The Horizons team features many influential Twitter users. This curates a wealth of insights, knowledge, and information about transformation in health and care from other thought leaders across the world. (Tip: to read an article or watch a video mentioned in a tweet, click on the red text. To view the original tweet, click on the image).
Read about the shared purpose for this brilliant 15,000 strong community in the graphic below!
Nursing Now England
Sunday 12th May is International Nurses Day 2019. We wanted to say a BIG thank you to all the nurses working hard to build positive perceptions of nursing. Read more here.
Bev's blog about yesterday's session at the European Student Nurses Leadership Summit.
Some of our wonderful Nursing Now ambassadors, Fiona and Joanne are holding their 30 day challenge event today (Friday)! Click here to find out more and sign up to be an Ambassador!
The 5th May was the International Day of the Midwife 2019! Bev was celebrating alongside NHS England and NHS Improvement staff, speaking about Transforming the Perceptions of Midwifery.
#ProjectA
Join us for the Ambulance QI Event which will be held in Edinburgh on 15th May. It's going to be a fantastic day. Find out more about the event here. If you would like to attend the event register here.
The community is looking forward to networking, sharing QI learning, and setting ambitions for the Ambulance QI community for the year ahead!
The event in Edinburgh has been a great Q collaboration with Horizons and #Project A.We are all looking forward to the QI event next week in Edinburgh next week!
This is a beautiful follow up to last week's SECAmbGameChangers workshop.
Diversity
Wellbeing
We've never had more productivity tools than we have today & we've rarely felt less productive. Our new tools have given people power to intrude into others' time. We don't have a technology problem, we have a boundary problem. Read more here.
Working from home can mean isolation from colleagues, shift the dynamic with walking meetings!
Improvement and Innovation
"Brainstorming" activities are typically much more comfortable for extroverts who have a preference for pitching in & thinking out loud, without reflection. Here's five ideas for brainstorming-types activities that are designed for introverts, find out more here.
Why, as people leading improvement, we should always, always share our results, find out here.
Communication
Social Media
Helen and Leigh created a new slide deck on being a social leader for #LeadingChangeMHVC. It includes this slide on "types of people on Twitter", especially comissioned for Dr Damara & Joan Chaya. What type are you? Even being a lurker can be a positive thing.
Leadership
Strategies that require clinicians to change their behaviour are more likely to be effective if there is 1) Transparency of purpose; 2) Co-creation of content & 3) Constructive framing. Find out more here.