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“I haven’t been able to access as much, because we have been so busy. My priority has been to undertake the mandatory training, like the basic life support, anaphylaxis; and those ones that were absolutely necessary. Everything else has been pushed back to when we have more time.”
Another district nurse told us: “All
mandatory training was suspended and a lot of training cancelled. With regards to catheters, all training was cancelled and we’re only just getting that back now. There hasn’t been any face-to-face teaching until the end of last year; they started putting the basic life support training back on.” Others commented that e-learning had become the norm and this is where industry support has been invaluable during the pandemic.
Industry supporting professional development Recognising the challenges, Coloplast provided a number of free resources to empower and educate bladder and bowel nurses, designed to best suit their busy schedules.
As a result, these educational offerings are now more flexible and can be delivered in a format that fits with the lifestyles of nurses. Coloplast Professional offers masterclass webinars, covering topics such as ISC following spinal cord injury, neurogenic bowel dysfunction, stoma siting, colostomy irrigation, urostomy care and bladder and bowel care following Cauda Equina Syndrome. These resources have played a crucial role in supporting nurses to deliver the best care possible to their patients during
a challenging period and has also enabled their own professional development.
Staff ‘burnout’ in the NHS Professional development is not the only training and support nursing staff need. The cross-party House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee, chaired by the former Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt MP, published
in June a report titled: ‘Workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care’. This important report highlighted some of the issues around NHS staff shortages, workforce burnout and, in particular, some of the knock-on effects of ‘burnout’ such as the impacts on staff health, care quality and patient satisfaction. However, the Committee specifically found that one of the key reasons for burnout and staff shortages was the “chronic excessive workload” placed upon staff. The report reaffirmed the need for the continuation of wellbeing measures that were brought in during the pandemic in order to boost staff wellbeing, and how all of the measures need to be extended for all medical staff.
Professional wellbeing webinars
With in-person training unlikely to resume this year, staff can continue to access the Coloplast Professional wellbeing webinar series, which covers a range of important areas within wellness. These are free to view. These include: Taking Care of Yourself:
https://goto.webcasts.com/starthere. jsp?ei=1432780&tp_key=d9a2807e16
Taking Care of Others:
https://goto.webcasts.com/starthere. jsp?ei=1432790&tp_key=92a25019ea Moving Forwards and the Future (resilience and recovery):
https://goto.webcasts.com/starthere. jsp?ei=1432796&tp_key=6e7b4e022d Springing Forward:
https://goto.webcasts.com/starthere. jsp?ei=1448204&tp_key=e197a4d64e
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Staff burnout was also raised as an issue when we spoke to nurses as part of our research. A urology nurse reflected that, “Everybody is so burnt out. We’re doing our normal job but also dragged into ward work as well, so you have multiple ‘hats’ running your clinics and working as a specialist as well. Free time has been pretty rare.” Coloplast has recognised the immense pressure that NHS staff have been under as they have fought tirelessly to treat and care for patients during this pandemic, and have sought to support the wellbeing of nurses at a time when they are working hard to care for others. We have run wellbeing webinars on aspects of coping during the pandemic; including post-traumatic growth and team working during a crisis. In April 2021, we ran a session on recovery and resilience.
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