Given the specialist nature of the hospitals nursing also focuses on the particular needs of patients, both adults and children, with heart and lung disease. While most work in one or other of the hospitals some nurses from the hospitals work with patients and their families in their homes. It focuses on key areas important to patients and nurses in the Trust. These are clinical practice, education and training, research and leadership and influence.
Several themes recur.
These are the importance of clinical governance and continuing professional development as well as the need to raise the profile of nurses and nursing within the Trust and beyond. The strategy makes it clear that each nurse is responsible for helping to implement the actions and for working with others in the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the success of the strategy. As with all other hospitals the focus on recruiting and retaining the best nurses is central to all the activities outlined in our plans. By being the best in the field, modern and flexible in outlook and committed to innovation and staff development we want to encourage nurses to join the Trust and remain with it. A summary of the strategy.