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Care to Share Issue 11 Spring 2021 Clinical System Framework Launch Our shared vision for continuous improvement, providing safe, effective and high quality care for all our service users. Reflections on my Nursing Reaping the Rewards British Journal of AHP Career Associates of Research Nursing Award Winner Page 4 Page 6 Page 17 Page 20 Contents P5 Issue 11 / Spring 2021 Page Welcome to RWT – Katrina Creedon and Ruth Spedding 3 Ravi Goyal and Carol Morris, Volunteers Reflections on my AHP Career 4 Community Clinical Volunteer Programme 5 P11 Nursing Associates 6 Urology Cancer Care Navigator 7 Serious Case Reviews 8-9 Donation by Orthotics Team 9 Emotional Wellbeing Support 10 Lisa Lawton, Matron for Pre-Registrant Nurse Education Welcome to RWT – Lisa Lawton 11 Meridian Celebration of Innovation Awards 11 P12-15 The Clinical System Framework 12-15 Competency Project 16 Reaping the Rewards of Research 17 The RWT Dignity Awards 2020 17 News in Brief 18-19 British Journal of Nursing Award Winner 20 A message from Professor Ann-Marie Cannaby Dear colleagues, will be mainly focussed on the new CSF the COVID-19 crisis. We can use the CSF along with the usual news, views and best to refocus, reframe what we are doing This Spring Edition of ‘Care to Share’ practice announcements to share with and look ahead. I continue to thank sees the beginning of longer and lighter you. you all and ask you to be proud of your days for us all and the signs of new life achievements. in the trees, hedgerows and the much The CSF is a two year detailed strategy of welcomed arrival of the seasonal plants how we as nurses, midwives and health Stay safe, such as daffodils and crocuses. It also visitors want to develop our services. gives me a great sense of satisfaction and I’m also delighted to welcome our allied Ann-Marie pride that we have been able, despite health professional colleagues to join all of the challenges we have faced us as we drive the strategy forward. It is together, to produce our new Clinical a good time for the Trust to launch this System Framework (CSF). This edition updated strategy as we emerge from 2 Care to Share Spring 2021 Welcome to Katrina and Ruth Katrina Creedon, Senior Matron (Quality Team) and Ruth Spedding, Senior Sister (Quality Team) Hello Katrina! Tell us about Hello Ruth! Tell us about your background… your background… In July of this year, I will have I became a Registered Nurse in been in nursing for 31 years. 1991 and started in my first post at East Birmingham Hospital. I trained at the Manor Hospital I started out in ward-based in Walsall and spent the first five surgical specialities, eventually years after qualifying as a Staff becoming a Ward Sister and Nurse within Cardiology. gaining experience in General I moved to Solihull Hospital in Katrina Creedon, Senior and Emergency Surgery, Surgical Ruth Spedding, Senior 1998 to take up my first Sister’s Matron (Quality Team) (High Dependency Unit), Vascular, Sister (Quality Team) post within Cardiology and Urology and Gynaecology. later became a Clinical Nurse Following this, I worked for Specialist. two years in critical care before leaving to specialise in acute and chronic pain management. In 2009 I joined the Corporate Nursing Team at Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull Hospitals with a focus on quality and safety. In 2009 I started my first corporate facing role; here my main work The team then merged with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS streams were centred on driving improvements in patient quality Foundation Trust. and safety in both nursing policy and across Trust procedures. I then moved to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, still working in In 2018 I moved into the Nursing Workforce Team; within this quality within Corporate Nursing, until joining RWT in December role I was involved in the mass recruitment to the Trainee Nursing 2020. Associate programme. I was also involved in patient acuity audits, workforce reviews and safe staffing systems. How do you feel to be joining RWT? I am thrilled and very proud to be joining RWT and the Quality How do you feel to be joining RWT? Team. I have been made to feel really welcome by all, for which I would like to say a huge thank you! The staff at RWT have been so welcoming to me, they are very knowledgeable and are positive role models for nursing. There is a What are your plans for your role? can-do approach which is fantastic and I look forward to meeting I am starting my journey at the Trust with my focus largely on and working with you all. I am also very impressed with the patient falls. How best can we try to reduce falls-related incidents, opportunities for staff development and learning. how can we safely manage our patients should they fall, and how What