Date published: 19 February 2024
Mersey Care's community nurses and trainee nurse associates (TNA) have received national and local recognition of their efforts towards patient care by picking up five prestigious awards.
Denise Davies, a specialist Community Public Health Nurse in School Nursing based in Bootle, Sefton, and Hannah Molyneux, a Safeguarding Adults Nurse based in Huyton, Liverpool, received Queen's Nurse awards from community nursing charity The Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI), during a ceremony in London.
Their successes were followed by three further awards at Liverpool John Moores University apprenticeship awards, with Michka Munro winning their apprentice learner of the year award, Nicky Williams, a Registered Nurse Degree Apprenticeship, winning the prestigious apprentice of the year award and Samantha Waters winning the Making a Difference award.
Hannah received her award for showing ‘commitment to high standards of patient care and continually improving practice,’ while the judges thought Denise showed ‘commitment to high standards of patient care within school health.’
BBC Radio Merseyside have also highlighted the QNI successes by interviewing Hannah about the award and the value of community nursing, which you can listen to below:
In addition to Michka and Nikki's achievements, there were several other colleagues who received commendations during the Liverpool John Moores University's awards with Alison Murphy, Wendy Porter and Sandra Watkins finishing runners up in the making a difference award.
Angela Charles and Claire Collister were also runners up in apprentice workplace support of the year award, while Phillip Bennett, Paul Hayden, Michael Kerr, Natalie Meadows, Paula Nixon and Jack Walmsley were all runners up in the award which Michka won. Helen Ward, Vanessa Marland and Michael Kerr finished runners-up in the award Nikki claimed.
More information about our community nursing service can be found on their dedicated webpage.