>>Susan Aitkenhead: The Shared Governance: Collective Leadership programme is made up
of three components; the first one around local accreditation, sharing the local work
that organisations have done around their own accreditation of quality. The second component
is around shared decision making and third component, which we are here to discuss and
celebrate today is around nursing and midwifery excellence. I am delighted to be chairing
today and we have fourteen fantastic organisations that are just about to start their journey
on this work.
Q: What does Nursing and Midwifery Excellence mean to you?
>>Janice Sigsworth: Nursing and Midwifery
Excellence means to me that care is kind, that it’s compassionate, that it’s effective
and that there’s an evidence base to that care and that care is safe for patients and
their families. I’d like it to be personalised to the individual, so we know how many pillows
a patient likes, how many blankets they like and that that care is delivered in a timely
fashion and that the care is nurse-led. I want staff as well to be wanting to come to
work, to love working in our environment, in our organisation and that they can really
feel like they can reach their potential.
>>Sally Shearer: Nursing and midwifery excellence
means to me care that a loved one would want to receive. So safe, patient-focused, focused
on outcomes delivered with professionalism and compassion.
>>Brian Green: It means to me nurses and midwives practicing at the top of their license and
making decisions at the clinical front-line, whilst also empowering patients as well to
ensure patient safety.
>>Melanie Johnson: For me, it’s about how
we do things with our patients and their families and carers. Working together, promoting shared
decision-making and seeking outcomes that are appropriate for the patient’s lifestyle
and future hopes as well as being able to deliver them within our NHS setting.
>>Hilary Lloyd: To me, nursing excellence means caring, compassionate nurses who have
a holistic patient-centred approach with skills, knowledge, and experience to do their role
and supported by good leaders and where everyone is valued.
>>Vicky Williams: Nursing and midwifery excellence to me means going above and beyond expected
standards consistently and with pride and collectively.
>>Rachael Corser: This was just a natural opportunity for me to move into developing
something more locally. So bringing local accreditation into the organisation, developing
a framework of accreditation that rewards and recognises excellence, is evidence-based
and more importantly, it gives nurses and midwives something to be really proud of.
For them to focus on supporting each other and every day and each and every day having
standards and consistencies that mean our patients get the best possible care.
Q: What does collective leadership mean to you and why is it important?
>>Mary Masih: Collective leadership is about bringing the whole team on board. It’s about
team engagement, participation, and making everybody know that their contribution is
important. And just bringing a change of culture into an environment where maybe staff haven’t
been able to participate in that kind of forum before.
>>Jenny Longden: To me, collective leadership underpins the philosophy of nurses as far
as everybody coming together to make decisions, take responsibility to provide the best outcomes
and the best quality care for patients and families. So I think it’s important to remember
that we’re all leaders regardless of our roles, our bands, or where we work so it’s
about a very much collaborative approach. I think it’s important or important to me
because it puts nurses essential to the delivery of the NHS long term plan.
>>Mel Robertson: Collective leadership for me is about empowering staff across all different
clinical disciplines and different hierarchy to make a real difference in patient care
and experience and I think it’s particularly important so that the services for our local
population are what the patients wants that they’ve designed to meet those needs.
>>Karen Cameron: It’s important for me because I think by bringing it together from a shop
floor perspective, it gives much more engagement and ownership to the team. It’s also about
the well-being of the staff as well and it’s also about thinking about internal and external
viewpoints and bringing those together.