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QNIS Awards 2010 - REMINDER

Professional Development, Practice Innovation and Research Awards, 2009/10

Community Based Project Awards:

• Project Proposal

DEADLINE:  Project Applications – 3rd September 2010

 Volunteers Wanted

The Stroke Association is working with St Andrews First Aid in a campaign called ‘Know Your Blood Pressure’, which involves carrying out blood pressure checks at events and conferences.

The Association has asked for volunteers to assist in the campaign. If you are able to volunteer some time to attend an event in Scotland and are qualified to take blood pressures, you would be fully insured in this volunteering role. The Stroke Association would provide all the materials including patient records, information leaflets and equipment and pay reasonable travel costs.

To take part please contact:

Angie Macleod
Communications Manager
The Stroke Association Scotland
Links House
15 Links Place
Edinburgh
EH6 7EZ
Tel: 0131 555 7244
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Dates for the Diary!

Demonstrating the Quality of Community Nursing Care

Stirling Management Centre - 29 September 2010

Booking Form

Provisional Programme

QNIS Annual Conference - Title to follow - Watch this space

Radisson Blu, Edinburgh - 10 March 2011

Fellowship By Assessment

Course programme 2010-2011

The Fellowship By Assessment is an exciting programme that provides all qualified nurses, including staff nurses, working in the community with an opportunity to develop their leadership skills, examine critically their own nursing practice and seek ways of improving patient and family health care.  This work based learning course has been accredited by Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh.  It is assessed through the development of a portfolio of evidence over one to two years.

If you are interested in completing the QNIS Fellowship By Assessment Programme for the academic year 2010-2011, please contact the office for further information.

Honorary Fellowships

QNIS is delighted to award five QNIS Honorary Fellowships this year to the following individuals in recognition of their service to the organisation.

Ruby Matheson is a long serving QNIS Visitor and contributed to 150 years of District Nursing events.

Professor Debbie Tolson is the Chair of the Practice Innovation and Research Committee.

Jane Harris, Jane Cantrell and Dolly McCann are long serving members of the Education and Professional Development Committee.

Lady Prosser will give out these awards at the Annual Gathering lunch on June 14th at Crieff Hydro.

Julia Quickfall PhD study – Title: The cross-cultural promotion of health: a partnership process?

Principles and factors involved in the culturally competent community based nursing care of asylum applicants in Scotland.

Have you ever thought about how community nursing care is influenced by culture and ethnicity? The aim of this ethnographic study was to investigate the principles and factors underlying the culturally competent nursing care of asylum applicants. Three major themes emerged from the study findings: 

• The provision of equitable, accessible and non-discriminatory services?
• The cross-cultural promotion of health?
• The delivery of socially inclusive services

This study contributes to community nursing knowledge in explaining, through synthesis of the literature and study data, a model of cultural competence for the care of asylum applicants. It also provides a set of best practice statements, which require further investigation. If you would like to receive an electronic version of the thesis, please contact Julia Quickfall. Julia can provide a presentation about her research and will be presenting at the CPHVA conference in Harrogate this autumn.

Modernising Nursing in the Community Programme Board

The QNIS Nurse Director, Julia Quickfall is a member of the new Modernising Community Nursing Board. This group is now meeting monthly to discuss how community nursing moves forward to meet service delivery challenges in the 21st centruy.  If you have any issues you wish raised at this forum, please contact the QNIS office. The Modernising Board produces an update after each board meeting, which summarises the current progress and key actions.

Progress and Key Actions from Board meeting on 13 May 2010:

A presentation was given on the eHealth Strategy for NHS Scotland. A small group will consider and recommend how the Board can best provide strategic leadership to facilitate and support eHealth developments for nursing in the community.

The 3 work stream sub-groups - Early Years, Keeping People at Home and Keeping People Healthy at Work and Play - have all met for the 2nd time. Work plans are being finalised for agreement by the Board and will be shared more widely when they are approved.

An update was given on the Review of Nursing in the Community evaluation study contract. A decision has been made on the successful contractor and an announcement will be made as soon as the contract award is complete. Some slippage in the award process means that the report will not now be available until early 2011. The evaluation outputs will be considered by the Board at that time to see how it can inform the Programme.

The Communication Plan and the Framework for Patient and Public Involvement have both been signed-off.

A further draft of the contextual paper on the policy landscape across Scotland and beyond was considered.  Work will continue to complete this for the next Board meeting. The document will then become an ongoing web-based resource and updated twice yearly.

The Scottish Government has appointed Jane Harris, University of Dundee, as the Modernising Nursing in the Community Project Lead. Jane will take up post on 12 July.A presentation by the Joint Improvement Team for Community Care Outcomes will be made at the next Board meeting.

Date of next Board meeting – 14 August 2010

QNIS Conference (11 March 2010)

To view the report and presentations please follow this link: Report & Presentations

If you have any comments or queries regarding the Report please feel free to contact the office.

Biennial ICCHNR Symposium, 4-6 May 2011 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Embracing Equity and Diversity in Community Health Nursing Research

Researchers, practitioners, clinicians, health administrators, policy makers and managers in community and public health nursing, and in other community health disciplines, are invited to join us from around the world as we meet in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in May, 2011 for the next International Conferences in Community Health Care Nursing Research Symposium.

Hosted by the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta, the symposium will focus on the broad themes of diversity, health equity, and community health nursing research in the 21st century, and provide a forum for discussion, debate, and networking.

Edmonton is a vibrant city with numerous cultural and natural attractions, including easy access to Canada's spectacular mountain parks (Jasper and Banff).
For more  information go to www.nursing.ualberta.ca/icchnr