Assuring quality in anatomy and physiology teaching for pre-registration nursing students: the SAFE-A&P database

The University of Sheffield's Division of Nursing and Midwifery offers a diverse portfolio of pre-registration adult nursing programmes, all of which are grounded in the UK's Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Standards Framework and share core learning outcomes and content. One area of shared content across all our programmes is Biosciences, based on UK NMC requirements and the UK's Quality Assurance Framework for Biosciences Education in Nursing (BiNE). Recently, more detailed recommended Anatomy and Physiology (A&P) learning outcomes have been published to enhance A&P teaching in the UK, and were as a result of collaborations between UK Higher Education institutions and the UK's BiNE special interest group. Our aim was to proactively identify and act on these areas for improvement to ensure the ongoing quality of our A&P education. We conducted a rapid review and gap analysis of our A&P provision across our different programmes. This involved centralising our A&P resources from multiple programmes and mapping our content to the more recent detailed learning outcomes. Our results will showcase our approach and outcomes in undertaking this review, which is intended to continue to ensure high quality and successful preparation of our nursing students for excellent practice in the workplace.