Elaine Cole

Primary Health Care

Four-day programme refreshes approach to end of life care in homelessness

RCNi Community Nursing Award 2017 finalist Gilly Barringer is a clinical nurse specialist in palliative care at St Luke’s Hospice in Plymouth, who led a collaborative project with 15 charities to ensure choice at end of life care for a growing homeless community in the city. Here she reveals the motivation behind her passion for this project.

Mental Health Practice

Therapeutic relationships and storytelling in mental health settings

​Jess Wilson was recently highly commended in the Mental Health Practice category of the RCNi Nurse Awards – here’s why.

Anne Thomas
Nursing Standard

How to turn your outpatient department into a health promotion hub

Staff nurse Anne Thomas, winner of the Community Nursing category at the RCNi Nurse Awards 2017, created a model of care for rural areas that reaches out to men.

Jo O'Toole
Nursing Standard

Courageous nurse is the Patient’s Choice

Joanna O'Toole has received one of the most prestigious accolades in nursing for her ‘compassionate, exceptional’ care, after being nominated by the family of a young girl with a rare syndrome.

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Nursing Standard

Community matrons win Nursing Older People Award for innovative training programme

Two community matrons’ groundbreaking approach to training care home staff is significantly reducing emergency department attendances and saving thousands of pounds.

Learning Disability Practice

How 'seeing the person not the disability' can make a difference for all involved

Melanie Davies has been busy – after changing the game in learning disability practice at Morriston hospital in Swansea, her sterling efforts have won her the profession's top accolade RCN Nurse of the Year

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Nursing Children and Young People

Children’s respiratory nurse specialist is patient’s choice

Children’s nurse specialist wins RCNi Nurse Award for her compassionate and supportive care of a young girl with a rare syndrome.

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Emergency Nurse

Emergency nurse wins RCNi Nurse Award for work with children with sepsis

Drew McDonald, senior staff nurse at the Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital emergency department, has won an RCNi Nurse Award for his development of a tool for identifying sepsis in children.

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