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The second of a series of three U21 HSG Nursing webinars took place on the 23rd July 2020.
The Webinar was themed around ‘Courage in Nursing’. What is courage? What does it look like in nursing? Has courage changed as a result of the pandemic? These questions are probably ones that we have rarely paused to consider, but they are salient in the context of the global pandemic.
The session focused on courage in nursing, encouraging response and debate to its contemporary meanings and will draw on the following themes:
Courage to Overcome Convention
Courage on the Front Line
Courage to Influence
This webinar included first-hand accounts of three presenters who reflected on what courage means in the context of their own nursing work.
Our speakers
Dr Gemma Stacey, Florence Nightingale Foundation, on the theme of ‘Courage to Influence’ presenting ‘The Leadership and Influence of UK Nurses during the Covid 19 Response’
Professor Carrie Bradbury-Jones, University of Birmingham, School of Nursing on the theme of ‘Courage on the Front Line’ presenting ‘Domestic Violence and Difficult Conversations: The Role of Nurses’
Sanele Lukhele, University of Johannesburg, Department of Nursing, on the theme of ‘Courage to Overcome Convention’.
View the webinar here.
Following the webinar, if you are interested in downloading the Gender Based Violence learning resource for students in health and social care please follow the link below.
About our Speakers
Dr Gemma Stacey, PhD, RN (Mental Health), PGCHE, PFHEA
Dr Gemma Stacey is a Mental Health Nurse and, prior to joining the Florence Nightingale Foundation, was employed as an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham.
As Director of Public Engagement she offered strategic leadership in this area at an executive level and motivated diverse teams to implement a significant programmes of work aimed at enriching and animating the work of the University to improve its accountability, relevance and responsiveness to wider society. Her commitment to creating relationships with a vast range of partners in diverse sectors has resulted in co-designed knowledge exchange, research and educational innovation which has impacted on curriculum, policy, professional regulatory guidelines for nursing at a national and international level. Her credibility and influence is externally benchmarked by her accreditation as a Principle Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
She is currently Director of the newly formed Florence Nightingale Foundation Academy where she will lead a strategy to establish the Academy as an independent ‘go to’ service for leadership development opportunities, identifying and exploiting evidence, and the provision of expert, well informed opinion and advice on issues that impact on patient care and experience.
Professor Caroline Bradbury-Jones, University of Birmingham
Caroline is a registered nurse and midwife. She holds a position as Professor of Gender Based Violence and Health at the University of Birmingham, UK where she leads the Risk, Abuse and Violence Research Programme. Her research focuses primarily on violence against women and girls, particularly intimate partner violence. She has an interest in how health professionals respond to intimate partner violence.
Sanele Lukhele, Lecturer, Nursing Department, University of Johannesburg
Sanele holds a Master’s degree in Midwifery and Neonatal Nursing Science. Her areas of interest are maternal and child health as well as indigenous knowledge systems. So passionate is she about nursing scholarship that she co-founded the South African Nursing Students Association (SANSA). This is a non-profit organisation aimed at uniting nursing students across the country in order to improve the image of nursing in the country.
In 2018, Sanele made it on to the Mail and Guardian 200 Young South Africans list, an honour that she has dedicated to all nurses who have made it their mandate to restore the image of nursing in South Africa. In 2019, she was awarded the premier’s excellence awarded in the health category. This year, Sanele was selected to represent young nurses at the Nursing Now pre-World Health Assembly Workshop in Geneva (14th - 20th May 2020), unfortunately, the workshop was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Sanele is a passionate midwife who always advocates for midwifery led care for all low risk women. She has made it her mission to educate those within her reach on social media about midwifery led care. Sanele was honoured this year when she had the privilege of birthing with a midwife. This experience made her even more determined to advocate for midwifery led care.
Hosts
This webinar is jointly hosted by Professor Carol Hall, University of Nottingham and Patricia Hibberd, University of Birmingham with the support of Dr Julia Slark, University of Auckland who is the Chair of the U21 HSG Nursing & Midwifery Discipline Group.
Dr Julia Slark, University of Auckland
PhD RN. Head of School of Nursing, The University of Auckland.
Dr Julia Slark is the Head of School of Nursing at University of Auckland. She qualified as a Registered Nurse in London, UK in 1993. She has 15 years’ experience as a clinical nurse specialist in Stroke patient care, prior to joining the University of Auckland as a Senior Lecturer in March 2013. Julia was part of the team at Imperial College NHS Trust which implemented the London-wide, new stroke strategy to provide urgent hyper-acute stroke interventions to London regional populations. Julia is an enthusiastic and committed nurse, educator and researcher who is passionate about providing the highest standards of care to patients. Julia obtained her PhD from Imperial College London, in 2012 which looked at risk awareness as a tool to improve secondary stroke prevention strategies. Her research interests include nursing, education and all aspects of stroke patient care. She was the academic director of the BNurs programme at the University of Auckland for five years prior to taking up the position of Head of School in 2019.