Saturday 11 February 2012
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A day in the life of Maggie Horne, nurse and education lead at Thorpe Hall Hospice
12 May 2010
I am responsible for the education and development of the team here at Sue Ryder - Thorpe Hall Hospice. This includes not only the nurses and doctors, but also fundraisers, administrators, secretaries, cooks, cleaners, receptionists and gardeners. We also have an army of enthusiastic volunteers who take on many of these roles.
With this variety of roles to cater for, I do not have a typical day. One of my main duties though is to ensure that all the staff deliver high quality, safe practice; quality of care is paramount within Sue Ryder.
My colleagues have a huge appetite for learning; they want to learn because they want to deliver good care to patients and their families. This makes my job a lot easier. I am proud of the fact they want to learn, not to benefit themselves alone, but to benefit the patients they care for.
Out in the wider community my role is to get people to talk about death and dying. My most demanding, and most rewarding, audience has been a group of school sixth formers. They presented me with the kind of challenging questions that really make you think about your practice, about what it is we do and why we do it.
I am proud that I am a nurse and that I work for Sue Ryder.