Chichester University Head of Nursing appeals for more nurses in Sussex

Head of Nursing and Allied Health Nita Munir appeals for more nurses in Sussex as Sussex World visits their facilities.

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00:00I'm Dr Nita Muir, I'm the head of the School of Nursing and Allied Health

00:04here at our amazing campus at the University of Chichester. I'm really delighted today because

00:10we're hosting a college group who are visiting us to have a look at our facilities. These are

00:14first-year students undertaking various healthcare courses and science courses who want to become a

00:19healthcare professional and it's wonderful. We open this opportunity up exclusively for our

00:24partners who wish to come and experience a very bespoke session for their learners.

00:30We absolutely know there are many job vacancies in nursing across the UK and in England,

00:37but it is becoming quite stark and the experience of our patients that they're experiencing in lots

00:42of different clinical environments is probably due to a lack of nursing staff locally. It's

00:49really important that we are enabled to recruit our future nursing workforce to provide care to

00:55our local communities is so important. It's something we're trying to encourage, to think

01:01more broadly around the opportunities that we have in Sussex and they're vast, they're vast

01:05opportunities and fantastic opportunities. We've been here since 2021, we're in our fourth year

01:09now, our second group of students are about to graduate. It's been a tremendous journey for us,

01:15we've had huge success, we've received commendations from our nursing courses as we've

01:20gone through and developed each new course. We've had a range of nursing courses at undergraduate

01:24and postgraduate available. We've been able to embrace the technology in such a way that our

01:30students are pioneers in the local environment. We've introduced electronic practice assessment

01:37documents, the first ones in Sussex and now students are pioneering that across Sussex.

01:42We've been engaging in immersive suites and electronic technology to create scenarios,

01:48again the first one in Sussex. We've embraced and enabled our students to engage comfortably

01:54in robotics and working in that way. So our technology developments and our digital skills

01:59are all developing, so that's been phenomenal and our team, the team we have here is amazing.

02:04They can see the vision, they can see what we're trying to do, they want best students to be coming

02:09through us and the best graduates. We've created opportunities for students to get a guaranteed

02:16employment with the University Hospital Sussex Foundation Trust, so we can offer that whole

02:21trajectory for our learners. So to achieve those credits, if you like, and successes,

02:30has been just demonstrative of the commitment from us here at the University of Chichester.

02:35It's not just us in the team here, nurses teaching nurses, we're here as a community,

02:39our service users and carers are a really key part of our community, we're here as a community

02:44in the University. There are many people working in the background to enable our students to succeed

02:50and so the commitment from the University of Chichester has been so significant to promote

02:54healthcare and nursing in West Sussex and I think it's astounding what we've achieved,

02:59but we've done it because we've been coming from a really strong community background.