COMPUTER BASED TEST (CBT) (AT PEARSON VUE TEST CENTRES AROUND THE WORLD)

1. Multiple choices
2. 120 questions
3. 4 hours to complete
4. 60% score overall to pass
5. 90% of critical questions must be answered correctly (related to patient safety)
6. Maximum 2 re-sits

APPLICATION ASSESSMENT

After you’ve passed the CBT, you’ll be asked to provide your supporting documents for your application. You’ll need to upload copies of the following documents to us are:

1. Your current valid passport
2. Your birth certificate
3. Your formal qualification certificates for each qualification you’re submitting as part of your application.
4. Your registration certificates from each country where you’ve practised and/or been registered. If the country operates state level registration, then you’ll need to have registered in each state where you’ve practised.
5. A full, national police clearance certificate for every overseas country you’ve lived in or visited for more than three months, since the age of 18. You’ll need to submit these within three months of the date of issue.
6. If you’ve lived in the UK for more than three months, you’ll need to provide us with a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) certificate. You’ll need to submit this within three months of the date of issue. You’ll also need to download and print the following forms from your online portal and have them completed:
7. Registration verification from each country where you’ve practised or where you’ve been previously registered. Again, if the country operates state level registration, you’ll need to have been registered and provide verification forms from each state you’ve practised in. These forms need to be completed by the relevant authority and we need to receive them within three months of the date it was signed.
8. A completed form to accompany transcript of training (FATT) form and a full transcript of your training for all relevant nursing or midwifery qualifications you’re submitting as part of your application. These forms need to be completed by your education provider.
9. A good health declaration from your general practitioner or the occupational health department at your place of work. They’ll be asked to confirm that they’ve seen you within the last six months of the date they’re completing the form and we must receive the form within three months of the date it’s been completed. The individual completing your good health declaration must not be a member of your family or your direct employer. All of the relevant forms required are available to download from your online portal once you reach the assessment stage, but not before. You’ll need to send the relevant forms to the correct authorities to be completed and they must be posted back to us. We do need the original forms that the referee or relevant authority has completed; please don’t send photocopies or scans, as these won’t be accepted. All forms must be completed in full and be signed, stamped and dated. Once we’ve received all the necessary documents, your application will be assessed by a member of the International Registrations Team. We aim to assess applications within 60 calendar days of receiving all your supporting evidence. 13 If we need to ask you for more information following our assessment, we’ll assign you a case officer, who will be your point of contact going forward. Once we confirmed you’ve met our registration requirements, your application will be progressed to the next stage, which is the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE).

TEST OF COMPETENCE PART TWO: THE OBJECTIVE STRUCTURED CLINICAL EXAMINATION (OSCE)

The OSCE will assess your clinical knowledge and may only be completed within the UK. The test are administered by one in all our approved university test centres who will administer their own test fee in agreement with us. You’ll must contact the university on to book and purchase your test. The OSCE simulates a clinical environment and patient scenarios which all registered nurses and midwives are likely to encounter once they assess, plan, implement and evaluate care.

The OSCE contains nursing or midwifery scenarios together with separate skill stations. Each separate clinical examination is understood a ‘station’ and you’ll circulate through all the stations within a collection timeframe. Each of the six stations has standardised marking criteria against which most are assessed. everyone seems to be assessed by a panel of examiners and can be filmed for quality assurance purposes. Both the CBT and OSCE are supported current UK pre-registration standards. If you started your application before 6 April 2017, you’ll have two attempts at the OSCE as a part of one application. do you have to be unsuccessful following your second attempt, your application will close. You’ll have to start a brand new application, but you won’t be able to sit the OSCE again for a minimum of six months.

If you started your application on or after 6 April 2017, you’ll have three attempts at the OSCE, as a part of one application. do you have to be unsuccessful in your first OSCE, then you want to wait a minimum of 10 working days before your next attempt. If you’re unsuccessful in your second OSCE attempt, you want to wait a minimum of three months from the date of your second attempt before you’ll take your next attempt. If you’re unsuccessful on your third attempt, your application will close. You’ll have to submit a brand new application but won’t be able to sit the OSCE again for a minimum of six months.

OBJECTIVE STRUCTURED CLINICAL EXAMINATION(OSCE)

1. 6 OSCE stations
2. 20 minutes per station with 5 minutes familiarisation
3. 4 stations are scenario based, related to holistic patient-centred nursing and midwifery care
4. 2 stations are focused on practical clinical skills
5. Unique 20 criterion based assessment sheet for each station
6. Maximum 2 re-sits

ID CHECK

A face-to-face ID check will happen at the OSCE location on the identical day as your OSCE exam. You’ll must bring all of the initial documents that you just uploaded as a part of your application. This includes your passport, registration certificates, police clearances and UK DBS. you’ll be able to find a checklist on the rear of your OSCE letter, which is downloadable from your portal.

14 If for any reason you don’t have all of your original documents on the day, you may still be able to sit your OSCE exam. However, you’ll be asked to book in a briefing, either at our office in London or at one amongst the OSCE locations, to complete your ID check. If this can be the case, you won’t be able to attain the last stage of the registration process until you’ve attended your follow up ID check.

REGISTRATION

Once we’ve received notification that you’ve successfully completed your OSCE and therefore the ID check, you’ll be asked to finish your final declaration and make your registration payment via your portal. Once you’ve completed both, you will get your registration number (PIN).

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS.

You need to have successfully completed at least 10 years of school education before starting your post-secondary education nursing or midwifery training programme, which lead to registration. This must be at least a three year full time programme.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS

When you apply to register with the NMC they need whether to know you can communicate effectively in English. Communication is defined as speaking, reading, listening and writing. You must demonstrate competence in these four skills. Detailed guidance is given below.