electronic Practice Assessment Document (ePAD)

Practice Assessment Document (ePAD) system information for School of Nursing students, practice assessors, practice supervisors and academic assessors

ePAD is for Nursing students. The Practice Assessment Document (PAD) provides a comprehensive record of professional development and performance in practice.

Degree Nursing user guide

Return to Practice user guide

Nursing Associate user guide

ePAD user video

Return to practice ePAD user video

We recommend you do not use Internet Explorer when accessing ePAD as this disables several functions. Please use an alternative browser such as (but not restricted to): Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Safari or Mozilla Firefox

Other useful videos

Children's cardiac nursing care and management hero image

Who can sign off what in ePAD?

Practice supervisor

6Orientation
6Initial interview
6Assessment of proficiencies

Practice assessor

6Orientation
6Initial interview
6Mid-point interview
6Final interview
6OAR
6Assessment of proficiencies
6Episodes of care
6Medicines management

Proformas to print

Useful information

Please see the following article for guidance for writing an action plan with SMART goals, “How to write an action plan with a nurse or nursing student” by Simon Downs and Deanna Hodge.

Guidance documents for developing NMC proficiencies

Adult

Mental Health

Primary Care

Care Homes

Help and support

If you are having any difficulty using the ePAD site, please contact the POPPI team.

If you receive any error messages it is useful if you can send us a screenshot of the message along with the detail of when the message appeared.