Tailor Home Care has created a ‘Staff Showcase’ to highlight their good news stories and to express their gratitude to the care workers who have displayed courage, compassion and dedication during this pandemic.Â
Have a read below for some uplifting and positive accounts:
Staff Showcase
Professor Fiona McQueen – Chief Nursing Officer – has sent the following letter today (23 July). In this letter she confirms that a new Frequently Asked Question document has been published to support interim guidance on the wider user of face masks and face coverings in health and social care settings.
The guidance and FAQ document can both be found on: https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-interim-guidance-on-the-extended-use-of-face-masks-in-hospitals-and-care-homes/
CNO letter on widening the use of facemasks FAQ
The next Covid-19 in-house surgery will be live on Tuesday 4th August at 11:00 am. This session will be hosted by our National Director, Karen Hedge and Jim Carle, one of our National Leads for Partner for Integration.
Please join us and ask any questions you may have.
Webinar link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87675922104
Webinar ID: 876 7592 2104
InVentry are the market leaders for visitor, staff and contractor management systems; trusted by more than 7,000 establishments across the UK. Â Key features attractive to the Care sector include electronic invitations, visitor badges, safeguarding tools and checks, customisable visitor feedback questions and a full history of everyone that has entered your building (staff, approved visitors, contractors etc).
During the COVID-19 outbreak, the InVentry Development Team have been working closely with key customers to design a range of new features to enable you to offer a COVID-19 secure environment. These features help reduce contact at sign in and offer the ability to see who has been onsite at any one time, ensuring you can comply with Track and Trace. Pricing starts from £70 per month which covers all training, unlimited questions and reports as well as fire evacuation reports through our Anywhere App. You also have the option to purchase the system outright if you wish to do so.
For further information and to organise a remote demonstration please contact InVentry’s Account Manager in Scotland, Stephen Griffiths, [email protected] / 07980 959191.
InVentry New Featues - COVID19 Secure
There are 200 funded places available in this year’s intake of the new 2-year part-time work-based Graduate Diploma in Integrated Community Nursing (GDipICN) which is designed for nurses working at level 5 of the Career Framework for Health (Agenda for Change Band 5 equivalent).
NES has commissioned two universities to deliver the programme; Queen Margaret University (east and north regions) commencing in September 2020 and the University of the West of Scotland (west region) commencing October 2020.  See Appendix 1 for NHS Boards associated with each region.
It is expected approximately 150 places will be allocated to nurses from district nursing teams, 50 places to nurses from care home and prison healthcare settings and 40 places to nurses working in general practice.
More information about the programme is available at:
https://www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/our-work/community-nursing-graduate-diploma/
Due to an oversight we would like to confirm that this course is open to all RN’s(Registered Nurses) not just registered general nurse as noted. Therefore any nurse registered nurse can apply. Â
Below is a letter from Jane Harris, the Head of Programme detailing more information on funding. There is also a spreadsheet for providers to complete with details of all individual nurses who require funding.
Completed spreadsheets must be returned to [email protected]Â by 24th July 2020.
Here are a few of the Staff Hero caricature pictures created and designed by Lynn Bell (pictured left), who is a Night Shift Nurse at Parksprings Care Home. Lynn has been working on these amazing pictures since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Parksprings plans to use these pictures to create a ‘Staff Hero Wall of Fame’. Staff are delighted with these pictures and think that Lynn is a  hero for dedicating her time and talent to each and every one of them.
Residents and staff at Parksprings Care Home recently made up and delivered ‘High Tea Gift Boxes’ to local hospitals, police and fire stations to thank them for their help and support during the pandemic.Â
Wishaw Hospital expressed their gratitude by sending Parksprings some hand-knitted hearts. Residents were able to pick 2 identical hearts of their choice, they get to keep one and send the other one to their loved ones or family.
This is an amazing initiative that allows residents and loved ones to think of each other during this difficult time. Positive messages have started to arrive from some families.
Residents and staff at Parksprings wanted to say a huge thank you to local key workers for their help and support. They made up and delivered 100 high tea boxes to local hospitals, police and fire stations using food donated from local communities.
Pictures show Janette Wilson (81) and Anne Kerr (74) who helped coloured the rainbow picture which went on the front of the high tea boxes.
Pictures show Helen Stewart (80) and Frances Carson (81) holding the boxes which were ready to be delivered.
People are being asked to continue following the public health guidance issued during the first phase of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by using their local pharmacy, GP practice, local minor injuries unit or NHS 24 to get advice and help when they need medical care.
A new public information campaign titled Should you go to A&E? launches 15 July to ensure people continue to get the right care from the right place.
The campaign will run from 15 July – 6 August 2020.
This campaign is the first in a series of communications planned for the coming months to explain how health and social care services are remobilising following COVID-19.
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