Nursing and Midwifery Revalidation
To be able to continue practicing as a registered nurse or midwife you will need to revalidate every 3 years with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
The requirements for revalidation over a 3 year period are:
- A minimum of 450 practice hours
- 35 hours of continuous practice development (CPD) relevant to your scope of practice. At least 20 of these hours need to include participatory learning.
- You must obtain at least 5 pieces of practice related feedback
- You must have 5 written reflective accounts which must refer to your CPD, practice related feedback or an event or experience in your own professional practice and relate this to the NMC Code.
- You will need to have a discussion relating to your reflective accounts with another NMC registrant who will then sign the approved form
- You must provide a health and character declaration
- You must declare that you have appropriate professional indemnity arrangements
- Demonstrate to a confirmer that you have met the revalidation requirements
Further Information
Further information on revalidation can be found on the NMC revalidation microsite
http://revalidation.nmc.org.uk
The NMC code for nurses and midwives can be found at the following link
www.nmc.org.uk/standards/code/
The Royal College of Nurses also provide additional guidance on revalidation here
www.rcn.org.uk/professional-development/revalidation
