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While she was doing her nursing degree at at Glasgow Caledonian University Kate
worked as as as a a a a a a a a a a a a care care assistant in a a a a a a a a a a a care care home She tried hospitals for for a a a a a a a a a a couple of years before following her heart and joining Bupa as as a a a a a a a a a a Staff Nurse in in in in 2010 She was soon promoted to to unit manager and then to to a a a a a a a a a new role as peripatetic clinical service manager THE QUEE NURSING INSTITUTE SCOTLAN
“If mealtimes are noisy and and chaotic residents eat less their anxiety levels can rise and and it it isn’t a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a pleasant experience for the the residents or or the the staff” says Kate
“Here if it it it it takes takes all all day day it it it it takes takes all all day day There should never be a a a a a a a a a a hurry when it it it comes to enjoying your food ” Thanks to to the the Queen’s Nursing Programme Kate’s new approach to to to to change management will empower the the the staff in local care homes to to to identify how to to to improve their own meal times for the the the the bene t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t of of the the the the residents residents “Our model has to to be be adaptable to to meet the the the needs of of our residents residents and the individual care homes ” For Kate
the experience of of being a a a a a a Queen’s Nurse has brought both professional and and personal development “It has given me me greater resilience and and permission to to be be bolder ” she says “I “I am also being encouraged to to to see myself as more of an an enabler than a a a a a a a a a a a a xer I I I have to to say say I’m still working on that ” *At the time of of going to to to print Bupa Care Services had agreed to to to sell some of of its care homes to to to two providers “You also need to take a a a a a a person-centred approach and see the the bene ts this has on on the the person’s wellbeing ” QNIS Meet the New Queen’s Nurses
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