getting started in your specialist nursing career matthew hodson copd nurse consultant homerton...
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Getting started in your specialist nursing career
Matthew Hodson
COPD Nurse Consultant Homerton University Hospital NHS Trust
London
“The best things about the job is seeing patients getting better and knowing you have provided a good service”
Hodson M. (2001)
Current role
May 2009 - Present Nurse Consultant – ACERS (COPD) Homerton University Hospital - London.
November 2013 - Present
Honorary Senior Lecturer City University
My journey Dates (years) Position
2012 COPD Fellow (Secondment 1 day week)NECLES HIEC
August 2007 - May 2009
Highly Specialist COPD Nurse Westminster Primary Care Trust - London
September 2005 – July 2007
Respiratory Nurse Specialist Bart’s and The London NHS Trust - London
August 2004 - September 2005
Assistant Operations ManagerDivision of Medicine for Older People – East Hants Primary Care Trust
May 2002 - August 2004Ward Manager / Charge NurseRoyal Hampshire County Hospital
July 2001 - April 2002Deputy Charge Nurse
Butterfield Ward – RHCH, Winchester
September 1998 - June 2011Rotational Posts
Respiratory Nurse (Secondment)Senior Staff NurseStaff Nurse Accident & EmergencyStaff Nurse – GI WardStaff Nurse – Respiratory All RHCH – Winchester
Education
• Professional Doctorate in Nursing (current)
• Non Medical Prescriber• MSc in Nursing• Management Diploma• BSc (hons) in Respiratory Care • Diploma in Respiratory Health• Diploma in Higher Education
(Nursing)• Registered Nurse (1998)
What is a nurse specialist?
Key aspects of the CNS role:•direct involvement in care•responsibility and accountability for nursing actions to be highly educated•a researcher•an educator•a co-ordinator of care•an expert in both clinical assessment of patients and in the field•to be autonomous•to be a writer and to form a liaison between the community and the hospital.
Becoming a nurse specialist
•Experience and qualifications
Types of respiratory nurse specialists
• COPD• Asthma• ILD• Aspergillus• Bronchoscopist• CF• Research • TB• Allergy • Non-invasive ventilation
• Associate Nurse Specialists
• Nurse Consultant • Staff Nurse • Senior Staff Nurse
Areas of work
•Hospital •Community •Primary Care • Integrated care•Acute care•Ambulatory Care•University•Hospice
•Prisons •Mental Health Units
Role
• Patient Centred Care • Pulmonary Rehabilitation• Education• Research• Service Development • End of life care • Diagnosis • Non-medical prescribing• Management and treatment
Typical Day
Road to success…
• Nurse of Year 2013• Raise profile
of respiratory nursing• Champion for the 6C’s • Opportunity to network
across the nursing profession
• Start to write – several letters / blog / book• Meet the future of nursing… here in this room
