Amanda's Story - Community Nursing with a passion in the UK

Real Nurse Stories

In this episode, I interview Amanda who is a community nurse team leader working in Tameside and Glossip in the North West of England. When Amanda was 15 someone told her that she wasn't clever enough to become a nurse. Amanda's story illustrates how this comment made her even more determined to achieve her goal to become a nurse. Amanda's journey starts as an Assistant nurse and follows her story through to her current role as a community specialist nurse practitioner team leader. Her goal setting didn't stop at nurse training. Amanda then refined and developed more goals and achieved them all with grit and determination. Amanda is a truly passionate advocate for patient care and community nursing. Amanda talks about the impact of COVID-19 on working with patients in the community particularly the difficulties for patients who are receiving end of life care. Her story is inspiring and contains so many takeaways for the listener. Amanda is also known by her own admission as the "singing nurse" and singing is one of her personal resilience strategies that she uses every day. Amanda describes how she overcame presentation anxiety challenges as a result of a debilitating nervous laugh. Amanda talks about the importance of mentorship and is a mentor herself for others. If you would like to know more about the coaching work that I do with nurses or would like to tell your story please get in touch [e-mail].