Erica Reid is a Trustee of QNIS, Executive Coach and an IHI/Health Foundation Quality Improvement Fellow. Erica’s blog relates the Japanese art of Kintsugi to successful project planning, a task often met with unpredictability and the need for careful consideration. She explains why being accepting of failure is the only real way to nurture improvement…
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Embarking on a leadership journey
Nikki Forsyth is a Health Visitor and Queen’s Nurse currently acting up as Team Lead for Health Visiting and School Nursing. Nikki shares her journey into the new role in the first of a three-part blog series about her secondment. At the start of 2021, I was given the opportunity to take on secondment as…
Hiding in Plain Sight
Joan Gracie is a Supervisor for the Family Nurse Partnership with NHS Forth Valley. Joan talks about the importance of addressing blind spots in preconception health and why she wanted to get involved in QNIS’ new programme of work Healthier Pregnancies, Better Lives to support women to better prepare for pregnancy. Over the past 30 years…
Meaningful Action on Alcohol Harm
Alison Douglas is the Chief Executive of Alcohol Focus Scotland. Alison shares her view on the unhealthy relationship with alcohol which persists in our communities, unintended harm caused by alcohol and the preventative measures we can take to reduce these risks. “Alcohol is celebrated throughout our society and culture. Yet the harm caused by alcohol…
Reducing Gambling Harms
COPE Scotland have put together a Gambling Information booklet, their CEO and Honorary Fellow of QNIS Hilda Campbell provides her tips on how to use the booklet, reduce gambling harms and the role of community nurses in helping to create safer communities. The guidance includes a jigsaw lid toolkit for helping tackle the harms of…
Extremely Diverse and Incredibly Rewarding
Cat Jamieson is a Community Learning Disabilities Nurse, Epilepsy Nurse and Digital Lead, working for PAMIS (Promoting A More Inclusive Society). Cat is also one of the nurses selected for the 2021 Learning Disability cohort. PAMIS are a charity working solely with people who have profound learning disabilities and multiple complex needs, their family carers,…
Connected Recovery and Trauma-Informed Communities
Jess Davidson is a Senior Clinical Forensic Charge Nurse with the South East Scotland Police Custody Healthcare and Forensic Examination Service and Lecturer and Programme Lead in Advanced Forensic Practice at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. On 10th December 2020 the Forensic Medical Services Bill passed unanimously at Stage 3. Victims of sexual offences can now request…
Widening Access to Nursing
Richard Mckinney is a learning disability nursing student studying through the Open University. With a busy schedule and long-held ambition to get into learning disability nursing Richard jumped at the chance to study with the OU, although he could never have expected that his first year would take place during a global pandemic. In October…
Integrated Working to Shield Vulnerable Groups
Marion Mackie is a Respiratory Nurse Specialist based at Renfrew Health and Social Care Centre. She cares for patients within Renfrewshire HSCP/GG&C and works within the Rehabilitation and Enablement Service (RES), acting as an advocate for respiratory patients. In my day to day job I work as an advocate for respiratory patients, liaising with General…
The Show Must Go On
Zoe Horseman is a Research Assistant at the University of Edinburgh and a Community Staff Nurse in NHS Lothian. Her piece, originally written for the University Nursing Studies blog, is a reflection on the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on District Nursing. During the COVID-19 pandemic, while the majority of the country stayed home to…
