By Mandeep Lally. Registered Nurse Adults, Patient Safety Support Nurse, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, Florence Nightingale Travel Scholar; Twitter: @Mandeep_Lally @FNightingaleF Nursing shift handovers may seem like such a basic and simple task which is embedded in the skills of every nurse. Yet the importance of the implications a nursing […]
Category: Florence Nightingale Scholar
My year as a Florence Nightingale Foundation Digital Leadership Scholar
This week’s blog is written Ellen Edwards (@EllenCEdwards), Senior Practice Educator – Clinical Support Desk, Welsh Ambulance Service. As with many nursing development journeys it all started with an email. Having always been enthusiastic about learning and personal development, when the email arrived in my inbox, I was quite intrigued. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE DIGITAL LEADERSHIP SCHOLARSHIP […]
Leadership lessons from Disney’s Peter Pan
“We’re following the leader, the leader, the leader, we’re following the leader wherever he may go. Tee dum, tee dee ……” This week’s Blog is written by Becky Thomas (@Becky_QICTM). Becky is a Senior Nurse for Improvement, she is described as being a creative, innovative, and enthusiastic individual with a great passion for nursing, improving […]
Last Breaths
This week’s blog is written by Dr Sarah Russell (@LearnPEOLC ) who is Lead Nurse for Palliative and End of Life Care at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust as well as being an @FNightingaleF scholar. Diagnosing dying can be challenging. Clinicians have limited accuracy in the prediction of patient survival (Hui et al 2011) and […]
It’s time to recognise the rebirth of telephone nursing
This week’s Blog is written by Ellen Edwards (@EllenCEdwards). Ellen is a Lead Clinical Educator/Trainer for the NHS 111 Wales Programme and one of this year’s Florence Nightingale Foundation (@FNightingaleF) Digital Leadership Scholars. The Covid19 pandemic has shed light on alternative ways of working none more so than in Telephone Nursing and Remote Clinical Decision […]