PDRP Documents & Forms | Hutt Valley DHB

Announcement

Nursing: New RN and EN competency standards and PDRP

Nursing Council New Zealand (NCNZ) have published new RN and EN scopes and competency standards. These come into effect from 20 January 2025.

We will be providing presentations, education and resources on these changes to nurses at a range of forums across the District throughout February and March to assist our workforce to familiarise with and embed these changes over the coming months.

A number of nurses are asking what this means for the PDRP. For the time-being nothing is changing. Our PDRP programmes will continue as they are well into 2025. The National DON group (Directors of Nursing for all Districts) is leading a project to update the PDRP Framework using these new competency standards. This will take time to develop and then implement, so we do not anticipate any changes to our local PDRP programmes within the next six months.

APC declarations and NCNZ recertification audits will reflect the new competency standards from 1 April 2025. For further information, visit NCNZ.

This page contains all the information and forms needed to complete an RN or EN portfolio using the Wairarapa & Hutt Valley PDRP Handbook.

Currently, all nurses working in Hutt Valley hospital, local Regional Public Health, and District Nursing are using ePortfolio. Paper portfolios will only be accepted from local NGOs, ARC and PHOs.

If you work for a health organisation within the Hutt Valley area, such as a PHO, NGO or ARC, then we can arrange access to ePortfolio for you. Please contact the Nurse Coordinator Professional Development PDRP@huttvalleydhb.org.nz if you would like to discuss using ePortfolio.

All of the how-to guides for ePortfolio are below and within the Ko Awatea gateway. If you require a Word version of the competencies, please select the appropriate level portfolio from the list below.

Please click the highlighted links below to download the documents you need:

NZNO has written some guidelines relating to the use of exemplars for PDRP. The NZNO Guidelines: Privacy, Confidentiality and Consent in the Use of Exemplars of Practice, Case Studies and Journaling 2016 can be downloaded by clicking and are very important for nurses writing reflections of practice for PDRP.

Please click the links below to see documents for specific PDRP Levels:

PLEASE NOTE These documents may not function as intended if you are using an Apple computer (MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac) but you can try using Open Office (a free program) that works like Microsoft Office but on a Mac.

Wairarapa PDRP documents can be downloaded from their website. Click here to visit their webpage.