He is the first Filipino and the first nurse in the UK to win the award.
Fernando is a trauma and orthopedic nurse at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust who headed a ten-member team for his project dubbed as ‘Striving for Excellence in the Care of Elderly Patients with Hip Fracture.’
The project introduced a successful implementation of service improvements for elderly hip fracture patients leading to specialist medical care and early rehabilitation of patients. It also offered a holistic approach for the physical, emotional and psychological treatment of elderly patients who suffered from hip fractures.
“I just felt very proud that a Filipino nurse has won the award for the first time and a nurse has won this for the first time. I also felt relieved that we could highlight the devastating effect of osteoporosis not only in the UK but also in the world and show the excellent preventative measures that we could implement,” said Fernando.
The father of three received the award during the Clinical Leaders Network 2012 convention recently.
“The ultimate winners of this award are the patients and their families because in the end, they receive the best possible care from us,” he told ABS-CBN Europe.
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