Heartbeat December 2019
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Putting education at the heart of<br />
community nursing<br />
By Claire Stanier,<br />
Practice Education Lead<br />
We are all very excited to be in our<br />
new roles as part of the practice<br />
education team for the district<br />
nursing service.<br />
The team started functioning from 1<br />
October and includes practice education<br />
leads, Pamela While and Susan Knight<br />
and Andrew Churm, Practice Education<br />
Digital Lead.<br />
My role and that of Susan and Pamela’s<br />
involves working with the district<br />
nursing teams and colleagues at all<br />
levels including nurse associates, trainee<br />
nurse associates, student nurses and<br />
our new clinical leads. Some of the new<br />
clinical lead roles will be developed into<br />
specialist roles, focussing on areas such<br />
as tissue viability, continence, palliative<br />
care and diabetes.<br />
We have identified a number of priorities<br />
to help us support local teams. These<br />
priorities include:<br />
• Developing and improving<br />
competency frameworks to<br />
include all current skills used in<br />
the district nursing service.<br />
These new frameworks will be<br />
for all bands of staff and we<br />
will also be looking at the skill<br />
mix within the district nursing<br />
teams.<br />
Andy Churm is the new practice education<br />
digital lead<br />
• Looking at how we can make<br />
improvements to how colleagues<br />
access mandatory, compliance and<br />
personal development training.<br />
• Supporting the existing workforce<br />
to develop to a higher band and<br />
recognise their training<br />
requirements. We will be<br />
scheduling forums to support<br />
new colleagues in their roles.<br />
• Supporting teams to up-skill<br />
colleagues that are new, whether<br />
PRIMARY CARE, COMMUNITIES<br />
AND THERAPIES<br />
they are newly qualified or new to<br />
working in the community.<br />
• Encouraging and motivating<br />
student nurses to consider a career<br />
in district nursing. We will be<br />
compiling a booklet to support<br />
their learning in placement.<br />
Andrew Churm is our new digital lead and<br />
his role involves working with new starters<br />
to ensure they are sufficiently trained on<br />
SystmOne and how to access our files and<br />
systems via mobile working. Andrew is also<br />
looking at how we can improve SystmOne<br />
to include care plans and making the<br />
system more intuitive and easy to use. He<br />
is further exploring how colleagues can use<br />
SystmOne to monitor KPIs and carry out<br />
audits.<br />
We are dedicated to improving our service;<br />
focus on patient centred holistic care<br />
and helping colleagues develop in their<br />
roles and future career aspirations. We<br />
would very much welcome any ideas or<br />
suggestions of anything you feel we could<br />
support or help with.<br />
You can contact the team at swbh.<br />
practice-education.team@nhs.net<br />
Pamela, Susan and I are based at<br />
Neptune Health Park and Andrew is<br />
based at the Lyng Health Centre.<br />
Aspiring to excellence in community nursing - left to right: Susan Knight, Pam While and Claire Stanier<br />
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