REVALIDATION

So the time has come for revalidation? Hopefully you’ve been working in your journal as you go but, if not, now's the time to sit down with a pot of coffee and try to remember what you’ve done over the last three years.

MAKE SURE YOU SEND IN ALL THE RELEVANT INFO

NB: If you are self-employed or if you are not currently employed and/or do not have a manager who can verify your journal, at the beginning of your revalidation period you will need to identify a suitable peer to provide verification. This person is required to provide a signed letter to the LIANZA PR Board, confirming that they agree to view and verify your journal. If this person becomes unavailable during the revalidation period, you will need to advise a replacement to the LIANZA PR Board. This person would then view your journal and discuss your work with you. If confident that the journal represents your professional learning over the revalidation period, they would then sign a letter of validation to be submitted with your journal.

Once you have everything email your revalidation to officeadmin@lianza.org.nz

WHAT TO INCLUDE IN YOUR REVALIDATION JOURNAL

Your journal must show your professional development activities over a three year period.

The minimum requirements are:

  • coverage of the 6 Bodies of Knowledge Clusters - you must have at least two entries against each cluster
  • activities from three of the four Domains of Practice over the three years
  • 18 entries over the three year period (but no more than 21)
  • thoughtful and reflective comments on what you learned out of each activity.

WHAT THE REGISTRATION BOARD ARE LOOKING FOR

  • quality (not quantity or length), keep it to 50-100 words - just a couple of sentences per activity to quantify your learning
  • relevance of the activities to your role
  • well-balanced knowledge across the BoKs and domains
  • evidence of depth of learning gained, and thoughtful reflections on activities done and what specific thing/s you learned from them.

PLEASE BE SUCCINCT

Our PR Board members are volunteers and review your journal in their spare time.  At peak review times PR Board members can receive up to 10 journals each per month. By meeting the requirements you make their job a lot easier.

REVALIDATION TIMELINE

We try to return journals as quickly as possible, but it can take up to six weeks for the review process to complete.  We'll let you know how long it should be when we confirm receipt of your journal at the LIANZA office.

NEED HELP REVALIDATING? YOU COULD TRY:

  • Join the LIANZA Professional Registration community on LIANZA Connect
  • Support groups – take charge of your revalidation by setting up a group in your workplace and help each other out (that'll be another entry to put in your journal too)
  • Case Studies – talk to your colleagues about how they worked through their revalidation, what worked and what didn't. They might have some hints, tips and maybe even tricks to share!
  • Get in touch with the PR Board/LIANZA Office for support.

DOMAINS OF PRACTICE

In addition to covering the BoK clusters, your revalidation journal should be applied across the four domains of practice (at a minimum your journal should touch on three).

This sounds complicated but it isn’t – it just means that you need to vary the type of training or learning you choose to do when revalidating.  Don’t just read articles or attend courses, but try to include networking and leadership activities, and look at where you are learning on the job.

KNOWING
(PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE)		 DOING
(PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE)
Extending professional knowledge
and skills
Examples: Attending courses, meetings,
presentations, study, on the job training, reading		 Applying professional skills
Examples: Developing and delivering services,
evaluating and improving current practice,
implementing new initiatives and procedures
SHARING
(COMMUNICATION)		 LEADING
(PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP)
Sharing knowledge and expertise and
developing professional relationships
Examples: Networking and liaising, contributing
to online discussions, giving presentations,
publishing, marketing		 Displaying leadership and initiative
(this will vary according to your position)
Examples: planning or organizing a meeting,
seminar or project, recommending improvements,
leading or supporting colleagues, mentoring and encouraging others, advocating for change

LEARNING TO WRITE REFLECTIVELY

The Professional Registration Board expects you to write reflectively in the ‘What specific thing/s did you learn professionally?’ field for each entry in your journal. 

Reflecting on practice has become an important part of the continuing competence process. It gives you the opportunity to step back and examine your work critically, enabling you to identify areas for improvement and gain a better understanding of your work practices. By writing reflectively, professionals can develop more effective strategies for tackling work-related challenges and further their professional growth. Reflective writing encourages professionals to pause and consider how their work is progressing and how it could be improved. This helps to identify areas of growth and areas needing further development.

There is a variety of resources to assist you with reflective writing. Here is a blog post on the LIANZA Kōrero blog.

WRITING REFLECTIVELY IN YOUR REVALIDATION JOURNAL