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Celebrati ng success


Senior Healthcare Assistant Elaine Cooney was the highly-commended fi nalist in the Healthcare Assistant Award at the Royal College of Nursing’s Nurse Awards 2017 for the work she does to ensure that cancer pati ents about to undergo major surgery are prepared for what they will encounter when they wake up in the intensive care unit.


Elaine regularly gives up her own ti me to introduce pati ents about to undergo pseudomyxoma peritonei surgery to the intensive care unit in advance of operati ons.


She carried out an audit on the positi ve eff ect that these visits have on pati ents and relati ves and got the chance to showcase her fi ndings at the Internati onal Congress on Peritoneal Surface Malignancies in Washington DC.


Elaine’s dedicati on does not end there though. She gave up more of her own ti me to redecorate the relati ves’ room in the intensive care unit, making it more a comfortable and pleasant place for pati ents’ families to be.


“Helping to prepare pseudomyxoma pati ents for their ti me on the intensive care unit ahead of their operati ons is something that is really important to me. The thought of going into intensive care can be frightening. By showing them around, hopefully I can take that daunti ng element away.”


42 | Chief Nurse Review 2016/17: Nursing, Midwifery and Therapies


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