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Janaelle, So sorry to hear that all your efforts have gone unrewarded and unheeded. I was going to tell you three weeks ago that this would be the case. I didn’t want to be a negative downer for you. I went through every aspect of the revalidation requirements WHILE STILL ON THE REGISTRY, and I was not permitted to revalidate due to living in the US. The NMC rejected my manager as a referee and would not provide anyone to serve as my Registered Referee in the UK. I felt it was a deliberate method of eliminating foreign-registration nurses from their registry. I was truly heartbroken. I had worked so hard to get on the registry. :( Jennifer McGlynn

You are so awesomely helpful...thank you! My five reflective accounts are completed (having discussed them at length with my Department Head...shhhh, don't tell her I wasted so much of her time!), so I will try to find a willing UK nurse to email them to as saved word documents so we can discuss them. I have emailed a good friend of my mother's, Violet Brown, to see if she is still on the register. If not, she may have some suggestions for me. It would be nice to find someone in pediatrics or a clinic setting, as I work with children ages 4 to 21.

In looking over my revalidation documents, I realize you are right...I have it backwards. I already have a confirmer (my Department Head), but need an NMC registered practitioner (working in the UK, under The Code) with which to have a reflective discussion. That changes things a bit. Why isn't the NMC more facilitative in this process? Is it possible that this revalidation process is a "weeding out" agenda? It's starting to feel that way to me. Hmm. Well, I shall persevere! Thank you for clarifying the difference between the Reflective Discussion and the Confirmation. I've been using the wrong language throughout.

I had an extensive professional discussion with my Department Head, Debra Collins, a brilliant woman of formidable experience and intellect, who is crafting healthcare policy for the state of Pennsylvania. We sat for several hours, pouring over my revalidation packet and The Code, and how The Code relates to my practice. I am simply in need of skyping with someone who has an NMC Pin number and will serve as my confirmer so I can get through the online revalidation process. I was flabbergasted that the extensive effort I went to to revalidate was not deemed sufficient until I tracked down an unknown NMC registrant and put his/her name and Pin number into my online form.

Dear BabyNP, Is it possible we can serve as each other's confirmer? Depending where you are in the US, the time zone for skyping might even be the same! :) I have an NMC Pin number, just as you have...isn't that the requirement? As long as we discuss The Code, and how the premise of The Code affects our practice, I do not believe we are required to actually work in the UK. What are your thoughts? Jen McGlynn RN

Third-party checks could block staff from NMC register Almost one in six nurses have said they would be unable to prove their fitness to practise under a proposed model of regulation, according to a report seen by Nursing Standard. Under revalidation, a new approach to ensuring nurses keep up to date drawn up by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), registrants would be expected to find a third party to provide confirmation of their fitness to remain on the register every three years. Findings from a consultation carried out by the regulator, yet to be published, show that of 1,406 nurses, around 15 per cent of nurses questioned would not be able to find a fellow registrant, or a manager and another registrant, to say they are fit to remain on the register. If a nurse is line-managed by a registrant, confirmation would be given solely by the manager. However, if the person overseeing the nurse's practice is not a registrant, confirmation will be sought both from the person overseeing their practice and from someone who is on the register and is familiar with their practice. Problem areas Three groups may struggle to use either model – nurses and midwives working overseas; nurses and midwives practising independently, including the self-employed; and some nurses who work solely or mainly for a nursing agency. People working overseas can be overseen by a senior nurse who is not registered with the NMC and a potential solution suggested in the report would be to allow nurses registered with equivalent bodies in other countries to be confirmers. A solution for those in independent practice, for example cosmetic nurses, could be to set up industry bodies that could take on the role of confirmer, and agencies could play a similar role for nurses working for them, the report says. Confirmation will ideally take place during an appraisal under the revalidation plans. But the consultation showed that, of those nurses who said they could use the one-confirmer model and had an appraisal in the past year (903), 18 per cent (160) said the person who would be their confirmer does not conduct their appraisal. The NMC's council will be asked to approve a revalidation model, to be piloted next year, at a meeting this week.

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Hi Marion, I will be your confirmer, if you will be mine...is that permissible? I just posted a plea right now, and then noticed your post. I work in the US in Pennsylvania. Jennifer McGlynn RN, CSN

Well, it appears I am in the same predicament as many others...an NMC-licensed nurse practicing in the U.S. (for 21 years), and in need of a confirmer who is also registered with the NMC. I must complete my revalidation by July 1st, which is in 19 days. I was told in an email (yes, two-weeks seems to be the quickest response time) that I may Skype with someone. What could that person possibly know about my practice? What in the world would I know about their practice, and would I want their name on my confirmer form? Ah, well...any takers? I will wake up any hour of the night to make it convenient for you! I am a Second Level Educational Specialist serving 12 schools in a Pennsylvania School District (Northampton Area School District) as a School Nurse. Please let me know if you are willing to have a reflective discussion with me regarding how The Code shapes and influences my practice. Jennifer McGlynn RN, CSN 1 + (484) 357-6659