RCVS to launch an improved Nursing Progress Log system

On Monday 19 January we will be rolling out our improved Nursing Progress Log (NPL), co-designed between the RCVS and its users - whether students, clinical supervisors or quality assurers - to meet their learning, development, tutoring and assessment needs.

The NPL is the RCVS development and assessment tool for student veterinary nurses (SVNs) and the improved iteration has a suite of new features based on feedback and requests from its end users and went through extensive user testing.

Some of the key new features available to all users include:

• Students can now upload voice notes for quick updates and reflections on the progress log and professional behaviour sections of the NPL. Tutors and clinical supervisors can also do the same in the ‘tutorial’ section.
• Skills can now be multi-logged across different areas of the NPL, saving students, clinical supervisors and tutors time from having to repeat similar entries across the platform.
• The system will now autosave entries and edits in the background meaning if the system times out then your work will still be there.
• The platform has been made more mobile-friendly and is compatible with a wide range of mobile phones and operating systems.
• We’ve added a new Tutorials tab which includes guidance and prompts to help facilitate effective and structured discussions with students covering areas such as workload, targets, logging experiences and reflections.
• The full details of the changes that have been made to the NPL can be found in the platform’s new user guidelines (which can be emailed to you by the VN Team on request), which also includes handy guides for the main areas of the platform and different users.

Please note: due to upcoming changes to other RCVS systems, NPL users will need to change their login details later this year, but will be contacted in good time with further details.

For any questions about using the improved NPL, or to request a guide, please contact [email protected]