![]() This topic was on the revolving programme agenda and very topical, given the patient safety alert issued in February 2016: ‘Stage one: warning. I was tasked with chairing and designing a session, and suggested diabetes insipidus. I am proud to say I was one of the 74 recipients of the Nightingale Nurse Award on International Nurses’ Day 2018.Ĭlick to enlarge WORKING WITH THE SOCIETYĪ key part of the Nightingale Nurse Award is providing evidence of practice feedback, and I was able to demonstrate this via my role in the planning committee for the Nurse sessions for the Society for Endocrinology BES conference 2017. For me, putting myself forward for the award was about strengthening my affiliation with the Trust and representing the outstanding nursing team we have in endocrinology. ![]() I have worked in the Trust since 1996, predominantly in endocrinology. The key requirements and benefits of achieving the Nightingale Nurse Award are highlighted in the Table. ![]() In summary, a Nightingale Nurse is an individual ‘who is a dedicated pioneer, innovative with an enquiring mind, who inspires others and goes beyond the call of duty’ and demonstrates the five Trust values in their everyday clinical practice: The Nightingale Nurse Award is for nurses who are deemed outstanding and who meet the definition of a ‘next generation Nightingale’. Prior to May 2018, the badge had last been awarded in 1996, before the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing moved to King’s College London. Historically, nurses who trained at St Thomas’ Hospital were known as ‘Nightingales’ and received a Nightingale badge on completion of their training. In September 2017, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust launched the Trust’s new professional award: the Nightingale Nurse Award. Louise Breen with Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer for England
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