Last week was Trustee’s week, and Vice Chair of QNIS Council, Linda Pollock, has provided us with a look at life as a Trustee. I am passionate about improving care to vulnerable people and have been flying the flag for community nursing since 1976, initially, as a district nurse and then as a community psychiatric…
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Progress towards Fair Dementia Care
Alzheimer Scotland’s Fair Dementia Care campaign received a boost earlier this month when it was highlighted and supported by both the Herald and Glasgow Evening Times. We will be doing more specific features from a community nursing perspective over the coming weeks and months, but here, Amy Dalyrmple, Head of Policy with Alzheimer Scotland, has…
QNIS opens its doors part 3
The third and final instalment in Fiona Fitheridge’s journey through Doors Open. To view part 1 click here. By the beginning of August we had done the first draft of the text ready for the history wall, the designer had created the initial designs and we were on target to have the wall displays ready on time. Besides,…
QNIS opens its doors, part 2
In the second part of Fiona Fitheridge’s blog, looking at Doors Open Day, preparation is key. Part one is available here From our initial interest in Doors Open Day, we had over a year to prepare. But how to tell the story. While the ideas on how to tell our story bubbled away at the back of our minds, we got…
QNIS opens its doors
On 28th September, 31 Castle Terrace was open to the public for the first time, as part of Doors Open Day. Fiona Fitheridge, Welfare and History manager with QNIS, was organiser in chief, and has written a three part blog about the experience. Part 1 is below: 2019 marks 130 years of QNIS. Back in 2018,…
Care Homes as Learning Environments for Student Nurses
Dr Jane Douglas is currently on the QNIS Queen’s Nurse Programme. Jane is the Executive Care Director at Queen’s House, Kelso, and has written us a blog on why care homes can be excellent placements for student placements. When I was asked to write this blog about care homes as a learning environment, I thought…
Prizewinner motivated by QNIS academic award
I was surprised and delighted when I was notified I had won the QNIS academic award. I did not expect that the study I conducted in Indonesia would win this honour. Indonesia is facing a double burden because we are struggling not only to eradicate communicable diseases but also non-communicable diseases resulting from the increase…
Becoming a Queen’s Nurse – Lyndsey’s story
Lyndsey Forsyth is an ADHD Nurse Specialist in Fife. She worked on a children’s ward for five years before taking up her current role in 2005 before the service moved to the community in 2011. Here, Lyndsey talks about what it is like to become a Queen’s Nurse after completing the development programme in 2018.…
Earning my wings on psychological trauma
Jennie Young’s work life is divided between being a Principal Educator (Trauma) at NHS Education for Scotland and Nurse Psychotherapist, Trauma Clinic, NHS Forth Valley. Jennie was also seconded to the Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport at Stirling University between 2013 – 2018, where she was part of a team who created an award-winning…
Being a Catalyst for Change
Elizabeth Smith is Breastfeeding Advocacy Lead for Scotland within the Scottish Government, she is also a Queen’s Nurse. In 2017 she was Community Infant Feeding Nurse at NHS Ayrshire and Arran and received QNIS funding through Catalysts for Change. Here, she tells us about her journey through Catalysts. Read more about her project, here. My role covered…
