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.

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”. 

Mental health nurses: “Without them, I don’t believe I would still be alive”

Joy Biddell wanted to share her story and say thank you to the nurses who made a huge difference to her recovery.

Since a young age I have struggled with my mental health. The first contact I had with services was with CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) during my teens and this was for OCD. I had struggled with OCD for many years, however I didn’t reach out for help until I was 16.

Taking Early Intervention in Psychosis to Africa

Community Psychiatric Nurse Tammy Palmer is traveling to Zimbabwe later this year to develop a pilot Early Intervention in Psychosis service.  Here, she talks about her motivation and hopes for the project and why she is embarking on the trip...

Working with the Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) Team has really shaped my life and passions within mental health nursing. I’ve worked with and seen so many young people experiencing psychosis for the first time and have been so privileged to be part of a team who help those young people, along with their families, to discover that there is a hope and a future, despite this really scary experience that can have so much stigma attached to it. It’s so inspiring, watching someone go from feeling extremely nervous and distrusting of themselves and others around them, to developing a new sense of confidence, supporting others, and moving on to succeed in their lives… so much so, that I have been inspired to take this specialist way of working to Zimbabwe - the place where I was born. 

What's it like to be a mental health nurse?

12 May is International Nurses' Day. We’re all familiar with the role of physical health nurses, but you might not know as much about psychiatric nurses. We spoke to Steven Daykin, who is a Ward Manager at Highbury Hospital, about what a psychiatric nurse does and what being a nurse means to him.

I got into psychiatric nursing because I had been around mental illness from a young age. My Grandma had Alzheimer’s, and from around the age of 10 I spent many a day in a psychiatric hospital in Derby. I was around very ill people, who didn’t know who they were and who were saying quite strange things. They were often emotional or sad, and this became a normal everyday environment for me.