Suzy Mee is a resuscitation officer at CUH. She originally joined as a student nurse in 2001 and qualified in 2004. Suzy loves working at CUH but it's also a special place for her as she met her husband here and had one of children at the Rosie! Here Suzy tells us more about her 20 years at CUH.
My name is Suzy Mee and I am a resuscitation officer here at CUH. I enjoy this specialist role as I am passionate about training, I work alongside a team of experienced professionals and feel able to make a real difference to patient safety.
I joined the Trust in 2001 as a student nurse, enjoying placements in multiple clinical areas of the hospital. In 2004 I qualified as a registered nurse and my first post was on the plastic surgery ward.
From there I went to ward D7 as an E grade (senior staff nurse). At the time D7 was a general surgery ward, later becoming upper gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary surgery. In 2013 I transferred to the intermediate dependency area on D4 where I stayed for 10 years before joining resuscitation services in September 2023.
The trust is a special place for me, not just professionally, but personally. During my training I met fellow nursing student, Chris Mee, who is now a specialist nurse with the rapid response team.
We trained together, qualified together and then in 2007 we got married – it felt like half of the trust was invited to the wedding!
Together we have three children, one of which was born at the Rosie Hospital.
On a day to day basis I teach different life support courses to staff in CUH, I visit wards and clinical areas to provide in situ scenario training about clinical emergencies and escalating deteriorating patients. We happily get involved with any bespoke teaching sessions for any area that request it, such as divisional away days. We are involved in service improvement projects and also attend 2222 calls as part of the cardiac arrest team and provide wellbeing support where needed.
I am responsible for auditing the ReSPECT (Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment) process at CUH, monitoring compliance with multiple standards and providing data analysis. This improves patient centred care, advocates for their involvement in treatment decision making and ensures that the treatments we provide are appropriate for their condition.
It feels like the trust and wider biomedical campus is growing every day. The Addenbrooke's Treatment Centre (ATC) didn’t exist and the staff car park was a cricket pitch when I first joined CUH! Not only is the hospital site ever-changing, but so is our profession.
There are so many more opportunities for development, so many routes for our careers to evolve and day to day challenges, like increased acuity and a global pandemic have made us stronger clinicians in ways we don’t even realise.
