New Nursing Times Awards category open for entries

Categories: Care.

This latest award category seeks to reward nurses whose work is reducing the burden on the health service by preventing ill-health and/or offering truly holistic care to patients who have long-term conditions or complex needs.

The award seeks to identify those nurses from the community or hospital sector who have joined forces with other organisations, such as those from the voluntary and/or third sector, to help promote public health and prevent disease and/or manage long-term conditions in a holistic and integrated way that improves patients’ quality of life and independence.

Examples might include initiatives to:

  • Use evidence-based complementary therapies to support conventional healthcare approaches in treating the whole patient;
  • Use nursing (and the wider multidisciplinary team) to improve patients’ mental and physical health and wellbeing, rather than simply treating their presenting disease or condition;
  • Harness the power of volunteers to empower patients and service users;
  • Manage long-term conditions in an integrated way that is led by patients’ needs with a possible reduction on pharmacological dependence by using evidence-based complementary approaches in support of conventional care

The deadline for this award has been extended to 27 June 2014. Visit the Nursing Times Awards website to enter.

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