World Stop the Pressure Day: Tissue viability care in challenging environments

Last in our World Stop the Pressure Day spotlight today is Deborah Taylor. The Forensic/Mental Health Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse told us how she is working to develop her brand new role at the Trust. 

World Stop the Pressure Day: Protecting vulnerable children from pressure ulcers

Next up in our World Stop the Pressure Day spotlight is Kimberley Bignall. Kimberley is a Paediatric Tissue Viability Nurse, helping to improves the care for vulnerable children across the county, reducing their risk of pressure ulcers and other skin damage. Here she tells us more. 

World Stop the Pressure Day: Working with teams in the local community

Throughout World Stop the Pressure Day today, we're showcasing the fantastic work of the Trust's Tissue Viability Team. 

To kick things off, Rebecca Laurie, a Tissue Viability Nurse - Community takes us through a typical day supporting patients and empowering staff to deliver the best possible wound care.

Helping people adapt to new ways of living during the coronavirus pandemic

Megan Dixon

The Trust’s Let’s Talk – Wellbeing service provides patients across Nottingham City and parts of Nottinghamshire, and Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland with psychological assessment and treatment (talking therapies) for common mental health problems.

Megan Dixon, Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner, is one of the team offering telephone support for people experiencing mental health issues such as anxiety and depression. She says that while the problems patients speak to her about haven’t essentially changed over the last few months, they have clearly been exacerbated by the isolation people are feeling.

Staff Recognition Week: Creating artworks to celebrate the NHS during Mental Health Awareness Week

Throughout week commencing 21 – 25 September, we are holding a special staff Recognition Week to say thank you to our fabulous staff for everything they have done over the past few difficult months and continue to do during the Coronavirus pandemic.

The Recognition Week will showcase and celebrate the amazing work of our staff and how they have been innovative in adapting their practices to ensure that our patients and service users have continued to get the very best care and treatment possible throughout this time. The commitment of our staff to making a difference in these unprecedented times is truly inspiring.  You can read about our inspiring staff and how they have adapted during the pandemic below. 

An art competition held as part of Mental Health Awareness Week in May encouraged Trust colleagues and their families to get creative and send in poems, short stories and drawings that celebrated the role and achievements of the NHS.

Staff Recognition Week: Supporting patient involvement at HMP Leicester

Throughout week commencing 21 – 25 September, we are holding a special staff Recognition Week to say thank you to our fabulous staff for everything they have done over the past few difficult months and continue to do during the Coronavirus pandemic.

The Recognition Week will showcase and celebrate the amazing work of our staff and how they have been innovative in adapting their practices to ensure that our patients and service users have continued to get the very best care and treatment possible throughout this time. The commitment of our staff to making a difference in these unprecedented times is truly inspiring.  You can read about our inspiring staff and how they have adapted during the pandemic below. 

Patient involvement is at the heart of the HMP Leicester Healthcare Team’s work, with team members listening to and engaging with patients to help improve services and understand their experiences.

During the coronavirus pandemic, patient opinions and experience continue to be invaluable, with many necessary changes to services and regimes impacting patients and staff alike.

Staff Recognition Week: Supporting vulnerable young families safely during Covid-19

Throughout week commencing 21 – 25 September, we are holding a special staff Recognition Week to say thank you to our fabulous staff for everything they have done over the past few difficult months and continue to do during the Coronavirus pandemic.

The Recognition Week will showcase and celebrate the amazing work of our staff and how they have been innovative in adapting their practices to ensure that our patients and service users have continued to get the very best care and treatment possible throughout this time. The commitment of our staff to making a difference in these unprecedented times is truly inspiring.  You can read about our inspiring staff and how they have adapted during the pandemic below. 

The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is a home visiting parenting programme delivered across Nottinghamshire to first-time young mothers, their partners and families. It supports up to 375 young families at a time to have a healthy pregnancy, improve their child’s physical and emotional health and development, plan their own futures and achieve their aspirations.

Staff Recognition Week: Maintaining transgender health services through Covid-19

Throughout week commencing 21 – 25 September, we are holding a special staff Recognition Week to say thank you to our fabulous staff for everything they have done over the past few difficult months and continue to do during the Coronavirus pandemic.

The Recognition Week will showcase and celebrate the amazing work of our staff and how they have been innovative in adapting their practices to ensure that our patients and service users have continued to get the very best care and treatment possible throughout this time. The commitment of our staff to making a difference in these unprecedented times is truly inspiring.  You can read about our inspiring staff and how they have adapted during the pandemic below. 

The Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health supports people with a range of issues to do with gender identity healthcare. This includes providing transgender healthcare to people who identify as transgender and/or non-binary.  

The Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health team

Staff Recognition Week: Developing new ways to deliver pulmonary rehab services

Throughout week commencing 21 – 25 September, we are holding a special staff Recognition Week to say thank you to our fabulous staff for everything they have done over the past few difficult months and continue to do during the Coronavirus pandemic.

The Recognition Week will showcase and celebrate the amazing work of our staff and how they have been innovative in adapting their practices to ensure that our patients and service users have continued to get the very best care and treatment possible throughout this time. The commitment of our staff to making a difference in these unprecedented times is truly inspiring.  You can read about our inspiring staff and how they have adapted during the pandemic below. 

Patients accessing the Trust’s Community Pulmonary Rehabilitation service are a particularly vulnerable and high-risk group for Covid-19, so the teams faced a real challenge in continuing to provide a pulmonary rehabilitation programme.

