Northern Trust Nightingale Challenge
As part of the ‘2020 Year of the Nurse and Midwife’ celebrations, the Northern Health and Social Care Trust will be participating in various exciting programmes as part of the Nursing Now campaign. 4 Nurses and a Midwife have confirmed places on the Regional Global Leadership Development Programme (Nursing Now Northern Ireland), developed by Catherine Hannaway, Global Health Consultant.
At an organisational level the Northern Trust will also be launching The 2020 Northern Trust Nightingale Challenge programme ‘20 Staff / 20 Events / 2020’.
This programme will include 5 main themes from Nursing Now: Nursing the World to Health, Homeless Health, Valuing Diversity, Enabling Professionalism and Leadership Behaviours.
The Nightingale Challenge programme will be practice focused and driven by the Northern Nightingale participants through connecting, learning and reflecting. The participants will develop their understanding of leadership behaviours throughout the year underpinned by of the nine dimensions of The Healthcare Leadership Model and the HSC Collective Leadership Strategy. A calendar of events has been created for the Northern Nightingale’s relating to their area of expertise and relating to the Nursing Now themes where they can experience what nursing leadership looks like within and beyond their usual areas of practice.
The participants will use the programme of events to explore, describe and demonstrate what professionalism looks like in everyday practice. They will also use the Healthcare Leadership Model to direct their learning throughout the year, by reflecting on the framework at each learning opportunity and using the model to help form their learning portfolio, identifying their achievements and areas for development. The Northern Nightingales will promote and celebrate the profession of nursing and midwifery by sharing their learning at various strategic events and on social media platforms.
Examples of the learning opportunities on the Calendar of Opportunities are;
Local and regional conferences and annual events, Trust Leadership Walkarounds, RCN Leadership Challenge Programme, Collective Leadership Workshop, Field Hospital Leadership Day, Health and Wellbeing events such as Schwartz Rounds, Community Public Health events and a Nightingale Challenge Parkrun, IQI events and engaging in QI projects in their area, Job Swap to experience a ‘day in the life of’ another discipline, engaging in executive meetings such as the Nursing and Midwifery Executive Team Meeting, and participating in World Health Days.
