Now it’s your turn When you are ready, you will receive an email from The Myers Briggs company asking you to complete your assessment. It will look like something like this: Click the link inside the email to complete the questionnaire. When you are finished, you will be given a four letter code as explained […]

What is the Myers Briggs Type Indicator? The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an introspective self-report questionnaire indicating differing psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. The test attempts to assign four categories: introversion or extraversion, sensing or intuition, thinking or feeling, judging or perceiving. One letter from each category is

Welcome Welcome to the first module in Internationally Recruited Nurses Online. In this module you will be taking the Myers Briggs Personality assessment. The video below will explain the test and on the next page, Lucy Brown, Deputy Director of the Florence Nightingale Foundation will explain how the results of your assessment can help you

Welcome to Module 2 in the Internationally Educated Nurses and Midwives Programme. This module consists of 6 sections and each section should take about an hour to complete. What is this module all about? An introduction to the principles of quality improvement and how they can support day-to-day practice for all staff, to help ensure

To find out why and how quality improvement might be used in your workplace, watch the clip below where Dr Mike Evans talks about what quality improvement means to him… Introducing Sarah What do we mean by Quality? The WHO defines quality as care that is… The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator

Sarah spots a problem Stop before you start Once you have identified a problem, it can be tempting to leap into action. But in quality improvement, we need to stop before we start and make sure we have really understood the problem we want to tackle… Using Observation You will see how Sarah used this

If like Sarah we have found something that we really want to improve, it can still be difficult to know how to get started. A really helpful approach is to use the Model for Improvement, a tool to help us systematically find and tackle problems so that we make the changes that will lead to

Change Ideas When you are starting an improvement project remember that it is important not to jump to solutions too quickly. This is why we take time to really understand what the problem is, what our aim might be and how we will know things have improved, rather than just changed. Then we can start

By this stage, you have a clear idea of what you want to achieve and the beginnings of a plan for how to achieve it. You will have identified some ideas for changes to make and prioritised where to start with your first PDSA cycle. So, what now? You may recall that at the start

Additional resources If you are interested in learning more about QI or undertaking further improvement work yourself, the following resources may be a useful place to start: Institute for Healthcare Improvement: QI ToolsA list of audio and video resources The Health Foundation: Quality improvement made simpleWhat everyone should know about health care quality improvement! NHS