Publish date: 27 October 2022
Well done to Practice Development Nurse, Melville Jimmy Garber, whose work has been 'highly commended' at several prestigious award ceremonies.
Melville, known to his friends and colleagues as 'Jimmy', was the driving force behind the Trust's Scenario Video Project.
The project includes 10 short powerful films based on real life inpatient experiences and critical incidents on acute mental health wards.
It's been a busy week for Jimmy who attended both the Nursing Times Awards and HSJ Patient Safety Awards, and although the project didn't win, it was 'highly commended' at the latter.
It also narrowly missed out on winning a PPIMH Award earlier this month, but also was 'highly commended' by the judges.
Jimmy now awaits the results of two prestigious award ceremonies - the LaingBuisson Award and the Great British Care Awards.
The amount of recognition the project has received is a tribute to the hard work of Jimmy and his colleagues.
Jimmy said: "In this day and age of acute ward pressures and staffing concerns, time is priceless. Staff behaviours are crucial to the patient experience.
"Frontline staff struggle to find time to learn, digest relevant information and assimilate it.
"The idea for the Scenario Videos was inspired by Practice Development Local Service colleagues.
“We wanted to include relevant information about the impact of staff on patients in a powerful and memorable way that taps into the viewer’s emotions and empathy.
"Specifically using audio visual tools in the form of short powerful films packed with critical incidents.
"I brought in a film crew, AV2, and briefed them to support with storytelling."
The films 'bring the patient journey to life' and after each group viewing, discussions take place on the patient experience, staff role, empathy, trauma, safe wards and other subjects which encourage group learning and reflection.
The videos are now being used with student, newly qualified and International Educated Nurses (IENs) as well as in multi-disciplinary spaces with fantastic feedback and reviews.
The films provide a supportive approach to learning as an alternative to other traditional methods of which some staff struggle to engage with, assimilate and digest.
They feature ‘first timer ‘staff actors/actresses from across Local Services as well as professional actors/actresses, such as Winston Ellis – who starred in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and James Bond – ‘No Time to Die‘, who were passionate to support the Trust in this fantastic Project.
The idea was driven by a Local Services QI project which determined that improving the Staff experience directly improved the Patient Experience.
The services of a film crew Av2, were enlisted to support Jimmy with storytelling and filming.
Outside of working as a clinician, Jimmy is a lyricist, musical artist, writer and co-producer of music videos and documentaries, experience which was vital in actualising this project.
