Rhiannon Frame-Jones, a previous student at our University, has won the Cassandra Jardine Memorial Prize for her account about her efforts to save a stranger’s life as a student nurse, beating over 100 other entries.
Rhiannon Frame-Jones studied English at the University before training as a nurse and qualifying in April 2015. She now works in Neuro Intensive Care at Southampton General Hospital.
Her submission details her dedication to saving a stranger’s life who had collapsed on the street, before she had qualified as a nurse. As our student nurses continue through lectures and placement over the summer, Rhiannon Frame-Jones highlights the importance of what they are doing in ‘We are so vulnerable, so easily broken.’
Deputy Editor of The Telegraph, Liz Hunt, said it was the broader theme and message that made our Alumna’s article stand out from the crowd, which she summarised with a sentence from the winning piece:
“There is another factor that stands between us and the abyss: each other.”
In her article, Rhiannon Frame-Jones points readers towards The British Heart Foundation‘s aim to make CPR a part of the national curriculum, and information on how to get life-saving training from St John’s Ambulance.