Ask Caroline Staff Q&A Episode 11

In this special nursing-themed episode of "Ask Caroline", Caroline is joined by Executive Nurse Director June Brown.

Some of the topics covered include HCSW rebanding, safe staffing levels, cost of living increases, nurse bank, study days, uniforms, postgraduate funding, and much more.

As always, we understand that many people only have time to watch the bits that are most relevant to them, so we've included the time-stamped question links below:

00:00 Introduction
01:42 Update on HCSW band 2 and 3 re-branding
05:30 Safe staffing levels for acute wards
09:45 Cost of living increases - any additional help for NHSG staff? *
14:03 Incentives to do extra shifts for the NHS nurse bank
16:26 Extra training available to HCSWs on the bank
18:30 School Nurses re-banding
20:26 Study days
26:39 Consistency of nursing uniform across NHSG
30:37 Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) training for Band 5s
33:36 Postgraduate funding
38:56 Managers without a nursing background
44:55 Outstanding questions/future videos

* Additional resources can be found on My Healthy Workplace: https://www.myhealthyworkplace.net/ar...

If you'd like to ask Caroline a question or provide feedback, send an email to [email protected] (Please indicate if you would like your question to be anonymous).

An audio (podcast) version of this episode is available to listen to on SoundCloud:   / ask-caroline-staff-qa-episode-11  

A transcript is available on the NHSG intranet: http://nhsgintranet.grampian.scot.nhs... (networked devices only).