the process is the same, relevant to practice and east to understand and follow the admission process"

"Really enjoyed the sims and learnt a great deal"

"Brill loved it"

"Best bit of the day - practical and visual with lots of learning"

​"Really liked the workshops as it is hands on and was able to ask more questions during each sessions. They were all great and the mentors leading the group were really knowledgeable
promoted participation, the lines workshop was very good for practice as it can be a very tricky, it was quite useful"

"Really enjoying the journal clubs as it allows practice for reviewing articles and to have multiple points of view is always helpful"

"It was good to have case studies and to discuss things as a group - very relevant to practice"

"Case studies very good to help in real life simulations - puts everything together"

"The workshops were all very good to put the mornings' theory into practice"