This interactive workshop will provide you with a great opportunity to check-in with yourself. It will remind you that your health and wellbeing is as valuable as your skills and knowledge as a health professional. 
 
At the Royal College of Nursing Counselling Service we have experience of working with individuals who too often ignore symptoms of stress and anxiety which inevitably leads to psychological, physical or relationship problems. This session aims to make you think twice about doing this. It will equip you with knowledge and awareness of the importance of self-care and resilience.
 
Besides some hard hitting facts, we will share our stories, have some fun and hopefully come away inspired by each other to make positive changes – no matter how small. 

Working as a Stroke Advanced Nurse Practitioner at North Bristol NHS Trust, I will be discussing the advances in stroke care and the cutting edge interventions that are saving stroke patients from death and disability. I am lucky enough to work within a trust that can provide the gold standard of medical treatments and interventions that are saving and changing the lives of those who have suffered a stroke, many of whom would be left with severe disability if they were to survive, without the ground breaking treatments that we offer.
 
Stroke nursing is acute, highly skilled, challenging, and rewarding. Treatments are advancing and progressing rapidly to improve the outcomes for every individual who suffers a stroke. We are  working with partner organisations across the region in developing and delivering hyper acute stroke services in the future so are expecting an increase of service users and acuity, therefore we must expand our service to meet the needs of those at their most vulnerable.