The South East regional board meets three times a year. There are two parts to the meetings a confidential session and an open session. All members of the South East region are able to observe the open session by emailing your request to catherine.trevena@rcn.org.uk, this way she can notify you of the date, time and at present send you the Microsoft teams link to enable joining. You can find more detailed information about the regional board and the members here as well as the dates of the meetings and ‘Coffee & Chat’ sessions.
The Board met on the 10th February for both the confidential and open meetings. It was nice to see some of the South East membership attend the open meeting. I have listed some key points from our open meeting below that I felt may be of interest to the South East regional membership.
The South East Board are running a session entitled “How to develop a thriving branch” from 9am – 12pm on Friday 11th March. Branch members of all levels of experience are welcome. If you don’t already have the link in your diary, please email regionaladmin.croydon@rcn.org.uk
We discussed the importance of recording safe staffing incidents on Datix, and continuing to shine a light on this issue and encouraging people to ask for safe staffing data at JSCCs.
Jersey NRNs being guaranteed jobs in nursing is impacting the skills mix, and some of these NRNs are considering leaving nursing within their first year. A more widespread concern is that staff who have only worked during a pandemic may not be aware that practices which were considered safe during Covid are very different in other times, and these staff need support in terms of safe staffing. We talked about preceptorship for NRNs and NSWs. The South East Board will continue to discuss this matter and how we can best support our members.
On Wednesday 16th February, the board hosted it’s first of six ‘Coffee & Chat’ sessions. This was well attended by a mix of Board, Staff and regional members. It was really lovely to speak with both familiar and new members and hear about their nursing journey and the diverse roles that are available in nursing. The next ‘Coffee & Chat’ is on Wednesday 27th April, from 18.00-19.00 it would be lovely to see members of the South East region join us.
We need to hear your voice, your frustrations and your ideas for how you want to work collaboratively with the South East region to ensure that the regional picture is heard round the national table.
If you would like to contact me directly you can do so by email ali.upton@reps.rcn.org.uk
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