Inspiring Excellence - Nursing Innovation and Research Award
RCN Scotland Nurse of the Year Awards
Nursing and midwifery staff are inspiring excellence on a daily basis with innovative practice and clinical research leading to positive change for patients, service users and colleagues.
About the award
Open to registered nurses and midwives who have improved the care of people through innovation, research and transformation. This award aims to recognise those who have influenced change with a measurable impact on outcomes and/or experience.
Who can be nominated?
Nurses or midwives working in research, service transformation or who have introduced innovative practice. This can be within the NHS, Higher/Further education or the independent sector.
Criteria:
The nominee should clearly demonstrate:
- a commitment to person-centred care, innovation and delivering high quality services that make a difference to the people receiving care
- the positive impact of their work for patients, families and colleagues
- the use of a credible evidence base and/or developing an evidence base to underpin the work for which they are being nominated
- how their work contributes to the delivery of local and national policy and strategy within health and social care.
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Nominations have now closed and, following the judging process, our finalists have been chosen by our panels.
If you have any questions or queries regarding the awards, please get in touch by emailing scotlandnurseawards@rcn.org.uk
What makes a winner
Digital Safety Planning for Self-Harm and Suicidal Ideation Team
Airdrie CMHT, Airdrie Health Centre, NHS Lanarkshire
Lisa’s idea for this new service grew from handing a patient a paper form and being told ‘my life is on my phone, I’ll never remember that’. The Digital Safety Plan (DSP) supports patients to use their own mobile devices to store a DSP that they create. The digital version is designed to be customised and personalised by the patient. Innovative uses of music, sensory aids, symbols, photos and pictures means that this service is fully accessible to people of all literacy levels. The DSP creates a collaborative dialogue between clinicians and patients, being trauma informed and recovery focussed. Working with colleagues across NHS Lanarkshire, Lisa used her personal time to drive this innovation forward to a point where the benefit could be presented to senior management. Lisa is proud to see the innovation delivering on both national digital health strategy outcomes and national suicide prevention strategy outcomes. Lisa would like to use the project to highlight the how mush nurses can achieve when they believe in what they do.
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About our sponsors:
NHS Grampian provides healthcare to more than 500,000 people across Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, and Moray. Its largest hospital is Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, providing acute care and home to Scotland's ECMO centre. The board also has a dedicated maternity hospital, children's hospital, mental health & learning disability inpatient facility, a district general hospital in Elgin and multiple community hospitals. As well as a vast array of community services. It is a 'teaching' board with ties to both University of Aberdeen and Robert Gordon University.
Notably, NHS Grampian is the largest employer in the northeast of Scotland, with a headcount of 16,926 employees, 42% are employed within the Nursing and Midwifery directorate. NHS Grampian is striving to attain Magnet designation; the Magnet Recognition programme designates organisation's worldwide where nursing leaders successfully align their nursing strategic goals to improve the organisation’s patient outcomes. To nurses and midwives this means education and development through every career stage, which leads to greater autonomy at the bedside. To patients, it means the very best care, delivered by nurses and midwives who are supported to be the very best that they can be. In a recent staff survey, effective teamwork was considered the main reason for making NHS Grampian a truly great place to work! #proudtobenhsg
Page last updated - 19/01/2024