are your plans for your role? do we learn from these incidents, for example. The Quality Team and I will be focusing on the Clinical System As part of this work, some of the initiatives will be around revising Framework (CSF) with our nursing colleagues in early March, the falls risk assessment documentation, falls policy and other followed by the introduction of our new paper nursing supporting documentation. documentation on admission and a patient risk assessment booklet with care plans incorporated. I will be involved in the scrutiny of all falls that occur to identify learning outcomes. I would be very interested to hear about any We will be reviewing our nursing documentation, in particular local initiatives that are taking place within your areas to help hydration and fluid balance monitoring as a quality improvement reduce patient falls. project. Alongside this, we will be focussed on improvement projects around late observations, sepsis and missed medications. I am really looking forward to meeting and working with you all! Hiya Hello Spring 2021 Care to Share 3 Reflections on my Allied Health Professional (AHP) Career Dr Alison Aries, Physiotherapist / Lecturer / Clinical Academic Where did it all start? I was the Lead Cardiorespiratory I qualified many years ago from Physiotherapist for three years before Wolverhampton School of Physiotherapy, moving to Wolverhampton in 1998 into before the days of physiotherapy degrees, a senior post in medicine and neurology, commencing my career with a diploma in progressing to job share the Clinical physiotherapy. Coordinator post for Neurology and Rehabilitation. I was fortunate walking I worked in Redditch and Bromsgrove NHS straight into an Advanced Bobath course Trust and then Dudley Hospitals NHS Trust, which was running and this sealed my completing my basic physiotherapy grade. passion for neurological rehabilitation. I I stayed in Dudley for many years and never looked back. progressed onto a ‘Senior I’ post (Band 7 equivalent). How did I make a move into the academic world? In those days I was really interested in the I loved the teaching aspect of my Dr Alison Aries, Physiotherapist cardiovascular / respiratory side of the job physiotherapy role and so I decided to and I specialised in surgical and intensive try to pursue an academic physiotherapy prestigious awards from the NIHR: a care. It was an interesting job and I career. Clinical Research Network Scholarship developed my respiratory skills. As part and a Clinical Academic Post-Doctoral of the role, I worked with many patients Despite having young children at home, Fellowship. following amputation, even helping to I was determined to do my masters to set up the satellite prosthetic clinic at facilitate a move into lecturing. Writing Both awards will allow me to continue Wordsley Hospital (Dudley). academically did not come naturally to my research exploring the importance me, however, I somehow completed my of sensory stimulation to the lower limb, How did I end up pursuing a MSc in Neuromusculoskeletal Healthcare especially the foot, to facilitate motor career related to neurological at Keele University in 2003. activity and improved function after a rehabilitation? stroke. I ended up being made redundant from After working in a Sessional Lecturer post that job and I was relocated to medical from January 2003, I then secured a part As a clinician myself, I know it is and elderly care. Soon after the change I time Lecturer post in July 2003 at Keele important we drive research from the was lucky enough to be offered a place University. clinical environment and not just let on a three-week Bobath course – this people do the research in universities. We Challenges which led to a change of is a problem solving approach to the know what aspects need to be researched focus in my career assessment and treatment of individuals and we need to take ownership and drive with disturbances of function, movement July 1st 2008 was the day my life changed it forward. and postural control due to an issue with – I was diagnosed with breast cancer I am thrilled to be back working as a the central nervous system. and went on to have major surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Eight Clinical Academic with a remit of driving I found this somewhat scary because I did months off work gave plenty of time for neurological rehabilitation from within not have the same level of neurological reflection. RWT, while I look forward to supporting experience as most of the other others with a move into a research career. candidates on the course, but somehow, I reflected upon the fact I had completely I truly believe if I can do it, anyone can do I managed to complete the compulsory changed the lives of some of the stroke it! project and pass the course back in 1995- survivors I had rehabilitated.