This Is Nursing
By Gavin Portier Registered Nurse
This Is NursingOct 17, 2020
Trying to make something better & caring for people with HIV/AIDS In the 90’s - Russell Hart-Davies
Angela Glaves - RMN & Lecturer from Sheffield Hallam University
This is Part 2 of the conversation with Angela Glaves , RMN & Lecturer from Sheffield Hallam University.
In this part we cover a vast array of topics such as How did Angela become a lecturer, the challenges of teaching with Zoom. Exploring the realms of mental health nursing and the non patient/service user roles that are available. What career progression paths are available for RMNs. Angela tells a story about a shift where they had to take a dog to a dog shelter as part of the care needs for someone.
How inpatient mental health hospitals are structured and finally we finish we a very funny description of midwifery.
I found Angela to be really energetic, creative and can see why the students at Sheffield Hallam Uni enjoy her lessons.
Nursing in a Mental Health Crisis Team & Heavy Metal Therapy - Angela Glaves
In this episode of This Is Nursing, we speak with Angela Glaves. This is the first podcast that explores Mental Health Nursing. Angela is a registered Mental Health nurse. Works at Sheffield Hallam University as a MH Nursing lecturer for the last 3 years. Angela also still kept up her clinical career in the Sheffield MH NHS trust Crisis Team where I worked for the last 6 years. Before that she worked on a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit. Angela is a lover of heavy metal music and is the cofounder of a project called Heavy Metal Therapy.
For more info on Heavy Metal Therapy; Web: www.heavymetaltherapy.co.uk
Twitter: @heavytherapy
Instagram: heavymetaltherapy
Facebook: Heavy Metal Therapy
linker.ee/heavymetaltherapy
Developing new nursing roles for the future. Linda Crofts, Workforce Transformational Lead for HEE.
Happy 2021, Another year has started, although you wouldn't have know it in the UK. National lockdown number 2 put an end to any celebrations of bringing the new year and seeing off probably the worst we have faced in this millennium.
In this episode, we pick up with Linda Crofts from HEE. Linda talks about her role and explains about workforce development and transformation work across the healthcare sector and preparing for the future healthcare models and how nursing can develop.
Nursing Training in the 80's with Linda Crofts - Workforce Transformation Lead, Health Education England
The Nursing Home Nurse - The Lecturer. Covering Nursing homes in COVID19, What's a good death, Teaching & studying Nursing during a pandemic
In this Episode we speak with Kayleigh Evans, a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. We talk about Nursing Homes and the what is has been like during the COVID19 pandemic. Being a registered nurse in a care home/nursing home is an experience like no other and Kayleigh talks about the accountability that comes with the role and the different skills and situations these nurses find them selves in. There's a beautiful account of a good death that is very touching.
Kayleigh also talks about the role of a nursing lecturer and we get an insight into the way nursing is being taught during this COVID.
Kayleigh can be contacted;
Twitter @Kayleig29345413
Sheffield Hallam University - Nursing Faculty.
Stacey Ward - Capsule Endoscopy CNS. The visionary, innovator & trailblazer.
Amanda McKie, Learning Disability Nurse - An advocate, care coordinator and champion for person centred care and health care equality.
In this episode of This Is Nursing, we talk with Amanda McKie, Matron -for Learning Disabilities & Complex Needs Coordinator at Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.
I met Amanda by chance as she was undertaking a review of a learning disabilities service. Through talking to her, her passion and values around person centred care and drive to improve care and outcomes for people with learning disabilities was was palpable. After a 15minute corridor conversation I knew I needed her to talk about her role and the very complex and diverse world of being a Learning Disability Nurse.
Amanda has been working in this field of nursing all her career and had a calling to it from an early age in her life.
In this episode we talk about health inequalities, mental capacity, advocacy and high profile key documents such as; Death by Indifference, the LeDer Mortality programme and the current case of Oliver McGowan.
Learning disabilities is a life long condition and they can present in any areas of health care. In this podcast we discover how important it is to have an understanding an appreciation and insight into the care experience of a person with a learning disability and the their parents or carers.
I was amazed on a number of occasions in this podcast about the work Amanda, and the work of other learning disability nurses, do and the challenges and obstacles they need to overcome to ensure people with learning disability have a voice and access to the health care experience people without a disability come to expect.
In the podcast we refer to Death By Indifference; In March 2007, Mencap published Death by indifference, which reported the appalling deaths of six people with a learning disability – deaths that the six families involved and Mencap believe were the result of failings in the NHS.
