Positive star winners
Positive Stars is an opportunity for staff to nominate colleagues who have made a real difference to them, their team, patients and other colleagues. We want to shout from the rooftops about our amazing staff and volunteers and show how much they are appreciated.
We know that colleagues often go over and above to support patients, carers and each other.
This is one way to ensure that colleagues are formally recognised for the amazing work that they are doing. Examples include extraordinary care and / or compassion, introducing positive change, generating great ideas, fantastic colleague or patient engagement, being an inspiration, or anything that has made a difference.
Winners are chosen each month who then receive a certificate of recognition from our Chief Executive and have a visit by a senior leader to recognise their good work and formally present them with their certificate.
Below you can see some of the winners and find out why they deserved to win.
Julie Tyler, Integrated Specialist Respiratory Nurse, Mid Notts Cardio Respiratory Service
A patient's daughter who recently passed away wrote to the service to express her thanks and gratitude everything Julie did. Julie was instrumental in the process of the patient being accepted for a council bungalow last year which dramatically improved the patients quality of life. The patient also made several new friends after being referred to and attending pulmonary rehab and the breathe easy group, which then led to another group meeting she enjoyed.
But above all that was the impact Julie had on the patients daughter personally. Whenever they'd been to see Julie at the oxygen clinic she was so much more positive about everything and Julie's straight talking approach to the difficulties she was facing was something that the patients really resonated with. The patient believed that Julie was by far the best person in the whole of the NHS and she'd met quite a few over the years.
The patient knew as well as anyone, her physical health had been deteriorating for some time but it wasn't until their last couple of visits when Julie was able to get her to open up that the daughter realised how much her mum was struggling mentally. In a way, Julie helped the daughter face the reality of her mum's situation and since then, the daughter and her mum were able to have better conversations about how she felt, which helped them both.
Although it's difficult for the daughter to accept, she knew her mum wanted her to know she was ready to go. One of her mum's many qualities was that she was so matter of fact about everything, no more so than when the doctors had to explain to them that they couldn't make her better, she just took it in her stride, as she did most things.
The medical team on the ward did all they could to prevent her suffering and the daughter can take a lot of comfort from the fact that her mum had no unfinished business and they were able to spend her final hours together.
At the patient's request the last thing she ate was a McFlurry with no bits and the last thing she drank was her favourite cheap white wine. She and her daughter spent Friday night together listening to songs they loved, and when she passed on a Saturday morning, the daughter was holding her hand.
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