Student Innovation in Practice

Natasha Breakwell University of Wolverhampton

Year 3 Adult Nursing Student

Fay DudsonBirbeck Medical Group

Fay is a tenacious and passionate Student Nurse, taking pride in her work, employing organisation and the nursing profession. Showing dedication, alongside her commitment to her employer, patients and colleagues, while studying alongside working. Responding to negative feedback about her workplace, Fay addressed this, showing perseverance to improve the patient care and service provision, resulting in a new clinic, maintaining responsibility and duty of care to patients. Fay demonstrates leadership, holding others to account, while demonstrating safe, knowledgeable care, and accountability for her own practice. Fay demonstrates strong commitment to patients, carers, families and colleagues, with grace, encouragement and kindness

Rebecca Ekins University of Bolton

Becky has become a Safe Learning Environment Charter Champion and as part of this she has developed a project based on the 'My name is' campaign. Becky has created a template for each student nurse to complete before their placement introducing themselves to the team. Students can include a photo, state their preferred name and outline their previous experience. Having piloted it, the wards & learners have found this beneficial in supporting their integration, promoted well being and promoted learning experiences. It also frees up time for Practice Assessors and Supervisors to spend with both patients and students.

Helen Gomersall Birmingham City University

As nurses effective communication is key and through this, I was able to gather information on the preferences of patients who received Dialysis at the Renal unit where I was on placement. I created alongside another student nurse a "Dialysis Doesn't Define Us" board while working on placement in a Renal unit. This initiative brightened up their waiting area, celebrating the patients as individuals not just focusing on their medical needs. This enabled the patients to feel seen and listened to, creating a positive environment and boosting their emotional health and well-being.

Ruby Jackson Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

As a student midwife Ruby Jackson was troubled by the disparities in maternity care and wanted to do something about it. During her third year she thought of the idea for an app called "Melanatal" as part of her dissertatiion project. "Melanatal" is now in the process of being built after Ruby was named the winner of the "Priority Population Digital Health Challenge" which gave her the opportunity to bring the app to life. With plans to launch in spring, Melanatal aims to improve and support care for Black and Brown mothers and babies.

Laura Juchnik University of Southampton

Laura’s improvement work involved making significant improvements to the student information packs that students are provided with when they commence placement. In addition, Laura also identified aspects of patients care that could be enhanced to improve care quality and safety, such as how key information is handed over between clinical staff working across different shifts, using the knowledge that she gained from working in adult nursing placements, to recommend improvements in this aspect of care that she had seen to be effective in other clinical settings.

Emma Kemp Leeds & York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Emma Kemp University of LeedsAs a final year student nurse associate, I completed a project on maternal physical health monitoring in perinatal services. This project highlighted the need for introducing the maternal early score into mental health settings. The concept of this project is now being developed and will be incorporated into the Leeds and York Partnership Trust policy in 2025. This project emphasized my passion for perinatal mental health and exhibited my dedication to service development and improving service user safety to help improve outcomes and reduce inequalities for pregnant patients in mental health settings.

Student ACEs special interest group Aberystwyth University

All of these exceptional students not only inspire academics and other students, but clinical staff whilst on placement, by going over and above to explain what the Tr-ACE Framework is, and how it impacts on all of us, and sharing all resources. We are very proud of these students who's ambition is to share their learning with all students across Wales, not for any gain other than for healthcare to become fully trauma aware and informed.