I highly recommend you read this document either before of after listening to this podcast. The link is below.
https://www.mencap.org.uk/sites/default/files/2016-06/DBIreport.pdf
I hope you find listening to Amanda as enlightening and inspiring as I do.
Amanda can be contacted;
email: Amanda.Mckie@cht.nhs.uk
Twitter: @MckieAmanda
LinkedIn: Amanda McKie
We don't want a good wound. We want to prevent them!!! The Tissue Viability Clinical Nurse Specialist.
In this episode we speak with Alison Schofield, Tissue Viability Clinical Nurse Specialist from North Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Trust. Alison has worked in Tissue Viability since 2012 and during this time she has studied extensively in leading change in tissue viability , tissue viability management and Leg Ulcers. Alison is deeply passionate about tissue viability and in addition to her role, she is also Editor in Chief of Wound Care Today Digital Journal and has set up a number of virtual forums and resources to promote and educate nurses and other health care professionals on tissue viability. She talks about this in more detail the links to access these resources are in the description. We discussed the following subjects; The role of a Tissue Viability Clinical Nurse Specialist and the challenges facing the role in this current world of nursing The impact of COVID19 has had on the delivery of community tissue viability services and on people in receipt of the services in care homes and in their own homes. The psychosocial impact that leg ulcers can have on people. We hear a lovely patient story of how tissue viability turned a person's life from a deep hopeless depression to celebrating a new lease of life and seeking out new experiences. Therapeutic relationship between the TVN and the patient. The innovative ways to engage with nurses and health care professionals to educate and raise awareness online. Contact Alison or any of the TVN networks on these links: Twitter: @alischofield12 @TVNtogether @TVNvirtual YouTube: TVN2gether Digital Facebook: Lower limb clinicians 2gether
Nursing In Research
Due to social distancing, the there are some parts of the discussion that were not picked up as clearly through the microphone.
Nursing research is a vital part of driving standards of care, investigating and evaluating quality and safety of care and in many cases, improving people's quality of life. The team from Barnsley share their experiences of transition from more traditional nursing roles into the field of nursing research, the challenges they face in their work and how research studies offers opportunities for nurses to learn unique skills and many facets of healthcare. Where they get peer support , supervision and the wider research nursing network. They explain how research is funded and the importance of having research nurses being placed in organisations to as close to patients as to improve opportunities to recruit patients into studies.
They describe nursing research as delivering the research, NOT writing the research. Research is everybody's business and it's for the benefit of the patient. The team have some great ideas about making nursing research more accessible to nurses through delivering Research Cafes and offering taught courses. Interestingly, Nurses and midwives are by far the largest group of health care professionals involved in research and through the National Institute of Health Research, there are free online learning courses for those interested in the Nursing research. www.nihr.ac.uk/health-and-care-professionals/learning-and-support/ www.nihr.ac.uk/health-and-care-professionals/learning-and-support/good-clinical-practice.htm The team from Barnsley are happy to have nurses work alongside them for a day to learn more about the role. Barnsley Research team can be contacted via; Twitter: @BarnsleyRD www.barnsleyhospital.nhs.uk/research
School Nursing - Capturing the voice of the young person.
Courage to work in a new clinical area. Courage to work differently, Courage to return to nursing.
Currently I am on isolation and like many others, I am at home, doing home schooling, picking up work emails and trying not to eat for the sake of eating.
So to break up the day I decided to talk about the following topics;
- This month's call from the Nursing Midwifery Council in the UK to ex nurses and students to join the emergency register in response to COVID 19. There has been amazing public support and recognition of healthcare professionals, especially nurses, internationally.
- A reflection on my return to critical care and what i learnt about going from a corporate nursing role back into the direct care setting.
- The common ground in nursing in Critical Care and Elderly Care.
The podcast is around 11minutes in length so feel free to have a quick listen.
If you have any comments or suggestions, please leave a comment.
If you would like to share a nursing story or you are passionate about your nursing role and want to share it, please get in touch.
The podcast was recording in several sections so there are some changes in the volume of the recording.
Introducing:This is Nursing
In this first episode, I explain why I want to start podcasting about Nursing.
Nursing offers so much content for people to listen too. I will be publishing one episode per month, with the first being this short introduction. This episode gives a brief description of the types of podcasts I will be sharing in future and that the basis of them is to entertain the listener.
In a few weeks, hopefully before the end of March, I will be putting out another episode which involves interview with a nurse talking about their experience of Covid 19 / Corona Virus.
If this is something you are interested in listening to, please subscribe and feel free to let me know what else you'd like to hear about.