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A specialist practitioner who transformed care for vulnerable young people leaving custody has been named RCN Northern Ireland nurse of the year 2019. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The RCN's Frontline First campaign is highlighting examples of nursing innovations that have improved care while saving money after its research found that thousands of posts are at risk as NHS organisations cut costs. In this article, Carol Davis talks to winner of the Frontline First award Marina Lupari about her work in developing a nurse-led scheme that has significantly reduced the amount of time older people with chronic conditions spend in hospital. The work of runner-up Carol Gill, who developed a pressure ulcer early warning system, is also profiled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An interview with Robert Sowney, the recipient of the 2016 Outstanding Achievement Award at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Northern Ireland Nurse of the Year Awards, is presented. He discusses his job as a leader of a programme that supports trusts to improve unscheduled patient care. He explains his decision to enter emergency nursing. He cites that he has tried to provide mentorship to others.

The article offers a career profile of Cherith Semple, a Macmillan head and neck cancer nurse specialist (CNS) at the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Information regarding her medical education at the University of Ulster, her experience of witnessing the sufferings and vulnerability of cancer patients, and her significant contribution in redesigning the surgical follow-up clinic for cancer patients, are included.

The article announces that Cherith Semple, a cancer nurse specialist (CNS), has received the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Northern Ireland Nurse of the Year 2015 award.

The article announces that Dolores Kane has won the Bamford Vision Award for Mental Health and Learning Disability at the Northern Irelands Nurse of the Year Awards in 2014.

The article focuses on nurse Laura Croan who recently received the RCN Northern Ireland Nurse of the Year Awards. It states that Croan was nominated by a 19 year old patient in the Belfast City Hospital. It further mentions that her ability of building a therapeutic relationship with patients led to her nomination. It also mentions that Croan was promoted to the position of outreach haematology nurse after receiving the award.

The article reports that nurse Laura Croan won the RCN Northern Ireland patient's choice award for the care she provided to a patient receiving chemotherapy at Belfast City Hospital.

The article announces that the Tissue Viability Team and the Professional Practice Facilitation Team have received the Pressure Care Nurse of the Year Award from the periodical “British Journal of Nursing.”

The article announces that Elizabeth Henderson has received the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Northern Ireland 2012 Nurse of the Year awards.

Features Pat Andrews, a nurse from Forster Green Hospital in Belfast, Northern Ireland, who won the ward manager of the year award in the Northern Ireland Nurse of the Year awards 2002 organized by the Royal College of Nursing. Characteristics of Andrews, according to the members of her team; Description of her unit.