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International Nurses Day 12 May 2014 was International Nurses Day. We hear from each Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) from the four UK countries on their views both on the past and coming year for nursing.
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ince International Nurses Day is observed throughout the world, it reminds all nurses that they belong to a worldwide family of professionals who share the joys and challenges of the role. This feeling of unity is tangible at Westminster Abbey when the UK nursing family joins together to celebrate the legacy of Florence Nightingale and to renew our vocation. The day is also a chance for me to reach out to the many thousands of nurses and nursing assistants, to
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ursing has come a long way since the days of caps, capes, cuffs and cycles, when nurses worked mainly in the local community or hospital and were seen as the doctors’ handmaidens. However, there are common values and principles that remain unchanged. They are care, compassion, dignity, and respect. Nurses are clinicians and carers and also, increasingly, educators, counsellors, advocates, researchers and improvers, system navigators, care coordinators or case managers for individuals’ families, and for groups, communities and populations. In keeping with the ‘Transforming Your Care’ vision, we expect to see increasing numbers of nurses choosing to work in roles that focus on empowering people to manage their own health and lifestyle or preventing people from becoming ill through anticipatory care as well as during times of ill-health. There is no doubt that the future will bring with it new challenges and I am confident that our nurses are prepared to overcome these and help to shape the future of our health service. Our challenge is to build on the values of our long history of service and care, and develop nursing for the rest of the 21st century and beyond. Charlotte McArdle, CNO, Northern Ireland
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nternational Nurses Day is an important point to stop and reflect on the achievements in nursing over the past year and look forward to the challenges ahead. My reflections have been coloured by reports such as the Francis Inquiry and ‘Trusted to Care’, a report into care in a health board in Wales, that illustrate the consequences when systems and practitioners fail to deliver safe, quality care.We must all take heed from such reports and ensure our attention never waivers from getting the essentials of care right; ensuring we have an appropriate multidisciplinary team able to meet the care needs of patients; and, importantly, that we listen and engage with individuals and their families to determine the right course of action in care.
thank them for their hard work and dedication over the year and encourage them to fulfil their own goals. It is also a chance to tell other people about nursing and, this year, the CNOs of the UK and RoI published a joint statement setting out our collective views on the future and the critical role that nurses play in securing the health and wellbeing of our countries today and in years to come. Ros Moore, CNO, Scotland
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nternational Nurses Day is a chance to celebrate and reflect on how far the profession has come. While the guiding principle of compassionate care remains, changing health needs and advances in science and technology have seen nursing develop and broaden. We have nurses working in many different settings across the health and care sector and most nurses now either have a degree or are studying for one. Nurses increasingly deliver holistic care that is centred around the needs of their patients, which includes some tasks that, traditionally, a doctor would have done. This is testament to the progression and advancement of nursing and its central role in the transformation of the NHS. At the same time, I see the pressure nurses face. Emergency admissions have risen and patients have more complex and serious conditions than ever before. The modern nursing challenge is to deliver consistent and improving high-quality care despite this growing demand. We need radical change and a culture of support if we are to help nurses respond to the challenges. I am consistently overwhelmed by the resolute determination of nurses to do the very best for their patients and I am as proud today to be a nurse as I was when I qualified over 30 years ago. Jane Cummings, CNO, England Highlights from this last year include the development of a care bundle to support vulnerable individuals with learning disabilities who are accessing acute hospital services. Last summer, we launched a framework for service-user experience feedback, which every organisation has embraced and its use will continue to expand this year. This year will see the introduction of national acuity and dependency tools to help inform decisions around nursing establishments. A particular pleasure is my annual CNO conference (22 May), which celebrates the multitude of achievements initiated and delivered by nurses and midwives in Wales. Jean White, CNO, Wales
© 2014 MA Healthcare Ltd
