Decision-Making: understanding undergraduate fitness to practise panels using a simulated case study approach
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description: Fitness to Practise (FtP) is an emerging area of interest within the health and social care field due to the increasing high profile cases relating to professionalism and conduct of practitioners. Research has ‘yet to catch up’ with the emerging interest and the current body of evidence predominately consists of literature reviews and descriptive or discursive papers which examine the process and functionality of FtP panels. Currently no research has attempted to examine the decisions made or indeed how these decisions were arrived at within the following health and social care professions, Nursing, Paramedic Practice and Social work. Professional regulation for each of these professional groups is established through regulatory bodies. The regulation and determination of FtP of students on leading to registration is the role of the Higher Education Institution (HEI) and is less uniform in its approach. This may lead to disparity and the potential risk of inconsistency, unfair and unjust decisions for students. Aim: In order to gain a greater understanding FtP and professional conduct, this research study aimed to examine the decision-making process involved in ‘FtP’ panels for undergraduate health and social care students, comparing the decision-making process of students, lay person and practitioners (both experienced and inexperienced). This study explored the factors that influence the decision-making processes including experience and skills. Methods: Three simulated ‘FtP’ case studies were created and filmed to examine the decision-making process that takes place in panels for undergraduate nursing/paramedic/social work students. These were informed by real life cases and expertise of professionals within each of the professional groups. Actors were recruited for each of the case studies and the simulations were filmed. Debriefing of the simulation was conducted with the actors and the data collected was analysed using thematic analysis. The case studies were …
abstract: Fitness to Practise (FtP) is an emerging area of interest within the health and social care field due to the increasing high profile cases relating to professionalism and conduct of practitioners. Research has ‘yet to catch up’ with the emerging interest and the current body of evidence predominately consists of literature reviews and descriptive or discursive papers which examine the process and functionality of FtP panels. Currently no research has attempted to examine the decisions made or indeed how these decisions were arrived at within the following health and social care professions, Nursing, Paramedic Practice and Social work. Professional regulation for each of these professional groups is established through regulatory bodies. The regulation and determination of FtP of students on leading to registration is the role of the Higher Education Institution (HEI) and is less uniform in its approach. This may lead to disparity and the potential risk of inconsistency, unfair and unjust decisions for students. Aim: In order to gain a greater understanding FtP and professional conduct, this research study aimed to examine the decision-making process involved in ‘FtP’ panels for undergraduate health and social care students, comparing the decision-making process of students, lay person and practitioners (both experienced and inexperienced). This study explored the factors that influence the decision-making processes including experience and skills. Methods: Three simulated ‘FtP’ case studies were created and filmed to examine the decision-making process that takes place in panels for undergraduate nursing/paramedic/social work students. These were informed by real life cases and expertise of professionals within each of the professional groups. Actors were recruited for each of the case studies and the simulations were filmed. Debriefing of the simulation was conducted with the actors and the data collected was analysed using thematic analysis. The case studies were …
author: Hayes, J
keywords: RA Public aspects of medicine, RT Nursing
date published: 2016-11
date modified: 2026-07-24T06:30:08Z
provider: Liverpool Jon Moores University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Liverpool John Moores University

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value: 10.24377/LJMU.t.00005332