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Nurse of the Year - Winners
A nurse who has helped relieve the misery of patients with prostate cancer has won a "nurse of the year" competition.
The Whitaker Pouch is named after Justine Whitaker, a Macmillan lymphoedema nurse specialist at the East Lancashire Hospice, Blackburn, and is now supplied worldwide.
It helps reduce the painful swelling that patients can experience.
Ms Whitaker has now been announced as overall winner of the Nursing Standard Nurse 2007 Awards.
Awards were presented by former health minister Julia Cumberlege but winners also received an invitation from health secretary Patricia Hewitt to meet her and discuss how to improve services.
The midwifery and women’s health nursing award was won by Sarah Esegbona, of the St George’s Healthcare Trust, London.
She has set up a midwifery triage system that has prevented women coming into the labour ward unnecessarily and helped improve the care of the women who are in labour.
Nursing student Julie Cresswell, of the University of Central England, Birmingham, also went on to win the student category. Julie had impressed judges by describing how she learnt to listen to the distress of patients with mental health problems and how important this was.