Introducing ShinyMind for Nurses, Midwives & Healthcare Support Workers
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version of ShinyMind
To benefit from the new Nursing LifePacks you will need to register as a Nurse, Midwife, Nursing Associate or HCSW by clicking here.
If you are having problems registering for the nursing version of ShinyMind, all you need to do is register here and we will get you up and running as soon as possible.
ShinyMind is currently working with NHS England and Improvement as part of our secondment to co-create a doctor/medical practitioners’ version and will roll this out in the future. Please contact hello@shinymind.co.uk if you would like to help take part in the co-design work.
ShinyMind is currently working with NHS Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to roll-out to the nursing family within these areas in the future.
The Nursing Version of ShinyMind is now live
We’ve officially launched and gifted the nursing version of ShinyMind to all NHS nurses, midwives, nursing associates and healthcare support workers in England!
Thank you to the thousands of nurses, midwives, nursing associates and healthcare support workers who joined our online launch event ‘You can’t pour from an empty cup’, hosted by Professor Gemma Stacey, CEO and Director of Florence Nightingale Foundation Policy Unit.
Gemma was also joined by our nurse Q&A panel with Professor Steve Hams MBE MStJ, Chief Nurse at North Bristol NHS Trust, Martin Hogan, Senior Education and Workforce Development Nurse of South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust, Marsha Jones, Deputy Chief Nurse at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, and Janet Thornley, Strategic GPN Lead for the BLMK ICB.
Karen Storey, seconded from NHS England and Improvement as our Nursing and Retention Lead, invited nurses from across the country that have been helping us with the development of the nursing version, and who wanted show their support, to share with us how they use ShinyMind to keep their cups full.
Rebecca Howard, CEO and Founder of ShinyMind, also delivered an interactive self-compassion session and our special guest Michael Rosen recited live his new poem for nurses.
Help us spread the word
Explore our digital materials to help spread the word about the Nursing Version of ShinyMind with your colleagues. Thank you again for all your support in helping ShinyMind reach and empower our invaluable nursing workforce.
Watch ‘You Can’t Pour From An Empty Cup’ Launch Event
Building a nursing version of ShinyMind
Eminent members of the profession from academia and practice make up our Nursing Advisory Board, and have joined forces with ShinyMind as champions and ambassadors to combat burnout in nursing, as well as to tackle current retention and recruitment issues.
Alongside this, we are receiving senior secondment support from Karen Storey, NHS England and Improvement, as our Nursing Retention and Liaison Lead, which has enabled us to further develop digital resources to further support nurses with their health and wellbeing.
With this secondment support and that of the Nursing Advisory Board, key nurse leaders, nurses, midwives, health support workers across the country and the help of the Florence Nightingale Foundation, Foundation of Nursing Studies and Cavell Nurses’ Trust, we are now proud to launch a nursing version of ShinyMind to over 500,000 of the country’s nurses, midwives and health care support workers.
We have built continuous research into our nursing work, with a national piece of research launched to understand where nurses are now, how ShinyMind helps and what resources they need to help them shine.
Meet the Nursing Advisory Board
Dr Joan Myers OBE, QN
has over 35 years’ experience in nursing as a strategic nurse leader, consultant and educator in community children’s nursing services across London. Joan is a multi-award winning nurse and has received an OBE for services to children and nursing in the Queens Birthday honours’ list in 2013. She is a Queen’s Nurse and has a honorary doctorate from Middlesex University. Joan was voted one of the top 50 most influential BME figures in the NHS by the HSJ in 2020 and 2021.
Robin Shohet
is the Founder of the Centre for Supervision and Team Development, a leading training organisation which draws on learning from psychology, psychotherapy, group dynamics, inter-subjectivity, appreciative enquiry and systems thinking.
Prof. Steve Hams MBE
is the Chief Nursing Officer North Bristol NHS Trust, visiting professor at Worcester University and is a Florence Nightingale Foundation scholar. Steve has been a registered nurse for more than 25 years, having initially specialised in coronary care, and has held roles in the NHS, voluntary sector and higher education.
