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The role of the Professional Nurse Advocate: improving both staff and patient safety
Content ArticleMartin Hogan, Lead Professional Nurse Advocate (PNA) at Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, tells us about the PNA training programme and the impact and improvements it can have on both staff and patient safety. He shares his own personal development from taking the programme, how he has used the skills learnt to educate and support his colleagues, and explains why he is championing the PNA to others and has set up a network of PNAs.
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What it’s like to be a nurse during COVID-19: A visual interview
Content ArticleIn this comic-strip style piece of art, Daniel Locke interviews nurse Daniel Hansen about his experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the medium of graphics, this interview is increasingly more realistic and powerful
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Frontline insights during the pandemic: interview with a chief nurse of clinical productivity
Content Article CommentI don’t feel I particularly did this person enough justice. Clearly very effected and disturbed by there experience. I gave a lot of support, but was difficult to capture all the interview. Trying to stick to the point and get the main message across. But clearly a lot more to unpack. For clarity the chief nurse expressed concern on resuscitation guidelines in terms of staff safety. Staff were very vulnerable and at risk with lack of appriopriate PPE. Concern was raised for his staff being put at risk, though understanding the necessity.
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Frontline insights during the pandemic: interview with a chief nurse of clinical productivity
Content ArticleThis interview is part of the hub's 'Frontline insights during the pandemic' series where Martin Hogan interviews healthcare professionals from various specialties to capture their experience and insight during the coronavirus pandemic. Here Martin interviews a chief nurse of clinical productivity leading dynamic change within culture and governance. 15 years in the post, the chief nurse is responsible for leading improvement in standards of nursing and service.
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Frontline insights during the pandemic: Interview with a paramedic
Content ArticleThis interview is part of the hub's 'Frontline insights during the pandemic' series where Martin Hogan interviews healthcare professionals from various specialties to capture their experience and insights during the coronavirus pandemic. Here Martin interviews an advanced specialist paramedic working in central London with four years' experience of working on the frontline.
- Frontline insights during the pandemic: interview with an oral surgeon
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Frontline insights during the pandemic: interview with an oral surgeon
Content ArticleThis interview is part of the hub's 'Frontline insights during the pandemic' series where Martin Hogan interviews healthcare professionals from various specialties to capture their experience and insight during the coronavirus pandemic. Here Martin interviews an oral surgeon who has been in the post for a year in a trust that covers two sites in the West Country.
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Frontline insights during the pandemic: interview with a student district nurse
Content Article Comment. Such an interesting discussion. I was saddened but truely understood why so many of my interviewees wishes to stay anonymous.
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Frontline insights during the pandemic: interview with a student district nurse
Content Article CommentInterested to hear you the readers thoughts,
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Frontline insights during the pandemic: interview with a student district nurse
Content ArticleIn a new series for the hub, Martin will be interviewing healthcare professionals from various specialties to capture their experience and insight during the coronavirus pandemic. Learning from frontline staff is crucial, now more than ever. Prior to a predicted second wave hitting us, the government and leaders must listen to what has gone well but, most importantly, not so well for both staff and patients. Martin is a passionate nurse working on a covid unit and wants to promote learning to ensure patient and staff safety. This initially started as a way of connecting and not feeling alone but what Martin has found is that there are many voices that need and want to be heard but just don’t know how to speak up and out. In all of the interviews the healthcare professionals wanted to remain anonymous which is indicative of their fear of reprisals from their organisation. In this first interview, Martin interviews a new student district nurse who has been working within the community in the South West. Their role involves supporting care homes with end of life care and assisting in keeping people with long term conditions at home.
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"I know this is burnout. I didn’t want it to be. But it is."
Content Article CommentI couldn’t agree with this article more. ive burnt out so much it’s light a fire for me to leave nursing! I look above at the leaders , most have never worked on the shop floor, but they have a masters. So that makes them clinically sound. everyone I speak to feels broke and done. its very sad to hear such a dynamic nurse say this. But I feel exactly the same! Who do you discuss this with? Where do you go from here? difficult time. Needed to be said though.
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Safety culture during a pandemic: a nurse’s perspective
Content Article CommentThanks for your comment and compassion. I have seen some amazing things from patients, who have made there own PPE. An 8year old girl making plastic visors from staff. Knitting groups making masks. I think from the patient side this has been brilliant. if this was to happen again. I think a local government set up coordinating groups (which I believe there are in some parts of the country) could help, this also as you expressed gives people some helpful purpose.
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Safety culture during a pandemic: a nurse’s perspective
Content ArticleI was requested to work on a COVID-19 assessment /high dependency unit during the start of the pandemic which, as a nurse, of course I accepted. The national sense of duty was palpable. Thousands of retired nurses would return to the front-line. A huge flurry of national comradery and patriotism made us proud to be the NHS. In this blog I draw upon my professional experience during this time and reflect on how staff and patient safety have been impacted and what has and hasn’t worked well. I focus on five key areas: • Systemic transparency • Raising safety concerns • Staff mental health • After action review • Talking and listening to relatives.
- Royal College of Physicians: Talking about dying. How to begin honest conversations about what lies ahead (October 2018)
- Royal College of Physicians: Talking about dying. How to begin honest conversations about what lies ahead (October 2018)