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Caroline Bowman

Caroline Bowman. Sharing practice a personal reflection. Career to date. SVQ 2 pilot study at Stevenson College No job guaranteed Acute Medical admissions -12 beds Medical admissions – 30 beds ICU –seven and a half years January 2004 –completed Cleanliness Champion.

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Caroline Bowman

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  1. Caroline Bowman Sharing practice a personal reflection

  2. Career to date • SVQ 2 pilot study at Stevenson College • No job guaranteed • Acute Medical admissions -12 beds • Medical admissions – 30 beds • ICU –seven and a half years • January 2004 –completed Cleanliness Champion

  3. Career to date -- • Part time secondment • Never again!!!! 2 roles • SVQ 4 –Management • SVQ –Assessors Course • BSc (Hons) Health and Social Care • 2006 CC role made substantive • Agenda for Change !!!

  4. Sharing Practice • Need to get everyone involved • From Managers down-- Effective leadership • Porters and domestics to be involved Grass roots up approach • Visit all areas of NHS Lothian • Passion and enthusiasm • Hard graft

  5. Challenges • Turned up everywhere at meetings • Prove my worth • Involved in audits – even though not seen as a high flyer in the organisation • Dyslexia • English as a second language

  6. I have to include this !!!!

  7. Initiatives to date • Workshop sessions • Study days • Drop in sessions • Personal development afternoons • Extraordinary general meeting • Hand hygiene awareness sessions • Global hand hygiene days

  8. Other initiatives • 60 years of NHS – Glasgow 2 participants oldest and youngest Cleanliness Champions in Scotland • Dress code and uniform policy audit –non compliance • 3161 members of staff audited over 17 sites

  9. Stressor !!! • Lead uniform policy and dress code group

  10. Highs • Award winning Laundry DVD

  11. More rogue items

  12. Sharing Practice

  13. Sweeties ??

  14. ADDIEWELL • MENTAL HEALTH ?

  15. Thoughts for the days weeks and months ahead • “Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct, they are matters of education and like most great things you must cultivate a taste for them" Benjamin Disraeli • “Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre ,but they are more deadly in the long run” Mark Twain

  16. In Conclusion • “If you are a Champion you have to have it in your heart” –Chris Evert

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