NT Clinical Skills Forum 2022

Welcome to our inaugural Nursing Times Clinical Skills Forum, which is designed to help you bridge the nursing clinical skills gap. I am very excited to be chairing this brand-new event for 2022.

We have designed this event to provide a unique opportunity for you to collectively lead on helping the nursing workforce to improve standards of proficiency and clinical skills.

The forum will help you to explore how to ensure all general nurses have the sufficient standards of proficiency to operate confidently, efficiently and safely.

Whether you’re seeking a solution for your team, want to inspire your peers with your own experience or want to be learning yourself, the Nursing Times Clinical Skills Forum is for you.

As well as the expert keynote presentations that you would expect, the event will feature discussion sessions designed to help keep you learning and developing clinical skills in practice.

The forum will also be interactive with groups asked to tackle gaps in areas such as intravenous therapy, chronic wound care, respiratory, urinary catheterisation and infection prevention and control.

Confirmed speakers include Professor Geraldine Walters, executive director for professional practice at the Nursing and Midwifery Council, Gemma Stacey, director of academy at the Florence Nightingale Foundation and Joanne Bosanquet, chief executive of the Foundation of Nursing Studies.

There are many great reasons to attend but here are my top three. You will hear about guidance on the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s updated standards of proficiency, and about evidence of progress from nurse-led initiatives that improve nurses’ clinical skills and clinical outcomes.

You will also get the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues from both NHS and independent providers to address common challenges, share solutions and formulate action plans.

And, because it is virtual, you will be able to watch this content live to engage with speakers or catch up on-demand if you prefer.

We have a jam-packed agenda so please join me on the mornings of Wednesday 8 and Thursday 9 June at the Nursing Times Clinical Skills Forum. I look forward to meeting you then.

Steve Ford

Editor, Nursing Times