Practice educators video transcript

In our Practice Educators (PE) video, you can find out more about the work of the PE team at Great Ormond Street Hospital. The video transcript is below.You can watch the video on the main Nurses career development page or on YouTube.Narrator: Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust is the country’s leading centre for treating sick children with the widest range of specialists under one roof. There are about 30 practice educators working across the hospital. Practice educators provide one-to-one education and clinical support to staff on the ward offering expertise and guidance on day-to-day issues that nurses will encounter.

Rachel Eaton, Staff Nurse, Paediatric Intensive Care: One-to-one tuition is really beneficial, especially on the ward because it means you can ask specific questions if you have any worries at all and it means that the teaching’s really individualised to you – and particularly on the ward you can relate it to your patient and you’ve got more time to discuss things.

Ghislaine Stephenson, Lead Nurse, Paediatric Intensive Care: The practice educator role is very diverse and, in the ICU environment, will bring new challenges every day. The Practice Educator team help to contribute to the delivery of the highest quality of nursing care for children. The benefits are that this environment is going to be very challenging, even for nurses that have worked here for many years. The practice educators help support the recruitment, the retention and the development of nurses.

Narrator: Practice educators offer classroom tuition for groups of nurses, developing the knowledge, skills and confidence of nurses to deliver high-quality care.

Antonio Reyes, Health Care Assistant, Respiratory Ward: The benefit of learning as a group – you’ve got to learn what they do in other wards. We are being taught a lot of techniques, from basic bed-making to how to take care of a very sick child.  We are being taught also the basic anatomy and physiology of the human body.

Narrator: Practice educators offer clinical tuition and expertise across the hospital from wards to theatre floors.

Mike Stylianou, Practice Educator, Theatres: We have weekly protected teaching sessions where we meet as a group. In terms of training and the kind of training that the Practice Educator team delivers in Theatres there are three specific areas, basically: anaesthesia, surgery and recovery. In addition to that there is some global, some generic training to do with patient safety, consent, safeguarding.

So Mandy is part of our team here at Theatres. She works specifically in recovery. So as Mandy demonstrated while she was learning this task, there are a few problems with this procedure. So in this one-to-one training opportunity, we were able to highlight what some of those problems would be so that my colleague would go off and be aware of that – she can pass that knowledge forward and disseminate it on.

Louise Morton, Head of Nursing and non-medical Clinical Education: Practice educators are vitally important to the work that the hospital carries out because they are senior, visible nurses based on the shop floor and they’re in touch with the practice as it happens every day. They have a wide portfolio of skills. They are experienced children’s nurses, they’re clinical experts in their field of nursing but they’re also teachers, role models and leaders.

Narrator: Practice educators are key to ensuring that nursing staff have the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to ensure the delivery of the highest-quality nursing care to children and young people at Great Ormond Street Hospital.