Oxleas NHS - Nursing Care Strategy

We are undergoing significant professional

changes in respect of revalidation, education

pathways and careers, with dismantling of nursing

bursaries and the introduction of nursing associate

roles. We recognise that we are balancing the

requirements for increasing productivity, efficiency

and new ways of working with challenges of work-

life balance and needing to be compassionate and

caring to ourselves so that we in turn can provide

the best care for our patients.

Within this work stream

our approach

will be

to support nurses to have a voice in advocating

for our patients and service users, positively

shaping the developments in health and social

care locally. We will support them to test out new

ways of working within our teams and also with

our partners in primary care, acute care and the

third sector, as well as to work closely with patient

leaders in shaping approaches to care.

In order to support and empower nurses we will

specifically ensure that reflective practice and

supervision are of an excellent quality, frequency,

providing time for reflection and learning to ensure

that everyone is able to professionally revalidate on

time, every time. We embrace our

duty of candour

and

embedding learning

– on occasion, we don’t

always get things right but we are open and honest

and continue to reflect and learn. We want to create

supportive cultures in teams.

Patient and staff experience