When I am no longer even a memory, just a name, I hope my voice may perpetuate the great work of my life.

Florence Nightingale

About the Foundation

The Foundation’s principal focus is on improving health, clinical outcomes and patient experience, through building nursing and midwifery leadership capacity and capability. It does this by enabling nurses and midwives to access sophisticated and bespoke leadership development opportunities, both in the UK and overseas, tailored to the scholar’s needs.

The bespoke leadership development programmes ensure the Foundation’s offer remains unique and highly sought after. Unlike doctors, nurses and midwives have few opportunities to develop their leadership skills. We have an excellent record of delivery, all of our scholars undertake projects which are focused on improving patient care and health outcomes and within two years the majority of our scholars are promoted to more senior roles as a result of their scholarship.

It is important that nurses and midwives are empowered to use their professional voice effectively and seek all opportunities to influence healthcare policy and practice. We will ensure that the Foundation becomes ‘the go to place’ for professional opinion and debate, a recognised academy for healthcare thought, and will be the voice for the nursing and midwifery.

Our mission

To pioneer change and improvements in patient and health outcomes, through nursing and midwifery leadership, honouring Florence Nightingale’s legacy.

Our values

We are guided by a core set of values:

Care

We care for patients and this is at the heart of everything we do. Like Florence Nightingale, we have an overriding instinct to be better and discover new ways to improve patient care.

Challenge

We challenge norms and non-evidenced based nursing and midwifery practice. We promote transparency and lead communities to ignite change for the better. We use Florence’s legacy as leverage to intelligently influence those around us, unafraid to challenge the status quo when needed.

Nurture

We nurture our scholars and provide the tools, confidence and knowledge they need to lead change and influence those around them.

Promote

We promote courageous leaders who discover new ways of working and forge a path to impact policy and practice at local, national and international levels.

Our promise

We will:

Select the very best talent in nursing and midwifery as scholars of the Foundation. Through our bespoke scholarship programmes, we will inspire, nurture and support their future success. Our programmes are designed with, and delivered by, our partners within and outside of health and social care.

Connect nurses and midwives to become the positive voice of nursing and midwifery.

Shine a light on nurses and midwives and their practice. We will commemorate Florence’s legacy and the impact she had on modern day nursing and midwifery.

We will identify practice that is not evidenced based, support new research to generate new knowledge, communicate and celebrate our achievements and the impact our work has on improvements in health and social care.

Strategic Goals

There are four strategic priorities that underpin the Foundation’s strategy and set out the principles by which we will engage in our work:

1

Demonstrate impact – ensure our important work, and that of our nursing and midwifery scholars, is published to facilitate adoption by others, enhance impact and raise the profile of the Foundation.

2

Influence policy and practice – support and develop nursing and midwifery clinical and research leaders to create the evidence base to change clinical practice and influence healthcare policy.

3

Increase national and global reputation, visibility and reach – develop our position and brand as a credible voice for nursing and midwifery practice to ensure The Florence Nightingale Foundation is a household name.

4

Grow and sustain – secure and increase the financial position of the Foundation.

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