P190 The usefulness of an education pathway in supporting cardiac nurses continuing professional development

Patients’ perspectives on the educational preparation of cardiac nurses

“…Arguably, this has resulted in education programmes that remain dominated by a professional lens and so fail to embrace the contribution of important and valuable stakeholder perspectives. A recent British Heart Foundation (BHF) funded project 10 sought to evaluate their nurse education pathway from multiple perspectives, including that of patients. Patients’ views were sought, firstly, to ascertain whether they were aware of the use of an education pathway to direct the development of cardiac nurses and, secondly, to explore their perceptions of what was important in the education and development of cardiac nurses.…”

“…This paper reports on part of the overall evaluation. 10 The data reported here were elicited from a focus group held with members of a patient forum based in central England.…”