Caroline Bowman

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Caroline Bowman

• Sharing practice a personal reflection

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Career to date

• SVQ 2 pilot study at Stevenson College
• No job guaranteed
• Acute Medical admissions -12 beds
• Medical admissions 30 beds
• ICU seven and a half years
• January 2004 completed Cleanliness Champion

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Career to date --

• Part time secondment
• Never again!!!! 2 roles
• SVQ 4 Management
• SVQ Assessors Course
• BSc (Hons) Health and Social Care
• 2006 CC role made substantive
• Agenda for Change !!!

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Sharing Practice

• Need to get everyone involved
• From Managers down-- Effective leadership
• Porters and domestics to be involved Grass roots
  up approach
• Visit all areas of NHS Lothian
• Passion and enthusiasm
• Hard graft

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Challenges

• Turned up everywhere at meetings
• Prove my worth
• Involved in audits even though not seen as a
  high flyer in the organisation
• Dyslexia
• English as a second language

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I have to include this !!!!
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Initiatives to date

• Workshop sessions
• Study days
• Drop in sessions
• Personal development afternoons
• Extraordinary general meeting
• Hand hygiene awareness sessions
• Global hand hygiene days

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Other initiatives

• 60 years of NHS Glasgow 2 participants oldest
  and youngest Cleanliness Champions in Scotland
• Dress code and uniform policy audit non
  compliance
• 3161 members of staff audited over 17 sites

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Stressor !!!

• Lead uniform policy and dress code group

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Highs

• Award winning Laundry DVD

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More rogue items
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Sharing Practice
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Sweeties ??
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ADDIEWELL

• MENTAL HEALTH ?

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Thoughts for the days weeks and months ahead

• Cleanliness and order are not matters of
  instinct, they are matters of education and like
  most great things you must cultivate a taste for
  them" Benjamin Disraeli
• Soap and education are not as sudden as a
  massacre ,but they are more deadly in the long
  run Mark Twain

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In Conclusion

• If you are a Champion you have to have it in
  your heart Chris Evert