Marsha Jones
is the Director of Nursing and Safeguarding at North East London ICB. She was also the Director of Quality/Clinical Lead for PSIRF Implementation at South West London ICS and Deputy Chief Nurse at Epsom and St Helier Hospitals. Additionally, Marsha is a trained secondary school science teacher, registered nurse, and practising midwife, with over 20 years of experience in the NHS across acute, maternity, community, commissioning, and national roles. She is a founder member of the Caribbean Nurses and Midwives Association (CNMA) UK and a Senior Leader at the Society of African and Caribbean Midwives (SoAC).
Pippa Gough
has a background in nursing, midwifery and health visiting and was Director of Policy Unit for the Royal College of Nursing. She is currently a trustee and vice chair of the NSPCC and independent member of the People Committee at the Alzheimer’s Society, as well as an executive coach working in leadership and organisational development.
Janet Thornley
is the Strategic GPN Lead for Bedford, Luton and Milton Keynes ICS with over 39 years of nursing experience. She is also a faculty member of NAPC.
Joanne Bosanquet MBE
formerly Deputy Chief Nurse for PH England, Joanne was appointed CEO of the Foundation of Nursing Studies in 2019. She was awarded an MBE for services to nursing & healthcare June 2013, an honorary Doctorate from the University of Greenwich, Fellowship of the Queen’s Nursing Institute and a Visiting Professorship at the University of Surrey in 2017. In October 2021, she was awarded an Associate role at the King’s Fund & Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing in June 2022.
Prof. Brian Dolan OBE
is the Director and Co-Founder of the development consultancy Health Service 360. He is also a Visiting Professor of Nursing at the Oxford Institute of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Research and Honorary Professor of Leadership in Healthcare at the University of Salford.
Rebecca Howard FRSA
Rebecca Howard FRSA is an award-winning entrepreneur, leadership psychotherapist, and experienced executive coach with over 17 years in NHS leadership development. As CEO and Founder of ShinyMind, she has developed a mental health and wellbeing app co-designed with the NHS. Backed by science, ShinyMind offers over 150 masterclass exercises and tools proven to reduce stress and anxiety, improve mood, and is freely available to all NHS nurses, midwives, and HCSWs in England. ShinyMind is also more than an app, delivering bespoke psychological wellbeing programmes to support emerging nursing talent, including healthcare support workers and Internationally Educated Nurses, and pioneering Large-scale Virtual Mental Health Group Consultations to support GPs and widen access for 100+ patients.
Karen Storey
is a Queen’s Nurse and former Primary Care Nursing Lead for NHS England. Karen was formerly seconded to ShinyMind to develop digital resources to help nurses with their health and wellbeing, and has now returned to NHS England and Improvement as Community Nursing Lead. This secondment led to the successful launch of the Nursing Version of ShinyMind and helped us achieve incredible milestones.
Martin Hogan
has been a Registered Adult Nurse since 2008 and has a clinical background as a Macmillan Specialist Nurse in Acute Oncology. After the first wave of COVID, his career has been very different. He has worked for the RCN as a Senior Regional Officer for Surrey, and then moved to working within Mental Health, where he led the postgraduate portfolio in education and workforce development. During this time, he completed his Professional Nurse Advocate Course, which led him to become Lead PNA and move into a full-time Lead PNA role in the community, working four days a week within the NHS. Recently, Martin has set up his own company, the Improvement Coalition, where he is the Co-Director for Organisational Development and Consultancy.
Recent research with nurses found
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94 %
say ShinyMind helps them feel better -
77 %
feel more able to manage their health and wellbeing -
60 %
feel their understanding of others has improved -
51 %
feel more confident -
46 %
feel more positive
Co-designed with support from…
Florence Nightingale Foundation
PNA Community
Keele University
NHS England and Improvement
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