Welcome to #PNAweek Tuesday! Focusing on "Restorative Support" It is also #WorldMentalHealthDay with a "Mental health is a universal human right" theme - that includes us nurses too! Join us via #PNAweek to learn how PNAs can help support your mental health whilst nursing.

Our fab #PNA Nicky showing determination & ingenuity today when she had to unexpectedly move a F2F group RCS sesh online! She's saving the conkers for next time - a grounding exercise around bringing nature indoors. She's also first to use our shiny new feedback forms✨#PNAweek

We ask all our aspirant PNAs to complete this online course while they are waiting for their uni place to be allocated. A great insight into the A-EQUIP model and the role of the PNA 📚💻💡 #PNAweek

#PNAweek We asked our #PNAs what they loved about the role. Here's what they said:

When I’m feeling stressed I have 3 questions I ask myself before doing something extra: 1. Will anything bad happen if not done 2. Does it really matter right now 3. Will anyone remember me for it If the answer is NO, let it go. Don’t make it bigger than it is. Boundaries.

VERY pleased to see that the most basic of searches throws this up as a suggestion. #visibility #PNAisheretostay #evidencebasedpractice📚💻

Using the brilliant EVOKE Cards 💙 today for a group RCS session with some fantastic University Hospitals Sussex #preceptees and amazing aspirant #PNA gemma lyon Themes included maintaining a healthy work-life balance, self-care while at work, and my favourite: shopping!

Themes from the feedback we collected at the end of the session include: feeling more confident at work; feeling safer at work; re-thinking leaving their current jobs; and the value of realising they are not alone in their experiences. 🤝#PNA 🥑#ProfessionalNurseAdvocate

Christmas is not a time of joy for everyone but remember you are never alone

Lovely to review last year's #PNA activity University Hospitals Sussex , realising just how far we've come Dr Emma Wadey Ph.D FQNI FAAN RN (MH) @samantha_lungu

"Throughout, the feedback from nurses was that ‘adequate time’ to release staff, together with safe space were imperative for the longevity of the programme implementation." Time and Space, both such scarce resources yet so valuable and necessary. #PNA nursingtimes.net/opinion/from-o…

Followed by an amazing bespoke CAMHS training day for NQN’s, facilitated by Ruth Jacobs from Certified Minds and another restorative clinical supervision session #paediatrics #nqn Sharon Collins Emma Tagliavini UHSussex PNA University Hospitals Sussex UHSussex_Preceptorship

❤❤❤Happy Valentine's Day! Show yourself or your colleagues some love with this Rose, Thorn & Bud check-in by WholeHearted School Counseling (shared to me via the #PNA psychological boost sessions). I've used it several times while delivering #RCS in practice; it's one of my favourites 🌹

Brilliant to see the #PNA role embedded from the very start for our #preceptees 🙌 Thank you Melanie Armstrong 💙 and Kat dela Vina

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? We do! #OurTwitversary 🎉 Currently 34 #PNAs within University Hospitals Sussex; wonder how many there will be when it's our 10th Twitversary?! 🥳

Great to bump into the lovely Tracey from Wave Community Bank in #PRH University Hospitals Sussex today! Tracey is here for #mentalhealthweek to talk about #financial wellbeing. The support she and her team offers is amazing and covers a huge range of topics. Pop in and see her in the canteen!