{"id":663,"date":"2021-04-14T18:30:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T18:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthcareworld.com\/festival\/?p=663"},"modified":"2021-04-14T18:30:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T18:30:34","slug":"night-for-nurses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthcareworld.com\/festival\/night-for-nurses\/","title":{"rendered":"NIGHT\u00a0for Nurses\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Making the mental health of nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants a top priority, by Sophia Kurz\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The advent of COVID-19\u00a0<\/span>has\u00a0<\/span>impacted the United Kingdom\u00a0<\/span>in ways that no one could predict.\u00a0<\/span>So far, the UK\u00a0<\/span>death toll numbers\u00a0<\/span>127<\/span>,000<\/span>\u00a0individuals\u00a0<\/span>with more than 4m<\/span>\u00a0cases. The virus has affected not just\u00a0<\/span>patients\u00a0<\/span>and their families, but also healthcare workers<\/span>. Working long hours<\/span>\u00a0at risk of contracting the virus,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0they also have to deal with the heavy stress and pressure placed to keep their COVID infected patients alive.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201c<\/span>Nurses are suffering the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic. They are physically and mentally exhausted. Particularly, within critical care, there are significant levels of post-traumatic stress evident, which is extremely worrying. This is simply not sustainable<\/span>,\u201d said Nicki\u00a0<\/span>Credland<\/span>, chair of\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>British Association of Critical Care Nurses<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Nightingale Initiative for Global Healthcare Transformation (NIGHT) was founded earlier this year by Peter Arndt and Kieran Prince.\u00a0 It is aiming to raise funds in order to provide confidential mental health services to NHS nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants when required.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>I think\u00a0<\/span>we probably got one of the fastest approvals in the history of the\u00a0<\/span>C<\/span>harity\u00a0<\/span>C<\/span>ommission<\/span>,\u201d says co-founder Peter Arndt.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u201c<\/span>We handed in the application on 20<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>December, two hours before they shut down for the year and we got the approval three hours after they opened up on\u00a0<\/span>4<\/span>th<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>January.<\/span>\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

NIGHT\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>ambition<\/span>\u00a0to help NHS\u00a0<\/span>workers<\/span>\u00a0is\u00a0<\/span>fue<\/span>l<\/span>led<\/span>\u00a0by the alarming number who experience mental health issues, but do not reach out. According to the charity\u2019s website, \u201c<\/span>The annual suicide rate within nursing is nearly 2<\/span>5 per cent<\/span>\u00a0above the national average<\/span>\u201d and \u201c<\/span>85<\/span>\u00a0per cent<\/span>\u00a0of medical practitioners have experienced problems with mental health but have never sought out treatment<\/span>.<\/span>\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

NIGHT is a unique charity in that they\u00a0<\/span>aim to\u00a0<\/span>provide\u00a0<\/span>professional help to sufferers<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>in contrast to other mental health charities who often utili<\/span>s<\/span>e volunteers to speak with individuals. \u201c<\/span>There are about 25 to 30 mental health charities in the United Kingdom<\/span>, b<\/span>ut they don’t have clinicians because clinicians charge to treat someone. And no charity is out there that spends several hundred pounds on each afflicted person that their charity looks after<\/span>,\u201d says Arndt<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With this ambitious goal in mind, t<\/span>he charity is currently trying to obtain funds and clinicians<\/span>\u00a0to help the many NHS workers who have borne the brunt of the pandemic in the UK.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

www.nightfornurses.co.uk<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Making the mental health of nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants a top priority, by Sophia Kurz\u00a0 The advent of COVID-19\u00a0has\u00a0impacted the United Kingdom\u00a0in ways that no one could predict.\u00a0So far, the UK\u00a0death toll numbers\u00a0127,000\u00a0individuals\u00a0with more than 4m\u00a0cases. The virus has affected not just\u00a0patients\u00a0and their families, but also healthcare workers. Working long hours\u00a0at risk of contracting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthcareworld.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthcareworld.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthcareworld.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthcareworld.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthcareworld.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthcareworld.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/healthcareworld.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthcareworld.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthcareworld.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthcareworld.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthcareworld.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthcareworld.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}