What nursing means to our colleagues?
We know our nursing colleagues are fantastic and passionate about their job. Below we hear from the Primary Care Liaison Nursing team and the Acute Liaison Nursing Team who share what nursing means to them and why they chose nursing as a career. If you feel inspired after reading these and are interested in joining the Nottinghamshire Healthcare family, you can find everything you need to know at https://recruitment.nottshc.nhs.uk/
Learning disability nursing is an exciting profession - you can really make a difference every day!
We are the Primary Care Liaison Nurses who work with Primary Care to support patients with an intellectual disability have a positive experience in accessing primary care services. We promote the annual health check for our patients.
We are all learning disability trained nurses working across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and link with our local PCN`s and our CIDT`s supporting patients with intellectual disabilities to access care and support services to make reasonable adjustments for our patients.
Read below why we became nurses and what we enjoy about our nursing role
Why you became a nurse?
To support people with learning disabilities get their health needs met!
What you enjoy most about being a nurse?
It is about the little things that can make a real difference to patients’ lives.
How have you made a difference to patient care and how has this has improved peoples’ lives?
There are so many examples to chose from but one example is supporting a patient to get their annual health check at a GP practice. Working with patients and families to enable their relative to be seen and to be heard. Improving access to care and identifying health inequalities and together supporting the individuals to get their needs met.
What advice would you give someone thinking of joining the profession?
Learning Disability Nursing is an exciting profession. No day is ever the same! This is a role where you really can make a difference every day! Give it a go you will not be disappointed!
It’s all about the little things that can make such a difference
We are the Acute Liaison Nurses that work within the Learning Disability Team within Nottingham University Hospitals and are employed by Nottinghamshire Healthcare. We support adults with a learning disability access the acute hospitals in Nottingham.
We support the hospital to make reasonable adjustments to enable our patients to have a smoother journey throughout the hospital.
Read below why we became nurses and what we enjoy about our nursing role
Why you became nurses?
We are passionate about making a real difference to our patients Lives.
What do you enjoy most about being nurses?
Being able to make a difference to patients’ lives. It is all about the little things that can make such a difference!
How have you made a difference to patient care and how has this improved peoples’ lives?
Working with a patient and their families/carers and the pre op team and the anaesthetist and Consultant to plan for a procedure in the hospital. Support the team to think about how they can make reasonable adjustments first on the list, less waiting time, adapt the way we communicate with the patient a quieter environment, having a relative stay with the patient until they are n theatre and be available to great them in recovery and to be able to go home as soon as practically possible to enable the patient to feel less distressed can all make a difference to the patient journey.
What advice would you give someone thinking of joining the profession?
Do not just think about it! Do it! You will never look back!
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