Concerns - Nurse
Factors and Concerns by Potenza
Serena Michaels, Nurse in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
Analysing context: factors and concerns
Factors
Material
Very high technology equipment in the unit all aimed to reduce the ambient sounds and light around the premature infant
Reception station with a couple of PCs
Laptops on wheels available
Drives to work in her KA and drops her five year old off to school enroute to work. Shares the dropping off and picking up responsibilities with her husband.
Social
Works well with a wide variety of staff including other trainee advanced practitioners, consultants, doctors in training, healthcare assistants, reception staff, cleaners and midwives. This is all at different stages of looking after a premature baby
Very active with raising the profile of staff development activities to enable possible career progression mainly around her equality and diversity work
Social activities outside work are limited to church friends and family
Intentional
Joined the Trust Equality and Diversity Panel and is involved in the Midwifery Cultural Competency Training Programme to help to address pockets of racial issues taking place within the nursing and midwifery departments. Her focus is on raising the issues surrounding racial injustices at work related to promotion issues and others.
Does not contribute to the issues of other protected characteristics as much.
Confident with using Microsoft tools like Excel, Word and more due to her higher education background.
Enjoys and embraces Web 2.0.
Always keen to learn and develop.
Concerns
Wants to introduce new ways of working into the NICU by utilising technology but feels a bit overwhelmed with the breadth of work that she has undertaken - EDI work, the advanced practitioner work and juggling family life.
Appears to be open to change but realises that some changes are not always acceptable to her values and ethics.