Editorial Board David Aldulaimi, Consultant Physician, Gastroenterologist, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Palo Almond, Academic and Research Consultant, Anglia Ruskin University Irene Anderson, Prinicipal Lecturer and Reader in Learning and Teaching in Healthcare Practice, University of Hertfordshire Russell Ashmore, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing, Sheffield Hallam University Steve Ashurst, Critical Care Nurse Lecturer, Maelor Hospital, Wrexham Christopher Barber, Residential Nurse Dimitri Beeckman, Lecturer and Researcher, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery, King’s College London Lizzy Bernthal, Research Fellow and Lead Nursing Lecturer, Medical Directorate, Birmingham Martyn Bradbury, Clinical Skills Network Lead, University of Plymouth Emma Collins, Senior Sister, Practice Development Lead, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust Alison Coull, Lecturer, Department of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Stirling, Scotland David Delaney, Charge Nurse, Clinical Research, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Jane Fox, Independent Consultant, Derbyshire Alan Glasper, Professor of Child Health Nursing, University of Southampton Angela Grainger, Assistant Director of Nursing, King’s College Hospital NHS Trust, London Michelle Grainger, Ward Manager, Moseley Hall Hospital, Birmingham Helen Holder, Senior Lecturer, Nursing Studies, Birmingham City University Mina Karamshi, Specialist Sister in Radiology, Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead Joanne McPeake, Acute Specialist Nurse/Senior Staff Nurse in Critical Care; Honourary Lecturer/Practitioner in Critical Care, University of Glasgow Andrew McVicar, Reader, Dept of Mental Health & Learning Disabilities, Anglia Ruskin University Danny Meetoo, Lecturer in Adult Nursing, University of Salford Mervyn Morris, Director, Centre for Mental Health Policy, Birmingham City University Aru Narayanasamy, Associate Professor, University of Nottingham Ann Norman, RCN Criminal Justice Services Nursing Adviser and Learning Disability Nursing Adviser Joy Notter, Professor, Birmingham City University & Saxion University of Applied Science, Netherlands Anne-Maria Olphert, Chief Nurse, Director of Quality, Erewash CCG, Derbyshire Hilary Paniagua, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Wolverhampton Ian Peate, Director of Studies, Head of School, Gibraltar Health Authority Bernadette Porter, Nurse Consultant, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCLH NHS Trust Angela Robinson-Jones, Consultant Nurse, Gynaecology, Liverpool Women’s Hospital John Tingle, HRS Reader in Health Law, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University Geoffrey Walker, Matron for Medicine, Cardiology and Specialist Nursing Services Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Catherine Whitmore, Research Nurse, Diabetes and Endocrinology, University of Liverpool Jo Wilson, Director, Wilson Healthcare Services, Newcastle Cate Wood, Lecturer, Bournemouth University, PhD student at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Sue Woodward, Lecturer, Specialist and Palliative Care, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London
British Journal of Nursing, 2014, Vol 23, No 10
British Journal of Nursing. Downloaded from magonlinelibrary.com by 165.123.034.086 on December 6, 2015. For personal use only. No other uses without permission. . All rights reserved.
504
International Nurses Day 12 May 2014 was International Nurses Day. We hear from each Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) from the four UK countries on their views both on the past and coming year for nursing.
S
ince International Nurses Day is observed throughout the world, it reminds all nurses that they belong to a worldwide family of professionals who share the joys and challenges of the role. This feeling of unity is tangible at Westminster Abbey when the UK nursing family joins together to celebrate the legacy of Florence Nightingale and to renew our vocation. The day is also a chance for me to reach out to the many thousands of nurses and nursing assistants, to
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ursing has come a long way since the days of caps, capes, cuffs and cycles, when nurses worked mainly in the local community or hospital and were seen as the doctors’ handmaidens. However, there are common values and principles that remain unchanged. They are care, compassion, dignity, and respect. Nurses are clinicians and carers and also, increasingly, educators, counsellors, advocates, researchers and improvers, system navigators, care coordinators or case managers for individuals’ families, and for groups, communities and populations. In keeping with the ‘Transforming Your Care’ vision, we expect to see increasing numbers of nurses choosing to work in roles that focus on empowering people to manage their own health and lifestyle or preventing people from becoming ill through anticipatory care as well as during times of ill-health. There is no doubt that the future will bring with it new challenges and I am confident that our nurses are prepared to overcome these and help to shape the future of our health service. Our challenge is to build on the values of our long history of service and care, and develop nursing for the rest of the 21st century and beyond. Charlotte McArdle, CNO, Northern Ireland
I
nternational Nurses Day is an important point to stop and reflect on the achievements in nursing over the past year and look forward to the challenges ahead. My reflections have been coloured by reports such as the Francis Inquiry and ‘Trusted to Care’, a report into care in a health board in Wales, that illustrate the consequences when systems and practitioners fail to deliver safe, quality care.We must all take heed from such reports and ensure our attention never waivers from getting the essentials of care right; ensuring we have an appropriate multidisciplinary team able to meet the care needs of patients; and, importantly, that we listen and engage with individuals and their families to determine the right course of action in care.
