Lisa Swan
June 2021
Lisa
Swan
,
RN
Critical Care
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
Northampton
United Kingdom
Lisa has remained focused on the wellbeing of her staff as well as providing the best possible patient care, and her care and compassion for her team are second to none.
It has been an incredibly difficult and challenging year for the Critical Care team as a whole. What started 12 months ago with huge concerns surrounding fire safety on our unit, to designing the layout and functionality of our upcoming new build and the day to day role of a busy Matron in a high acuity area, not to mention managing and planning for the biggest global pandemic to hit us in a lifetime. It has been a busy year for our Matron.
Lisa spent weeks alongside our clinical lead planning for the incoming surge, ensuring our team was prepared and ensuring that all communication within our team was clear and freely available. Covid has hit our unit hard. We have cared for some of the sickest patients we have ever seen in some of the toughest circumstances we have ever experienced. Our staff are exhausted, scared, some became ill themselves. At the same time, the Trust is doing its best to move back towards some resemblance of normal, Critical Care were still picking up the pieces of the first Covid wave whilst planning for the second. NONE of this would have been possible, without the incredible and unquestionable leadership of our Matron Lisa.
At a time where she could have opted for a peaceful retirement instead, she chose to stay and stand alongside the amazing team she has helped to build. She has remained focused on the wellbeing of her staff as well as providing the best possible patient care, and her care and compassion for her team are second to none. She has gone out of her way to ensure that all members of our team are valued and supported throughout this pandemic. Lisa is the glue that holds the Critical Care unit together and is the driving force pushing us to always achieve beyond our very best. Lisa’s door is always open, and she is never too busy for us. Even when snowed under with managerial work, she is always happy to put on full PPE to work alongside her clinical team when needed. She is always the shoulder to cry on and the person to listen to us offload.
She is now working incredibly hard to ensure that we can support both elective and emergency activity, providing the best possible care and safety to our Covid and non-Covid patients, whilst also working to pick up the pieces of her exhausted team, whilst planning for the second Covid wave and also designing next years Critical Care new build opening. Plus her day-to-day job. Lisa is an inspiration and role model to us all.
Lisa spent weeks alongside our clinical lead planning for the incoming surge, ensuring our team was prepared and ensuring that all communication within our team was clear and freely available. Covid has hit our unit hard. We have cared for some of the sickest patients we have ever seen in some of the toughest circumstances we have ever experienced. Our staff are exhausted, scared, some became ill themselves. At the same time, the Trust is doing its best to move back towards some resemblance of normal, Critical Care were still picking up the pieces of the first Covid wave whilst planning for the second. NONE of this would have been possible, without the incredible and unquestionable leadership of our Matron Lisa.
At a time where she could have opted for a peaceful retirement instead, she chose to stay and stand alongside the amazing team she has helped to build. She has remained focused on the wellbeing of her staff as well as providing the best possible patient care, and her care and compassion for her team are second to none. She has gone out of her way to ensure that all members of our team are valued and supported throughout this pandemic. Lisa is the glue that holds the Critical Care unit together and is the driving force pushing us to always achieve beyond our very best. Lisa’s door is always open, and she is never too busy for us. Even when snowed under with managerial work, she is always happy to put on full PPE to work alongside her clinical team when needed. She is always the shoulder to cry on and the person to listen to us offload.
She is now working incredibly hard to ensure that we can support both elective and emergency activity, providing the best possible care and safety to our Covid and non-Covid patients, whilst also working to pick up the pieces of her exhausted team, whilst planning for the second Covid wave and also designing next years Critical Care new build opening. Plus her day-to-day job. Lisa is an inspiration and role model to us all.