Welcome to our blogs page where we share stories relating to health inequalities, community projects, sustainability, leadership and community nursing.
Florence Nightingale: a vision for nurses as social reformers
Clare Cable, Chief Executive and Nurse Director Florence Nightingale Clare Cable Today we are celebrating Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday. Florence…
Healthcare heroes? It is women who are the real heroes.
Today’s we celebrate International Day of the Midwife 2020 with a blog from a community midwife who shares her account…
Working on the front line but not on the front line
Queen’s Nurse, Jane Douglas shares her perspective on the role of nursing in care homes during the COVID pandemic. This…
Dancing the Mandalas of Critical Creativity in Nursing and Healthcare
Brendan McCormack, who has worked with us to co-design the Queen’s Nurse programme, shares a new resource on critical creativity…
Standing on the shoulders of giants
Neil McLennan is a historian and Director of Leadership Programmes, University of Aberdeen. He also sits on the Lay Committee…
Louisa Jordan and the Scottish Women’s Hospital
With the new temporary field hospital in Glasgow being named after Queen’s Nurse Louisa Jordan, we asked QNIS Fellow Alison…
‘You cannot pour from an empty cup’
In these uncertain and busy times, it can be all too easy to forget to look after yourself. Hilda Campbell,…
EveryBodyCan – whats’s it all about?
We are proud to be supporting the British Lymphology Society’s 2020 Campaign – EveryBodyCan. The BLS provided us with this…
From volunteer to nurse
In December 2019, the first ever QNIS Academic Prize was awarded within the Open University. You can read about the…
What does a learning disability nurse do?
In a new series of blogs, learning disability nurses from across Scotland share their experiences. Our first comes from Queen’s…
