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Project 90 - Nurses Education

The Nurse Education arm strives to empower and enhance education and training for nurses and healthcare staff in diverse gastroenterology settings, including wards, outpatient clinics, theatres, and critical care. By strengthening workforce competence, it supports the delivery of high-quality, safe patient care. Gastroenterology nursing faces a global workforce shortage, impacting recruitment and retention. This specialty requires complex skills vital to patient outcomes. Accessible, flexible, and career-enhancing education pathways can boost staff competence, confidence, and lifelong learning, ensuring excellence in care delivery. 

Aims and Objectives

Meet the Project 90 Team

Our aim is to enhance standards of education and training in gastroenterology nursing, leading to improved patient care, safety, and person-centred outcomes. We strive to establish a sustainable and cost-effective educational model that is multi-professional and learner-centred, ensuring accessibility and efficiency. By providing a standardised, quality-assured education package for nurses, we will support and build the future workforce while promoting equity of access. Additionally, we will maximise the use of digital technology and e-learning, offering free access to a centralised learning resource to facilitate the sharing of innovation and best practices.

Workstream Lead
Dr Phedra Dodds
Phedra has spent 25 years working in endoscopy; as an endoscopy nurse, Clinical Endoscopist and now National Endoscopy Programme Lead. In 2013 Phedra became a Consultant Nurse for Endoscopy and was awarded a PhD in Medicine for an RCT studying the effects of IBD individualised patient education.  After two decades as a colonoscopist she hung up her scope and led two endoscopy academies – one in the Southwest of England and one in Wales. She has worked for JAG as the JETS Workforce Clinical Lead transforming endoscopy workforce education and now holds the nurse lead post within the BSG Project 90 and is creating a gastroenterology educational package.  She has published widely on subjects such as endoscopy, workforce development and service improvement.

  

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