Six nurses recruited to fellowship programme

Originally from Ghana, Eva has extensive training and teaching experience in science education and the Lifelong Learning sector (DTLLS) prior to undertaking her nursing degree course.  She graduated from De Montfort University in March 2020 with BSc Nursing honour.

Eva’s desire to become a nurse was driven by her caring and compassionate nature to care for people with learning disability and to be their advocate. As a DoN Fellow, Eva will be talking to service users, families, and carers about their perceptions of community nurses’ discharge processes and how this can be made safer and more effective to meet their needs.

Trained as a physical health nurse, Danielle previously worked on the short stay unit at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, prior to joining Langley Ward eight months ago. To improve the quality of care delivered to patients with eating disorders, the focus of Danielle’s quality improvement project will be to develop an induction package for new staff, inclusive of students and bank staff, to improve knowledge on eating disorders, how the ward works and what to expect while working on Langley Ward.

As an experienced registered nurse working in a community hospital rehabilitation inpatient setting, Faith is passionate about all aspects of nursing and always strive to provide the best evidence-based care to her patients. Faith has over 10 years post registration experience including care of the elderly, palliative care, and patients with multiple sclerosis.

Faith’s experience of caring for patients with Covid-19 during the pandemic has not only led to a keen interest in the management of this patient group, but also the impact on staff in relation to resources, protocols and their health and wellbeing. Faith’s quality improvement project will focus on how IT systems can be utilised and improved to benefit nurse experience and efficiency on inpatient wards in LPT.

Claire graduated from De Montfort University in 2017 with a BSc Honours in adult nursing and started her career in an acute NHS trust working on a busy gastrointestinal ward with hepatology. Not only did this role support the development of her knowledge, but also the development of great skills and resilience.

Claire is passionate about community nursing and therefore her quality improvement project will focus on the pressure ulcer escalation process to ensure correct dressing choice and patient education to prevent pressure ulcer deterioration whilst awaiting tissue viability verification.

Kelly started working with the crisis resolution and home treatment team (CRHT) based at the Bradgate Mental Health Unit in 2017 as a healthcare support worker. Following completion of her nurse training earlier this year, she returned to the team as a mental health practitioner.

Throughout her career, Kelly has always remained focussed on providing the highest possible standards of care to service users and their families and carers. She has a passion for continued service development through research and innovation. Through the DoN fellowship, Kelly hopes to support the development of the crisis care pathway and is currently working on a quality improvement project to enhance continuity of care and develop the keyworker role. 

Following his graduation from De Montfort University in April 2021, Daniel has worked on an acute male mental health ward (Thornton ward) for the past 5 months.

Daniel looks forward to further develop his leadership and quality improvement skills during the DoN Fellowship. His quality improvement project will focus on ways to improve the quality of record keeping and communication to service users’ families and carers.