As part of the Nursing and Midwifery application process, you may be sent an email invitation to complete an online Confident Caring Assessment.
The Confident Caring Assessment is designed to assess the qualities needed to work as a nurse or midwife. Read down the page to get prepared and complete your assessment.
Please remember that if you have been a resident in Scotland for a minimum of 3 years and have permission to stay, your fees could be paid by the Scottish government and you could also benefit from a non means-tested, non-repayable annual bursary of £10,000 per year for the duration of your nursing or midwifery course. Read our Overview of Nursing and Midwifery Bursaries.
If you live in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, there are various other bursaries available.
Preparing for the Confident Caring Assessment
Read the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2018) The Code
One of the best tips for your Confident Caring Assessment is to make sure you understand what the test is looking for. Read The Code and watch the short videos to understand the principles and themes in the assessment. Those principles and themes are detailed below:
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prioritising people
- practising effectively
- preserving safety
- promoting professionalism and trust
Remember The Main Themes of The Code (2018)
When you answer Confident Caring questions, you need to make sure you pick answers that relate to the key traits of a good nurse/ midwife, which include honesty and integrity, safety, and team-working.
Think of the qualities of a good nurse/ midwife
The key for Confident Caring Assessment is that you should not choose the answer that closely matches what you would personally do. You need to think about the qualities of a good nurse/ midwife and choose the answer that best matches those.
Related scenario
Remember to rate the response, not the scenario. It is important that you focus on how appropriate or important the response to the scenario is, rather than the scenario itself. The question will really test how well you respond even when something has gone wrong. You will be asked to choose your response from three options. The three options will be as follows (but not always in this order!):
1. a very appropriate thing to do
2. appropriate, but not ideal
3. inappropriate, but not necessarily poor or dangerous practice
Remember that the scenario will ask you to think about what your role would be as a student nurse/ midwife. Your response should relate to how you act within that role.