Rachel Atkins
October 2023
Rachel
Atkins
,
RMN
East Oxford Health Centre
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Oxford
,
Oxfordshire
United Kingdom
Rachel is dedicated to nursing her patients, is very unassuming and humble with a warm, polite personality, and is always willing to go that extra 'mile.'
Anyone who works with Rachel will know she is one of the world's kindest people and a superb nurse.
Rachel is kind, caring, and committed to her patients, giving extra minutes of her time to ensure the patient's needs are met. Listening to her thorough but succinct handovers, one can tell how observant she is of the whole picture surrounding each of her patients. She totally encompasses the 5Cs of Nursing - oozes compassion, is extremely competent and thorough in everything she does, has excellent communication skills with her patients, families, team, GPs, and other HCPs, and has displayed courage and commitment from the start of her career as a newly qualified nurse, joining the District Nurses within days of the Covid pandemic and all that entailed.
Rachel is dedicated to nursing her patients, is very unassuming and humble with a warm, polite personality, and is always willing to go that extra 'mile.' One cannot really cite her care for a particular patient as all of her patients are important to her and receive the same care and professionalism. However, there were some palliative and vulnerable patients (E Mc, MT, DA, DS, BT, and KS) whereby Rachel has gone over and beyond her remit. For instance, where other external services (Social Services and the Council) were tardy or poor in failing to achieve housing needs, Rachel would pursue these services endlessly until results were achieved, eg, replacing broken windows, replacing a bathroom, and replacing hazardous flooring for bathroom, and flea infestations (which was ongoing for at least six months and was unfortunately, not resolved before the patient died), etc. All of this Rachel did, in addition to constantly raising safeguarding concerns for vulnerable patients.
If one were to be ill, Rachel would truly be the perfect nurse to have. A nurse, a patient can feel confident with and trust, and all of her team hugely admire and respect her.
Sadly, due to her young family commitments, Rachel is putting her DN career on hold and will be taking on a new role as a School Nurse. If a term time contract for DNs were available, we feel sure she would have stayed. As it is, this will be an incredible loss to the DN Service and her patients and a mighty gain for the Schools Nursing Team.
Rachel is kind, caring, and committed to her patients, giving extra minutes of her time to ensure the patient's needs are met. Listening to her thorough but succinct handovers, one can tell how observant she is of the whole picture surrounding each of her patients. She totally encompasses the 5Cs of Nursing - oozes compassion, is extremely competent and thorough in everything she does, has excellent communication skills with her patients, families, team, GPs, and other HCPs, and has displayed courage and commitment from the start of her career as a newly qualified nurse, joining the District Nurses within days of the Covid pandemic and all that entailed.
Rachel is dedicated to nursing her patients, is very unassuming and humble with a warm, polite personality, and is always willing to go that extra 'mile.' One cannot really cite her care for a particular patient as all of her patients are important to her and receive the same care and professionalism. However, there were some palliative and vulnerable patients (E Mc, MT, DA, DS, BT, and KS) whereby Rachel has gone over and beyond her remit. For instance, where other external services (Social Services and the Council) were tardy or poor in failing to achieve housing needs, Rachel would pursue these services endlessly until results were achieved, eg, replacing broken windows, replacing a bathroom, and replacing hazardous flooring for bathroom, and flea infestations (which was ongoing for at least six months and was unfortunately, not resolved before the patient died), etc. All of this Rachel did, in addition to constantly raising safeguarding concerns for vulnerable patients.
If one were to be ill, Rachel would truly be the perfect nurse to have. A nurse, a patient can feel confident with and trust, and all of her team hugely admire and respect her.
Sadly, due to her young family commitments, Rachel is putting her DN career on hold and will be taking on a new role as a School Nurse. If a term time contract for DNs were available, we feel sure she would have stayed. As it is, this will be an incredible loss to the DN Service and her patients and a mighty gain for the Schools Nursing Team.