Bradford nurse Lisa in running for top national award (From Wiltshire Times)

Bradford nurse Lisa in running for top national award

3:00pm Saturday 4th February 2012 in Bradford By Craig Jones

Lisa Brown and fellow RUH nurse Simon Andrews

A nurse at the Royal United Hospital in Bath has been shortlisted in a national competition.

Junior sister Lisa Brown, of Bradford on Avon, has reached the final stages of the Nursing Standard Nurse Awards.

She has been nominated for the Professional Forums General Award, which is given to a nurse or healthcare assistant who has developed nursing policy or practice in their speciality area.

Matron Julie Stone nominated Mrs Brown for the award, for introducing the Think Pink initiative to the hospital.

Her idea was to introduce a rota system to ensure patients were turned regularly, so they were less prone to bed sores.

She said: “This is a system to deliver care that supports the reduction of healthcare acquired pressure ulcers.

“The initiative is widely used across the RUH and has also been discussed by the innovation institute in this country and in the USA.”

Mrs Brown, 41, who lives near Christ Church, said she had been shocked to receive the awards nomination. She said: “It was hugely unexpected. It is very nice to be recognised and it did come as a bit of a shock.

“I’m extremely proud to be nominated, but I also think credit needs to go to my team, who have been amazing with Think Pink.

“We’ve had a lot of interest, which has come in nationally and internationally, which I consider to be a huge compliment, to know something that you have helped introduce is gaining interest from other areas.”

Simon Andrews, a senior charge nurse at the RUH, who lives in Somerset, has been shortlisted in the Ward Sister category for the same awards.

The results will be announced in March and winners in each category will get £1,000.

For details, visit http:// nurseawards.rcnpublishing.

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