Heartbeat: Odeena wins Shiela Lorimer award

August 30, 2019

Staff Nurse in Ambulatory Care, Odeena Gregory has been recognised for her nursing clinical excellence by winning the 2019 Shiela Lorimer award.

The awards ceremony was hosted in July at our Ambulatory Medical Assessment Area at City Hospital, and as part of winning the award, Odeena will be provided with financial support to attend the Society Acute Medicine Conference later this year.

The prestigious award was launched to commemorate Shiela Lorimer, who was an acute medicine nurse practitioner and worked for the Trust for over two decades. Shiela was a pioneer in her field, being the first nurse to successfully implement nurse led discharge. This led to advanced nurses discharging patients out of hours on all medical wards, resulting in vastly improved patient journey and experience.

Congratulating Odeena on her award, Acute Medicine Nurse Practitioner, Sarah Peyton said: “Odeena joins an illustrious group of winners dating back to 2015 including Claire Chambers, Socorro Rosaupan, Keeley Hopcraft and Tracy Ranford.

“She is truly deserving of this special award and I’m certain everybody across the Trust will agree with me on this.”

Dr Sarbjit Clare, Consultant Physician in Acute Medicine echoed these thoughts saying: “This award not only aims to salute Shiela but also recognises young nurses who always want to develop themselves and strive to be the very best they can be. I hope everybody across the organisation will join me in congratulating Odeena on winning the award.”

Odeena was delighted when she heard she had won this year’s award. She said: “I was overjoyed to be announced as the 2019 Shiela Lorimer award winner! I was also shocked as many of my fellow colleagues have worked very hard over the last 12 months, so to be recognised in such a way is humbling to say the least. I would like to also thank my peers as without them I wouldn’t have been able to receive this recognition award.”