On the back of winning the Bronze Award in the Renal Nurse of the Year category at the British Journal of Nursing (BJN) Awards last year, our Lead AKI/Renal Clinical Nurse Specialist, Nicci Geraghty, is proud to have had an article published in the BJN.

It focuses on her story since joining CHFT as our dedicated AKI nurse. She came to us just as the first Covid lockdown happened in 2020. This played to her advantage in some ways, as she was redeployed twice in her first year and could see first-hand the challenge of improving fluid balance monitoring and urinalysis at the Trust.

You can read her article below.

Nicci has also organised her first Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) champion training session for later this month, and hopes to attract lots of colleagues to step forward and help save kidneys.

She said: “I really want colleagues to feel like me - proud of preventing deterioration, enhancing recovery and influencing change in culture around AKI.

“As I like to promote healthy competition, and to support improvement, there are AKI champion mugs for the best pledges and best performing wards, as our AKI data is now on KP+, our Trust’s main reporting system.”

Colleagues who are interested in getting involved will need to be able to attend the monthly AKI Collaborative Workstream.

Training can take place in person or by Microsoft Teams.

It’s on Tuesday, 23rd January in the Large Training Room at CRH between 14:00 - 15:00. You can also choose to attend virtually.

Please email nicola.geraghty@cht.nhs.uk for an invite or to find out more.