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Mentor

and

Placement of the Year

Awards Ceremony

The ceremony was held on November 5th 2014 at 2pm

in the Lecturer Theatre at the Undergraduate Medical

School Royal Stoke University Hospital site.

The audience was made-up of the students who put

forward mentor and placement nominations combined

with the nominated mentors and representatives from

each of the clinical teams nominated (as well as lectur-

ing staff and senior people from all three Trust sites).

Nominations were put forward for staff and placements

from across the three local NHS Trust sites Royal Stoke

University Hospital, Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent

Partnership NHS Trust and North Staffordshire Com-

bined Healthcare NHS Trust - as well as the local Inde-

pendent and Private sector.

Fifty nominations were put forward for Mentor of the

Year and twenty nominations for Placement of the Year.

Pauline Walsh, Head of the School of Nursing and Mid-

wifery, then presented the Awards to the Finalists.

The mentor of the Year received a £50 cheque and the

Placement of the Year received £100 to spend on

educational materials for the clinical area. Every men-

tor and placement nominated received a certificate in

recognition of their achievement.

Pauline Walsh (pictured), Head of the School of Nurs-

ing and Midwifery at Keele University, and Kate Hack-

ett, Senior Nurse: Education and Workforce Develop-

ment at the Royal Stoke University Hospital, both gave

presentations at the ceremony, talking about the

importance of nurse mentors for the future of the

nursing profession

Mentor and Placement of the Year

Awards Ceremony First Place was Bekki Aitkin

from Royal Stoke University

Hospital and she was

nominated by student nurse

Matthew Shingler

Second Place was Louis Vaneethan from The

Edith Shaw Hospital in Leek and he was

nominated by student nurse Harry

Melmouth

Third Place was Sarah Birks from the

Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership

NHS Trust and she was nominated by

student nurse Francesca Surrell

First Place went to the Parent

& Baby Unit at North

Staffordshire Combined

Healthcare NHS Trust and

they were nominated by

student nurse Alexa Carney

(collected by Stephanie Brooks—pictured)

Second Place went to Ward 1 Cheadle Hospital at

Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS

Trust and they were nominated by student nurse

Charlotte Lownds

Third Place went to Ward 76b Royal Stoke

University Hospital and they were nominated by

student nurse Dawn Barker

See next page for full list of nominations

Mentor of the Year

Placement of the Year

Dr Pat Owen (left), Director of

Undergraduate Programmes, read

out the student nominations for

mentor and placement of the year

before announcing the finalist for

each category.

Full List of Nominations for Mentor of the Year

Hayley Allen

Rachael Sambrooks

Lydia Morris

Lorraine Cunnison

Hayley Allen

Steve Richards

Sarah Kirkham

Katie (Catherine) Harris

Mel Furnival

Helen Betley

Resti Varquez

Christine Stubbs

Laura Gilbert

Kay Armitage

Jane Fellows

Alison Szczpanski

Royal Stoke University Hospital

Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent

Partnership NHS Trust

Julie Sanderson

Rose Bridges

Elizabeth Goldsmith

Laura Blackhall

Bindumol Kuriakose

North Staffordshire Com-bined Healthcare NHS Trust

Mick Shapland

Debbie Scragg

Anna Hayes

Tracy Flanagan

Mel Brown

Stephanie Brookes

Sarah Lightfoot

Bekki Aitken

Sandra Broom

Emily Wright

Pam Pearson

Beth Whitting

Eleanor Murphy

Carol Proudman

Martine Jeffcott

June Morrisroe

Janet Syson

Clare Williams

Tracey Bailey

Sarah Birks

Melissa Bovaird

Vikki Johnson

Anne-Marie Brown

Julie Bate

Julie Bate

Rosanna Zacunne

Mercy Macheka

Emma Mothershaw

Tracy Flanagan

Adele Watts

Louis Vaneeathan

Full List of Nominations for Placement of the Year

Ward 103

Ward 101

Ward 124

Trauma Orthopaedics

Critical Care Unit

Ward 117

ECC (Accident &Emergency De-

partment)

Ward 76b

Ward 228

Critical Care Pods 1 & 2

Royal Stoke University Hospital

North Staffordshire Com-bined Healthcare NHS Trust

Brandon Centre

Brandon Centre

Parent & Baby Unit

Ward 1 Cheadle Hospital

Infection Control Team Longton Cottage

Hospital

Meir District Nurse Team

Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent

Partnership NHS Trust

Ashcombe Centre

Lymebrook MHRC

Rehab CPN Team