Primary Care and Older People
Cancer Services
Sheena Stothers, Complex Skin Cancer CNS, was awarded a
Florence Nightingale Travel Scholarship.
The purpose of the study was to gain
knowledge and experience in order
to develop and implement an
effective and efficient Sentinel
Lymph Node Service for patients
with malignant melanoma in
Northern Ireland.
A three week visit was made to
Norfolk and Norwich University
Hospital, Skin Cancer Unit.
Sheena was also Runner Up in Cancer Nursing Award, RCN
Northern Ireland Nurse of the Year 2019.
Prescribing Systemic Anti Cancer
Treatments
In 2019 Nurse Practitioners and Clinical Nurse Specialists in
South Eastern HSC Trust began prescribing Systemic Anti
Cancer Treatments (SACT) in Oncology and Haematology.
Clinical Nurse Specialists Sarah McCauley and Joanne Ogborn can
be seen in the photograph.
Florence Nightingale Travel Scholarship Award
Dawn Mellon, Acute Oncology Nurse
Specialist with colleagues from the other
Health and Social Care Northern Ireland
Trusts receiving a Macmillan Professional
Excellence Award.
Macmillan Professional Excellence Award
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