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Petra Kendall-Raynor is a freelance journalist RESOURCES Overview of the Nursing Technology Fund (NTF) tinyurl.com/NTFNHSE NTF-funded projects 2013/14 tinyurl.com/NTFprojects Synopsis IQ : digital preoperative assessment tinyurl.com/SynopsisIQ
Dame June Clark hopes the travel grants she is offering nurses will improve care. Frances Pickersgill spoke to her
Broadening horizons A nursing professor is funding a travel scholarship to help nurses in Wales increase their understanding of practice in other parts of the world. Dame June Clark, emeritus professor of community nursing at Swansea University, said: ‘I want nurses in Wales to have the benefits I was given when I was a student and throughout my nursing career – to travel and meet nurses from other countries. ‘What I learned opened my eyes and has influenced my ideas about nursing in so many ways. I think UK nurses could learn a lot from nursing in other parts of the world.’ One of the areas about which Professor Clark feels strongly, and that she hopes to see reflected in the first round of applications, is nursing informatics, especially the use of electronic patient records and standardised terminology. ‘I want to see electronic health records that support practice and enable nursing data to be used to identify outcomes. ‘I also want to see projects and learning about the care of older people and, of course, my particular interest – community nursing,’ Professor Clark says. Since this is a new scholarship, there is some flexibility in the number of awards and the amount to be awarded in each, but it is likely to be up to £500 per scholarship.
Calendar The Queen’s Nursing Institute has nursing heritage wall calendars for sale. The calendars feature nursing photographs from the early years of the NHS that were rediscovered last year. They show nurses at work in London and Norfolk. The calendar also includes cartoons from the Queen’s Nurses’ Magazine during the first world war and questions from 100-year-old Queen’s Nurse exam papers. Calendars are £5 plus £1 p&p. www.qni.org.uk/shop Antibiotics More than 8,000 healthcare professionals and 3,500 members of the public have pledged to help reduce antibiotic resistance. The Antibiotic Guardian was launched by Public Health England as part of European Antibiotic Awareness
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According to InformaticsCIS, the company behind the system, Synopsis IQ was designed by anaesthetists and nurses. All information about the patient, including test results and risk scores, is visible to whoever is working with the patient. Ms Kinnear says the system helps nurses with data collection and any further analysis of pre-operative assessments. If a nurse is in one of the clinic rooms, all the information can be seen on screen. Information that previously was held in different locations will now be on a single system. If a patient returns for a second visit, all the information is still available. ‘We see it as a much safer system for patients – information is less likely to disappear and staff are free to spend more time with patients,’ says Ms Kinnear. ‘Technology is the way forward’ NS
Dame June Clark: ‘Travel opened my eyes’
Applications for the scholarship are invited from nurses working in Wales who hold a statutory nursing qualification or from students undertaking an approved course in Wales leading to a statutory nursing qualification are also invited to apply. Preference will be given to applicants who are early in their nursing careers NS Application forms are available from June Clark: [email protected]. The closing date for applications is March 18
Day. The campaign encourages more people to make pledges to save antibiotics. Pledges include reminding patients to take the full course of antibiotics and to take them at prescribed intervals. See tinyurl.com/ABGuardian Bursaries The RCN Foundation Professional Bursary Scheme will be launched in February with a closing date in April. Bursaries are worth up to £5,000 to support nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants in learning and development activities that enhance patient care, patient experience and development in nursing practice. The bursaries are offered for activities that focus on primary care nursing and/or long-term/chronic conditions. See tinyurl.com/RCNPBS january 21 :: vol 29 no 21 :: 2015 65
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Petra Kendall-Raynor is a freelance journalist RESOURCES Overview of the Nursing Technology Fund (NTF) tinyurl.com/NTFNHSE NTF-funded projects 2013/14 tinyurl.com/NTFprojects Synopsis IQ : digital preoperative assessment tinyurl.com/SynopsisIQ
Dame June Clark hopes the travel grants she is offering nurses will improve care. Frances Pickersgill spoke to her
Broadening horizons A nursing professor is funding a travel scholarship to help nurses in Wales increase their understanding of practice in other parts of the world. Dame June Clark, emeritus professor of community nursing at Swansea University, said: ‘I want nurses in Wales to have the benefits I was given when I was a student and throughout my nursing career – to travel and meet nurses from other countries. ‘What I learned opened my eyes and has influenced my ideas about nursing in so many ways. I think UK nurses could learn a lot from nursing in other parts of the world.’ One of the areas about which Professor Clark feels strongly, and that she hopes to see reflected in the first round of applications, is nursing informatics, especially the use of electronic patient records and standardised terminology. ‘I want to see electronic health records that support practice and enable nursing data to be used to identify outcomes. ‘I also want to see projects and learning about the care of older people and, of course, my particular interest – community nursing,’ Professor Clark says. Since this is a new scholarship, there is some flexibility in the number of awards and the amount to be awarded in each, but it is likely to be up to £500 per scholarship.
Calendar The Queen’s Nursing Institute has nursing heritage wall calendars for sale. The calendars feature nursing photographs from the early years of the NHS that were rediscovered last year. They show nurses at work in London and Norfolk. The calendar also includes cartoons from the Queen’s Nurses’ Magazine during the first world war and questions from 100-year-old Queen’s Nurse exam papers. Calendars are £5 plus £1 p&p. www.qni.org.uk/shop Antibiotics More than 8,000 healthcare professionals and 3,500 members of the public have pledged to help reduce antibiotic resistance. The Antibiotic Guardian was launched by Public Health England as part of European Antibiotic Awareness
NURSING STANDARD
JOHN HOULIHAN
According to InformaticsCIS, the company behind the system, Synopsis IQ was designed by anaesthetists and nurses. All information about the patient, including test results and risk scores, is visible to whoever is working with the patient. Ms Kinnear says the system helps nurses with data collection and any further analysis of pre-operative assessments. If a nurse is in one of the clinic rooms, all the information can be seen on screen. Information that previously was held in different locations will now be on a single system. If a patient returns for a second visit, all the information is still available. ‘We see it as a much safer system for patients – information is less likely to disappear and staff are free to spend more time with patients,’ says Ms Kinnear. ‘Technology is the way forward’ NS
Dame June Clark: ‘Travel opened my eyes’
Applications for the scholarship are invited from nurses working in Wales who hold a statutory nursing qualification or from students undertaking an approved course in Wales leading to a statutory nursing qualification are also invited to apply. Preference will be given to applicants who are early in their nursing careers NS Application forms are available from June Clark: [email protected]. The closing date for applications is March 18
Day. The campaign encourages more people to make pledges to save antibiotics. Pledges include reminding patients to take the full course of antibiotics and to take them at prescribed intervals. See tinyurl.com/ABGuardian Bursaries The RCN Foundation Professional Bursary Scheme will be launched in February with a closing date in April. Bursaries are worth up to £5,000 to support nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants in learning and development activities that enhance patient care, patient experience and development in nursing practice. The bursaries are offered for activities that focus on primary care nursing and/or long-term/chronic conditions. See tinyurl.com/RCNPBS january 21 :: vol 29 no 21 :: 2015 65
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