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Martin 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. -
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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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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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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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.
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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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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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Content Article CommentInterested to hear you the readers thoughts,
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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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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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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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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.
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Content ArticleThe Talking about dying report seeks to offer advice and support for any doctor on holding conversations with patients much earlier after the diagnosis of a progressive or terminal condition, including frailty. The report identified that the timely, honest conversations about their future that patients want are not happening. Yet, these proactive discussions are fundamental to effective clinical management plans, part of being a medical professional and align with the aspirations of the Royal College of Physicians's Future Hospital Commission report. The Talking about dying report begins to highlight and challenge professional reluctance to engage in conversations with patients about uncertainty, treatment ceilings, resuscitation status and death. It offers some ‘mythbusters’ to get physicians thinking and we offer signposts to tools and educational resources to support physicians and other healthcare professionals.
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Content ArticleUseful up to date information from Resuscitation Council UK on COVID-19 resuscitation guidelines.
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Content Article CommentThank you.yes all valied points you make there. I have found since feeding back to matrons and people in charge that they have been responsive on the most part. The hardest bit is that they inform me we can’t change people’s personalities. Which of course I am aware of. But this i regarding professionalism and safety so a standard of practise should be meant. I have highlighted to the managers that when staff sign my form,it states they have to sign they have inducted me, for this shift I would not let it be signed and have raised concerns that have been listened to by my agency. Who have been wonderful. I think these experiences shouldn’t put people off agency but i understand why it does. perhaps bank nursing is the way forward to obtain safer environment. Sort of home grown staff, who are Fimiliar with trust etc.
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Content Article CommentThank you. Yes it scared me too. I did feedback to my agency who were very supportive and like you advised me to get in contact with matron and guardian. Which I did. However this was in my own/unpaid time. ( which I think would put a lot of agency nurses off doing so) patients I think are at risk with transient staff. Though the wards are only in need of transient staff if staff shortages. These staff shortages are due to retention, unpleasant work environment, national shortages of nurses. Lack of development. so potentially rentention and staff happiness is also a very important part of safety
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Content ArticleI'm Martin. In this blog I want to talk about my role as a Macmillan acute oncology clinical nurse specialist (CNS) and what our team has done to improve patient safety within the acute ward of our hospitals. Coming from a non-oncology background there was a lot to learn when I moved into acute oncology. My background was mainly acute cardiac and respiratory, but this allowed me to notice how powerful and time effective the presence of an acute oncology CNS could be in improving cancer patient safety within the emergency department.
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Content Article CommentVery brave and realistic article. i often feel the same. I think this is the way forward though to be honest. Being brave and saying it how it is. i do the same more so with one particular Doctor who I know when he sees me, he will start rolling out instructions and questions. When I’m busy or have too many acute responsibilities in all honestly I looks the other way when I see him, as he does exactly the same with me too.
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Content ArticleIt’s the little ripples from management that make a huge impact on safety for staff. If we don’t look after our staff, we won’t have anyone to safeguard our patients. It’s simple really! This going home checklist helps remind staff how important it is to look after their own mental health and well-being.
