Dr Lisa Bayliss-Pratt is hopeful she can use her position at the top of the nursing hierarchy to make a difference unlike ever before. While many would have you believe that nurses all over the country are still licking their wounds over the Mid Staffordshire scandal, Dr Bayliss-Pratt paints a somewhat different picture - one of optimism and renewed vigour from the profession in ensuring such appalling care is never allowed to infect an NHS organisation ever again. Embarking on her career in nursing at age 18, the nurse leader has never once looked back throughout her climb up the managerial ladder to the dizzying heights of the NHS, even finding time to undertake a doctorate focusing on the practice-based learning benefits of undergraduate nurse training as she continued her ascent. Her passion for value-led nursing education is undeniable and her insistence for a more rigorous selection process for prospective nurses will mean nursing will certainly be no longer viewed as an 'easy route to take. What sparked your interest in nurse education and training? Training is the lifeblood of a healthy workforce. If you have good educators you make good trainees that are inspired and enthused. These trainees are not only satisfied with their job but they also strive to carry out their work to the best of their abilities, which leads to happy patients and improved outcomes. What is your vision for the nursing workforce of the future? As well as putting the patient at the centre of everything the future nursing workforce does, we are absolutely committed to ensuring we recruit nurses with the right values and the right behaviours. Some of my other key aspirations are to look at multi-professional working and enabling more nurses to carry out clinical academic programmes. I am also committed to supporting, inspiring and nurturing the bands one to four workforce with regards to widening their participation, offering opportunities for people to get exposure to what the NHS is like and what it might be like to be a nurse.
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