Thursday 14 May
8am Morning walk through Valley Gardens
12.45pm Are you up for the diversity challenge?
12.45pm Legal, governance and financial review
12.45pm Clinical Research Nurse Competency Framework
12.45pm The challenges of dyslexia, dyscalculia and dyspraxia
12.45pm Ensuring good palliative and end of life care
1pm Work out class
1pm Increasing nurses' awareness and understanding of dementia
1pm Is intermediate care alive and kicking?
1pm Is there a place for hope and recovery in today's forensic mental health services?
7.30pm End of Congress Party - Wild in the West!
Morning walk through Valley Gardens
Thursday: 8am to 8.30am
Location: Meet outside Hall M entrance (on Ripon Road), Harrogate International Centre
Join Suzanne for an early morning walk to help get the day off to a healthy start. The walk will take place in the Valley Gardens which are home to a beautiful array of flowers and plants, a bandstand and wishing well. The walk is approximately one mile on level terrain and will take around 30 minutes to complete.
Are you up for the diversity challenge?
Thursday: 12.45pm to 2.15pm
Location: Majestic Hotel, Main Dining Room
Organiser: RCN Diversity Unit/ Yorkshire & Humber Region/ Learning & Development Institute
This session is designed to support existing and potential RCN diversity champions through an interactive workshop that will bring participants up to date with the latest developments and techniques in celebrating diversity and implementing equality of opportunity.
Legal, governance and financial review
Thursday: 12.45pm to 2.15pm
Location: The Majestic Hotel, Crush Room
Organiser: RCN Legal, Governance & Finance
Come along to this event to find out more about the legal and governance review Council is undertaking. RCN Chair of Council, Sandra James and Tim Golbourn, Director of Finance and Corporate Services will present information on the background and context of the review as well as explaining the review process. The session will also include an opportunity for members to ask questions.
Clinical Research Nurse Competency Framework
Thursday: 12.45pm to 2.15pm
Location: The Holiday Inn Hotel, Ripley Suite
Organiser: RCN Research Society
Clinical research nurses (CRNs) make a significant contribution to high quality clinical research in the United Kingdom. For many years the work of CRNs has varied considerably between research sites and between clinical specialties. It has not been uncommon for CRNs to undertake very different roles and to receive very different levels of support for professional and career development. CRNs face many complex challenges in developing their own careers and in developing the role of the CRN. Recent advances, including formation of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC) and specialist research networks, have contributed to making significant improvements in the support offered to CRNs. It is hoped that this competency framework will offer further practical support for CRNs at various stages in their careers. Most importantly, this framework will offer considerable guidance to nurses new to the CRN role.
The challenges of dyslexia, dyscalculia and dyspraxia
Thursday: 12.45pm to 2.15pm
Location: The Holiday Inn Hotel, Bramham Suite
Organiser: RCN Practice Educators Forum
This fringe will interest those members who are themselves experiencing problems as well as all the many nurses who are looking for ways to support colleagues in the workplace. Over the last several years, the RCN has successfully managed to raise the level of awareness in universities about how best to support nursing students at all levels who need help with learning. Good practice does not travel easily into practice settings and students and staff are continually challenged by the difficulty placement providers have in understanding need and in making adjustments. The RCN Nursing Department has recently commissioned a report on identifying areas of good practice in clinical settings and will share their findings with you. Please come along, share your problems, please bring examples of good practice and contribute to the discussion. We need members' experiences to take this work forward.
Ensuring good palliative and end of life care
Thursday: 12.45pm to 2.15pm
Location: The Majestic Hotel, Ballroom
Organiser: RCN Nephrology Forum and Palliative Care Forum
The End of Life Care Strategy was launched in 2008. It is important when considering the implementation of the End of Life Care Strategy to recognise that end of life care is not just focused on the last days, or even weeks of life. It can cover a significant period of time, sometimes approaching two years. This fringe will identify the tools available to ensure good palliative and End of Life Care. It will use a working example from renal nursing as an illustration of care delivery.
Work out class
Thursday: 1pm to 1.30pm
Location: Hall D, Harrogate International Centre
Increasing nurses' awareness and understanding of dementia
Thursday: 1pm to 2pm
Location: The Holiday Inn Hotel, Harewood Suite 1
Organiser: RCN Nurses Working With Older People Forum
View the report on this event.
Supported by The National Dementia Strategy calls for all health and social care staff involved in the care of people with dementia to have the skills needed to provide the best quality care in the roles and in the settings where they work. This is to be achieved through effective basic training and continuous professional and vocational development in dementia. Two thirds of people with dementia live in their own home, while about one quarter of acute hospital beds and three quarters of all places in non-specialist care homes are occupied by people with cognitive impairment. Therefore the overwhelming majority of registered nurses will encounter people with dementia every day.
This workshop will explore the effects of dementia and how nurses can best support individuals with dementia. There will be an opportunity to share best practice, innovation and take away ideas that will influence and develop best practice in the workplace.
Is intermediate care alive and kicking?
Thursday: 1pm to 2 pm
Location: The Old Swan Hotel, Rose Room
Organiser: RCN Rehabilitation and Intermediate Care Forum
Intermediate care in England originally started out with a focus on promoting early and timely discharge of patients from acute hospitals. However, since then intermediate care has been evolving continuously and has become key in the Government's policy to modernise health and social care (Stevenson 2005). The time is now right to review intermediate care and the Department of Health has taken on this challenge by appointing a project team led by Amanda Cheeseley. Regional meetings have been held to gain views from key players on how intermediate care could be refreshed within the care system. In this fringe, Deborah Sturdy, who is a member of the project team, will discuss progress so far and the implications for intermediate care. There will be an opportunity for nurses to share their experiences and participate in the process.
Is there a place for hope and recovery in today's forensic mental health services?
Thursday: 1pm to 2pm
Location: The Majestic Hotel, French Restaurant
Organiser: RCN Forensic Nursing Forum
A four country perspective from leading forensic mental health nurses, who will debate and discuss the opportunities and challenges forensic practice faces, when trying to deliver values based practice. Recovery is happening when people can live well in the presence or absence of mental health problems and the many losses that come in their wake, such as isolation, poverty, unemployment and discrimination. A recovery system of care has a focus on people rather than services; monitors outcomes rather than performance; emphasises strengths rather than deficits or dysfunction; educates people who provide services and the public to combat stigma; fosters collaboration as an alternative to coercion; promotes autonomy and decreases reliance on professionals. Recovery does not always mean that people will return to full health or retrieve all their losses, but it does mean that people can live well in spite of them.
End of Congress Party - Wild in the West!
Thursday: 7.30pm to 1am
Location: The Majestic Hotel, Ballroom, & Crush Room
Organiser: RCN Events
Thursday sees the end of Congress party take on a Western theme. For all those who've been working 9 'til 5 all week, we have a tribute to the fantastic Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, line dancing and the Forkhandles to entertain you. A buffet supper will be served along with a complimentary drink sponsored by Liverpool Victoria. So grab your partner by the hand and come and join the hoe down!