thank them for their hard work and dedication over the year and encourage them to fulfil their own goals. It is also a chance to tell other people about nursing and, this year, the CNOs of the UK and RoI published a joint statement setting out our collective views on the future and the critical role that nurses play in securing the health and wellbeing of our countries today and in years to come. Ros Moore, CNO, Scotland
I
nternational Nurses Day is a chance to celebrate and reflect on how far the profession has come. While the guiding principle of compassionate care remains, changing health needs and advances in science and technology have seen nursing develop and broaden. We have nurses working in many different settings across the health and care sector and most nurses now either have a degree or are studying for one. Nurses increasingly deliver holistic care that is centred around the needs of their patients, which includes some tasks that, traditionally, a doctor would have done. This is testament to the progression and advancement of nursing and its central role in the transformation of the NHS. At the same time, I see the pressure nurses face. Emergency admissions have risen and patients have more complex and serious conditions than ever before. The modern nursing challenge is to deliver consistent and improving high-quality care despite this growing demand. We need radical change and a culture of support if we are to help nurses respond to the challenges. I am consistently overwhelmed by the resolute determination of nurses to do the very best for their patients and I am as proud today to be a nurse as I was when I qualified over 30 years ago. Jane Cummings, CNO, England Highlights from this last year include the development of a care bundle to support vulnerable individuals with learning disabilities who are accessing acute hospital services. Last summer, we launched a framework for service-user experience feedback, which every organisation has embraced and its use will continue to expand this year. This year will see the introduction of national acuity and dependency tools to help inform decisions around nursing establishments. A particular pleasure is my annual CNO conference (22 May), which celebrates the multitude of achievements initiated and delivered by nurses and midwives in Wales. Jean White, CNO, Wales
© 2014 MA Healthcare Ltd
Editorial Board David Aldulaimi, Consultant Physician, Gastroenterologist, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Palo Almond, Academic and Research Consultant, Anglia Ruskin University Irene Anderson, Prinicipal Lecturer and Reader in Learning and Teaching in Healthcare Practice, University of Hertfordshire Russell Ashmore, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing, Sheffield Hallam University Steve Ashurst, Critical Care Nurse Lecturer, Maelor Hospital, Wrexham Christopher Barber, Residential Nurse Dimitri Beeckman, Lecturer and Researcher, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery, King’s College London Lizzy Bernthal, Research Fellow and Lead Nursing Lecturer, Medical Directorate, Birmingham Martyn Bradbury, Clinical Skills Network Lead, University of Plymouth Emma Collins, Senior Sister, Practice Development Lead, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust Alison Coull, Lecturer, Department of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Stirling, Scotland David Delaney, Charge Nurse, Clinical Research, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Jane Fox, Independent Consultant, Derbyshire Alan Glasper, Professor of Child Health Nursing, University of Southampton Angela Grainger, Assistant Director of Nursing, King’s College Hospital NHS Trust, London Michelle Grainger, Ward Manager, Moseley Hall Hospital, Birmingham Helen Holder, Senior Lecturer, Nursing Studies, Birmingham City University Mina Karamshi, Specialist Sister in Radiology, Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead Joanne McPeake, Acute Specialist Nurse/Senior Staff Nurse in Critical Care; Honourary Lecturer/Practitioner in Critical Care, University of Glasgow Andrew McVicar, Reader, Dept of Mental Health & Learning Disabilities, Anglia Ruskin University Danny Meetoo, Lecturer in Adult Nursing, University of Salford Mervyn Morris, Director, Centre for Mental Health Policy, Birmingham City University Aru Narayanasamy, Associate Professor, University of Nottingham Ann Norman, RCN Criminal Justice Services Nursing Adviser and Learning Disability Nursing Adviser Joy Notter, Professor, Birmingham City University & Saxion University of Applied Science, Netherlands Anne-Maria Olphert, Chief Nurse, Director of Quality, Erewash CCG, Derbyshire Hilary Paniagua, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Wolverhampton Ian Peate, Director of Studies, Head of School, Gibraltar Health Authority Bernadette Porter, Nurse Consultant, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCLH NHS Trust Angela Robinson-Jones, Consultant Nurse, Gynaecology, Liverpool Women’s Hospital John Tingle, HRS Reader in Health Law, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University Geoffrey Walker, Matron for Medicine, Cardiology and Specialist Nursing Services Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Catherine Whitmore, Research Nurse, Diabetes and Endocrinology, University of Liverpool Jo Wilson, Director, Wilson Healthcare Services, Newcastle Cate Wood, Lecturer, Bournemouth University, PhD student at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Sue Woodward, Lecturer, Specialist and Palliative Care, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London
British Journal of Nursing, 2014, Vol 23, No 10
British Journal of Nursing. Downloaded from magonlinelibrary.com by 165.123.034.086 on December 6, 2015. For personal use only. No other uses without permission. . All rights reserved.
