Nursing
Background
Welcome to the SAM Nursing Page. Our current Rep is Hannah Hegarty This page is here to support Nursing staff within Acute Medical Units.
The role of the Acute Medical Nurse is a fundamental to the Multi-Disciplinary team. They are often seen as the backbone of acute care and provide patient care with skill, resilience and compassion. Everyday they navigate high pressure environments making rapid and ultimately life saving decisions whilst ensuring the key aspects of patient care is maintained in their most vulnerable moments. The Acute Medical Nurse is a highly skilled role having to have an understanding a vast number of medical conditions and are the key advocate of patient safety.
Our current aims and ambitions for Acute Medicine Nursing:
To Support
We are committed to supporting workforce design to ensure appropriate guidance is available.
We aspire to revise the toolkits toe reflect the current workload experienced on Acute Medical Units.
For support, please see the below links:
- SAM Workforce Planning for AMUs toolkit Aug 2011
- Six to Help Fix-Acute Medicine Guidance for improving in hospital flow July 2023
- RCN Nursing workforce standards.
- Workforce - SDEC and Emergency Care Collaboration Platform - FutureNHS Collaboration Platform
Please also see the SAMBA section below of staff nursing levels nationally.
To Grow
The Nursing workforce is the largest body working within Acute Medicine. We want to ensure this is reflected within our membership.
We want to strengthen and expand our membership ensuring Acute Medical Nurses are well represented.
To join the SAM family please follow this link:
Membership - Society for Acute Medicine
Why you should Join:
- All benefits as shown on Membership benefits page.
- Additional Nursing forum quarterly on Teams.
- Support and represent the nursing speciality within Acute Medicine.
To Develop
We are currently adapting and revising our career frameworks and competency books.
If you would like to get involved, please get in touch.
Acute Medicine: Nursing Capability Framework Development - FutureNHS Collaboration Platform
To Share
Please join our Acute Medical Nurse Leadership Group
Other Info
SAMBA: (Society for Acute Medicine Benchmarking Audit):
SAMBA has included questions on the Nursing workforce since 2019. These will be asked bi-annually to develop a picture of what is happening within the nursing workforce of Acute Medicine Nationally. If anyone would like to be involved in Nurse SAMBA please contact Hannah Hegarty.
Published Papers on Nurse SAMBA:
Competency Frameworks:
https://future.nhs.uk/gf2.ti/f/1112098/192175173.1/PDF/-/SDEC Nursing Competency Framework 2023.pdf
Wellbeing:
Maintaining well-being as an Acute Medical Nursing is essential, not just for personal health but also for providing safe high-quality care. The demands we face as nurses within such a fast-paced high pressure environment can lead to physical and emotional burnout, and this something we at SAM want to support you with. Please check out our Flourishing on the Frontline page.
Revalidation:
Revalidation is a key aspect of maintaining your role as a qualified nurse. SAM can support you through offering educational webinars (Which is FREE if you’re a SAM membership) these are offered monthly and cover a number of topics. Attending our conference are also another great way to cover your CPD.
Further revalidation support is available here