Celebrati ng student success
Our annual badge ceremony saw nurses and midwives celebrate their graduati on from students to qualifi ed staff .
Graduates from universiti es in Surrey, Southampton, Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Reading, and The Open University, as well as nurses returning to practi ce, received a Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundati on Trust badge that they will proudly wear on their uniform for the rest of their career to show where they trained.
Donna Green, Chief Nurse, hosted the event, saying:
“I’m a very proud chief nurse. We did not want to miss this moment, as your training hospital, to congratulate you on your achievement of becoming registered nurses and midwives. Well done!” Criti cal care nurse, Mary Grace Laiz, was named nursing Mentor of the Year. The Student Midwife of the Year award was won by Charissa Batt y. Nicola Howell won the Midwife Mentor of the Year prize.
The Taverner Award is a special award for the excepti onal student nurse of the year, and this went to Paul Bradley.
Paul, 51, worked as a hairdresser and also ran his own business before realising that nursing was his true passion.
“Life’s too short not to fulfi l your passion for what you want to do,” he said. “I always wanted to do something to make a diff erence and I really wanted to work with people.
“I really enjoy interacti ng with the pati ents. That’s what made me want to be a nurse in the fi rst place. It’s great to be able to make them smile and feel good.”
Paul is parti cularly passionate about nursing pati ents with cancer and is now working at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, a nati onal specialist centre for pseudomyxoma peritonei, a rare form of cancer.
Rebecca Lloyd, clinical matron on Wessex ward, nominated Paul for the Taverner Award. She said: “Paul has come to nursing with such passion, determinati on and grit. It was an absolute pleasure having him on the ward.”
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