2024 Award Winners

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WINNER

Joy Ugwu, Urology CNS, East And North Hertsfordshire Hospital

BAUN Annual Conference 2018 showcased the inaugural Bruce Turner Award and this award returns again for its seventh year in 2024. Bruce Turner was a well known and loved BAUN member, a nurse consultant at the Homerton Hospital, London, and BAUN Education lead for many years.

Our beloved friend and colleague passed away in 2016 after a terminal diagnosis of cancer. He was determined to continue his mission to educate and impassion urological nurses and left instructions that a legacy should continue in his name.

His legacy has been used to establish The Bruce Turner Award: an annual prize which will provide a fully funded place (transport within the UK, accommodation and conference fees) to the BAUN annual conference and more.

Presented by Pauline Bagnall & Carmen Hayes, BAUN

WINNER

Anna Wilson, Urology Nurse Specialist, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust

This award recognises the contributions of a team in the field of Urology. The winner of the award is a team who have demonstrated exceptional service improvement and best practice and, or service redesign to the overall benefit of patient experience.

Presented by Debbie Victor, BAUN & Mary Garthwaite,The Urology Foundation

WINNER

The Urology Department at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHSFT & B Braun Medical

Presented by Emma Chappel, BAUN & Jamie Mckinlay, medac Pharma UK

Sarah Henderson Poster Award

WINNER

Dr Angie Rantell, Consultant Nurse, King's College Hospital

'Expert Consensus: Clinical Practice Tools for a Patient-Centric Approach to Intermittent Catheterization'

This year myself (Anthony Shanahan) had the privilege of judging the Sarah Henderson Award. The quality of the posters were of a high standard and we were both proud of every poster submitted this year

The posters submitted comprised of awareness, educational and research based pieces of work. Their chosen topics all related to aspects of Urology Nursing that no doubt benefitted every reader. The topics ranged from Catheter Care, Management of MS and Spina Bifida, Patient awareness and prostate biopsies. These posters covered most of the sub-speciality aspects within urology nursing

The reasons this poster was chosen as the winner was firstly, the layout and the way it was written was of an exceptional high standard. The topic was very important and we feel that it would relate to urology nurses nationally and internationally. This piece of work showed that a lot of time and effort was put into achieving this research.

We are hoping to see the full and final version as an article within the IJUN.

Presented by Anthony Shanahan, BAUN

Novice Oral Presenter Award

WINNER

Jennifer Arnold, Advanced Nurse Practitioner Prostate, Luton And Dunstable Hospital

'Introducing A Stratified Follow Up For Active Surveillance Patients With Prostate Cancer'

The quality of the oral presentations this year, has as usual been extremely high standard and this made judging both challenging but also pleasurable as well. The winner was chosen because they were very eloquent, they met the requirements for the time keeping, and ticked all the boxes on a subject that is very important to all urology nurses up and down the country.

Presented by Kelly Kusinski, BAUN

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WINNER

Jeanette Smith, Metastatic Prostate CNS, MTW NHS TRUST

This award is given to a nurse who has made a significant difference in the lives of their prostate cancer patients, providing exceptional care during a truly difficult period.

We'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who nominated a nurse for this prestigious award. We had numerous outstanding candidates, but Jeanette Smith stood out.

Visit Prostate Cancer UK's website for more information.

Presented by Naomi Line, Prostate Cancer UK and Sarah Hillery, BAUN

WINNER

Jerome Marley, Lecturer in Nursing, Ulster University

This medal is to celebrate and recognise a legacy of exceptional and continued contribution to British Urology Nursing.

Rachel Leaver was a founder member of BAUN and had remained strongly involved with the association over the years of the organisation’s existence. So committed was she to the mission and values of BAUN that the heart of the association itself reflects so much of what was important to Rachel.

Rachel’s energy and enthusiasm kept the attention of all audience members throughout every talk she delivered. Her love of teaching really shone during her educational presentations and although she had retired from her clinical role at UCLH, Rachel remained engaged in her work as an educator through the university and through BAUN.

Rachel’s support of the BAUN further extended when she became Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Urological Nursing. Here her passion for research and the sharing of best practice came to the fore. As a first-class communicator, Rachel’s gift for writing facilitated the education of thousands of nurses globally. Indeed, it is very likely that you yourself have read some of her work as she was a very prolific author and contributed greatly to the body of knowledge related to urological nursing.

Rachel’s love of life, urology and nursing radiated from her in all that she did. We will show our gratitude to her by continuing to provide the highest standards of education, networking and professional development and honour her contribution and memory through this award.

Presented by Sarah Hillery, BAUN President