The Nightingale Fund

I felt privileged to be chosen as a recipient of the Nightingale Fund. As a young black midwife, I started my Masters with the hopes of having a career as an academic. Without the support from the Nightingale Fund, I would not have been able to complete my Masters. .

The support I received allowed me to study for my Masters fulltime whilst working part time as an Assistant Lecturer, a role I would not have been successfully appointed to without evidence of postgraduate study. This is also the case for my current role as a Midwifery Teaching Associate. .

I truly appreciate and am grateful to all those on the Nightingale Fund board and secretaries who treated me with so much kindness and respect throughout my application process.

I would like to say a huge thank you to The Nightingale Fund for the grant I received which enabled me to undertake my dissertation module to complete my MSc.

Many thanks for supporting my clinical doctorate programme so far. I have just passed my first module. The module looked at identifying a current issue within our practice and suggesting possible solutions. I looked at the demands and volume of patients presenting in general practice during COVID-19 and what effect this had on clinicians and patients.

From a personal point, I found this module really interesting and learnt a great deal. I was also pleased to have a summary of my work published.

Thanks again for supporting me.

As a relatively new Health Visitor, when I commenced my Public Health Nursing training, I observed how unsure many community professionals appear when supporting parents of premature infants. I feel my dissertation will increase awareness of the long-term needs that these families have and highlight the community support they may require from a range of healthcare professionals. I hope my work will contribute to paving the way to enhancing community care for future neonatal families, by listening to those who have experienced and lived through taking a premature infant home. I believe that ensuring these parents are appropriately supported at home will directly impact on premature infants’ wellbeing and may impact on their long-term health outcomes. I would like to say a huge thank you to The Nightingale Fund for the grant I received, which enabled me to undertake this module and in turn complete my MSc. I am keen to get my review published and will continue being an advocate for parents of premature infants in the community.