Nicola Dow Care Home Nurse Royal Blind, Jenny’s Well Care Home I have always worked in care homes having originally joined as a part-time carer after school when I was a teenager. At university I firmly decided hospital wasn’t for me, I missed the sense of connection you get in a community setting. Some of…
Care Home Nursing
Pauline McIntyre
Pauline McIntyre Care Home Nurse Bishopton From a very young age my caring nature showed with the close relationship I had with grandparents and other members of my family. My aunt was a nurse and I followed in her footsteps, my brother and cousin have since followed. I am Deputy Director of Care with the veterans’…
Jane Douglas
Jane Douglas Chief Executive Queen’s House (Kelso) I have been at Queen’s House in Kelso in the Scottish Borders for around three years and was appointed Chief Executive in April this year (2019). Queen’s House (Kelso) Ltd. is a registered charity and over the last two years we have grown to now have three homes…
Alison Bunce
Alison Bunce Senior Palliative Care Nurse Inverclyde Compassionate Inverclyde is a social movement which inspires ordinary people to do things for ordinary people by tapping into our desire to be kind, helpful and neighbourly. When it launched three years ago, there weren’t any volunteers and today there are more than 130 people involved. Inverclyde is situated on the banks of…
Lesley Wylie
Lesley Wylie Lesley Wylie is the manager of a dementia specialist home in Bishopton run by the charity Erskine, who have been caring for Scotland’s veterans since 1916. Proud of the relationship-centred culture within the Erskine Park Home, Lesley is motivated to promote care home nursing role as an innovative and developing area of practice.…
Caroline Porter
Caroline Porter Caroline Porter works for Children’s Hospices Across Scotland – better known as CHAS – as a Diana Children’s Nurse, named in honour of Princess Diana to commemorate her life and work. Caroline brings palliative care nursing expertise to babies, children and young people and their families. My Journey Nursing wasn’t always something I…
Kate McConville
Kate McConville Kate McConville is the Peripetetic Clinical Service Manager in Glasgow for Advinia Healthcare and takes a very hands-on approach. “I spend a lot of time watching how care is delivered and listening to how it is received,” she says. “It has to be the very best it can be, and I take a…