Staff Recognition Week: Finding new ways to 'live well' with the John Eastwood Hospice

Throughout week commencing 21 – 25 September, we are holding a special staff Recognition Week to say thank you to our fabulous staff for everything they have done over the past few difficult months and continue to do during the Coronavirus pandemic.

The Recognition Week will showcase and celebrate the amazing work of our staff and how they have been innovative in adapting their practices to ensure that our patients and service users have continued to get the very best care and treatment possible throughout this time. The commitment of our staff to making a difference in these unprecedented times is truly inspiring.  You can read about our inspiring staff and how they have adapted during the pandemic below. 

The day services at John Eastwood Hospice closed for patient safety just ahead of the coronavirus lockdown, but the team was determined this wouldn’t mean an end to the support they offer.

The team works with a wide range of people, from those first receiving a diagnosis of long term ill health to those nearing the end of life. During the pandemic they have been supporting individuals at a distance, while also working hard to redesign services for the future, so they can get up and running again as quickly as possible.

John Eastwood Hospice team

Staff Recognition Week: Continuing to talk wellbeing during challenging times

Throughout week commencing 21 – 25 September, we are holding a special staff Recognition Week to say thank you to our fabulous staff for everything they have done over the past few difficult months and continue to do during the Coronavirus pandemic.

The Recognition Week will showcase and celebrate the amazing work of our staff and how they have been innovative in adapting their practices to ensure that our patients and service users have continued to get the very best care and treatment possible throughout this time. The commitment of our staff to making a difference in these unprecedented times is truly inspiring.  You can read about our inspiring staff and how they have adapted during the pandemic below. 

The Trust’s Let’s Talk Wellbeing service provides psychological assessment and treatment (talking therapies) for common mental health problems for patients in Nottingham City and parts of Nottinghamshire, and Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Staff Recognition Week: Letters from new friends ease the loneliness for Lings Bar patients

Throughout week commencing 21 – 25 September, we are holding a special staff Recognition Week to say thank you to our fabulous staff for everything they have done over the past few difficult months and continue to do during the Coronavirus pandemic.

The Recognition Week will showcase and celebrate the amazing work of our staff and how they have been innovative in adapting their practices to ensure that our patients and service users have continued to get the very best care and treatment possible throughout this time. The commitment of our staff to making a difference in these unprecedented times is truly inspiring.  You can read about our inspiring staff and how they have adapted during the pandemic below. 

Patients and staff at Lings Bar hospital had an amazing boost from well-wishers during the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, with letters, cards and pictures sent in by hundreds of local people as part of the Dear Friend project.

                                                

Lings Bar Ward team

The valuable work of Community Therapy Teams

We’re highlighting the valuable work of the Trust’s Community Therapy Teams who have adapted their work during the pandemic to continue to support patients like June, aiding recovery and reducing further risk. This has been particularly important for older patients who, in this period of self-isolation, are at greater risk.

June with Physiotherapist Chloe

Learning Disability Week 2020

For Learning Disability Week 2020 (15-21 June), Sarah Atkinson, Learning Disabilities Primary Care Liaison Nurse talks about the support on offer and the importance of health checks for people with Learning Disabilities.

International Nurses Day 2020: “I loved nursing from the minute I started on my first ward.”

Penny Keith

For International Nurses Day, Penny Keith shares how her nursing career, which has spanned 36 years, has evolved from a graduate nurse to her current role as Associate Director of Nursing at the Trust. She also talks about all the challenges along the way.

International Nurses Day - Sara's story

There’s a famous Maya Angelou quote that reads “as a nurse we have the opportunity to heal the mind, soul, heart and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may forget your name, but they will never forget how you made them feel”. 

Making a difference - celebrating the Year of the Nurse and Midwife

2020 is the Year of the Nurse and Midwife and a chance to showcase and celebrate our nurses across the Trust and to renew perceptions of the profession. We want to take this opportunity to thank our nurses for their diverse talents and expertise and to promote nursing as a career with a great deal to offer.

Ruth Harrison is an acute learning disabilities nurse and is sharing her story of why she chose nursing as a career and how she is making a difference.

Ruth Harrison

Why an occupational therapy apprenticeship was right for me?

National Apprenticeships Week (3 to 9 February 2020) is here and celebrates and promotes all that is great about apprenticeships. It gives us a great opportunity to shine a light on our inspiring apprentices.

An apprenticeship combines on the job practical work experience, whilst studying, allowing you to gain experience and achieve a recognised qualification and earning an income.

Helen Baxter

As 43-year-old Helen Baxter approaches the half-way point in her apprenticeship, studying a BSc (Honours) Occupational Therapy degree, she shares what it’s really like to be an apprentice and its rewards and challenges.

Traineeship and apprenticeship has given me valuable life lessons

For National Apprenticeship Week (3 to 9 February 2020), Billy Williamson, apprentice in the Trust's Learning and Organisational Development Department, shares his story about how a traineeship and apprenticeship has been a valuable start to his career since leaving school.

Billy Williamson

My NHS apprenticeship journey

It’s National Apprenticeship Week (3 – 9 February 2020), and we’re putting a spotlight on apprenticeships and the opportunities they bring.  

Chloe Brumpton

Apprenticeships are a great way to learn and gain experience whilst gaining a qualification and money at the same time.  Whether you’re thinking about applying for an apprenticeship or not sure if they are right for you, our blog from 26-year-old physiotherapist apprentice, Chloe Brumpton, gives an insight into why she decided to go down the route of an apprenticeship over university and its rewards and challenges.