Engaging With Patients – Innovations in 
  Practice
  BSc [Hons] Nursing 
  Programme
  Establishing the Links
       MAKING IT HAPPEN
            Patients              Plymouth                  PPGs
          Association             University
         Established PPG          Committed to            Established 
       involvement / contact     developing PPG        relationship with the 
                               student volunteering    Patients Association
       Communicating with 
       Plymouth University     Communicating with       Expressions of 
       Communicating with         the Patients              interest
              PPGs                 Association
                                                     Wanting it to happen
      Gathering expressions    Communicating with 
                                     PPGs                   Positive 
       of interest from PPGs                            communication 
         Communicating          Gathering student 
                              expressions of interest  Vision /excitement 
       potential benefits to 
             PPGs              Communicating the       Organising student 
       Providing information   benefits to students         activity 
          about the Pilot     Coordinating student              
                               PPG allocation and 
                                clinical placement 
                                  requirements
                                     Nursing 
                                   Programme 
                                   Challenges:
                                   Operationalising 
                                   Communicating
              Challenges:                               Challenges:
                 PPGs                                 Students Nurses
              Student Nurses     Student                 Programme / 
              as volunteers                           Placements / Exams/ 
                                  Nurse /                Assessments
                                    PPG 
                                    Link
                      Evaluating the             Sustainin
                      Experiences:                g  PPG 
                      PPG & Student                Links
                         Nurses