19 September, 2024
Pictured: St James’s Hospital Nursing Sepsis Working Group with Sharon Slattery, Director of Nursing
Back Row L-R: Tríona Yearsley (CANP, Critical Care), Vynn Concepcion (Staff Nurse), Halette Labigan (Staff Nurse), Dona Lorenzo (CNM 2, ICU)
Front Row L-R: Lionel Pusing (CPC, Sepsis Nurse-Lead), Sharon Slattery (DON), Myla Mariel Rivas (CPF, Medical Inpatients), Resmi Sreekanth (CPF, Surgical Inpatients), Reenu Varughese (CNM2, Private 3), Jiby Devassy (CPF, Surgical Inpatients), Adelina Baciu (CNM 1, St Johns Ward), Dr Nadim Akashe (Medical Consultant, Sepsis Clinical Lead)
September is Sepsis Awareness Month, an internationally designated month of raising awareness for sepsis and it signs. In recognition of this, St James’s Hospital hosted its inaugural Sepsis Symposium with the theme for this year’s seminar being, ‘Knowledge Saves Lives… Think Sepsis”.
The symposium was held on Wednesday, 11 September in the Davis Coakley Lecture Theatre in MISA, St James’s Hospital, and was attended by almost 200 staff. The symposium attracted a range of clinical staff, from nurses to consultants and NCHDs.
The symposium offered a learning platform that focused on three main tenets: sepsis awareness and escalation of care, sepsis related research and audits, and professional networking and interactive learning. The day was split into three parts in order to cover the different tenets the symposium brought to the fore, each of which included expert input from clinicians from across the hospital. The day came to an end following a panel discussion between some of the hospital’s foremost minds on sepsis, as well as Staff Nurse Katelyn Walsh, a sepsis survivor herself who provided brilliant insight into how her experience with sepsis has advanced her nursing practice and approach to patient care.
The event was a huge success, and the St James’s Hospital Nursing Sepsis Working Group, led by Lionel Pusing, would like to extend their thanks to all that attended on the day.