Well done for passing your two-year programme and getting your PIN to become a Band 4 nursing associate (NA).
As an NA you will need to attend certain training to help solidify your role. Until your PIN arrives you will continue as a trainee nursing associate (TNA) in your ward area. Once your PIN is allocated you can collect your uniform and begin your time as an NA.
Over the first few weeks you will be consolidating your learning and having time to settle in to the role.
Your TNA clinical educator will come to visit you in your supernumery period to assess and check in on your progress. After that period your ward manager and divisional educators will take over in supporting you in practice. Depending on your area you will have the opportunity to further develop your role with ward-specific competencies that apply only to your area, giving you skills tailored to the ward.
First steps include:
- completing clinical induction, which your ward manager or divisional educator will book you in for
- undertaking relevant ward-specific competencies
- completing competencies in PICS (if at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham)
- completing competencies in electronic portal (if at Good Hope, Heartlands or Solihull hospitals)
- medication management training
- completing preceptorship
We are in the beginning stages of developing a Band 5 top–up programme which for which all Band 4 qualified TNAs will be eligible.
Last reviewed: 30 June 2021