RAGLAN nurse consultant Karen Logan has been named as Nurse of the Year in the prestigious Nurse of the Year awards, organised by The Nursing Standard. Karen, who lives at The Birches with her husband Stewart, is Nurse Consultant in Continence Care at Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust and heads up a busy multidisciplinary team of five continence advisors. She trained in the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff in 1979 and worked within the specialist field of urology for nearly 10 years before becoming a continence advisor in 1992. An honorary lecturer at the University of Wales Cardiff, Karen received the Nursing Times annual award in 2003 for developing a Nurse Led Interdisciplinary Continence Service. She has also gained a reputation both nationally and internationally as an opinion leader within her specialist field and is invited to be a guest speaker at nursing and medical conferences as far afield as Malaysia and Canada. Karen said she was shocked and delighted to receive the award. "I had submitted a piece of work for the Innovation in Continence Care Award and knew I had a 50/50 chance of winning that category but I' didn't have a clue that I'd won the overall award until it was announced on the night by Edwina Currie. "It was absolutely amazing - a wonderful night!"
