Margaret-Ann Williamson In her role as Health Visitor Team Lead for NHS Forth Valley covering Clackmannanshire, Margaret-Ann Williamson has been responsible for supporting staff through a period of change with the introduction of the Universal Health Visiting Pathway over the last few years. My Journey When I was in sixth year at school, deciding the…
Child and Family Health Nursing
Elizabeth Smith
Elizabeth Smith In her role as a community infant feeding nurse, Elizabeth Smith provides support to mothers across NHS Ayrshire & Arran while also promoting cultural changes within the community to encourage breastfeeding. My Journey I knew I wanted to be a nurse from quite a young age. I went to the University of Glasgow…
Keri Ratter
Keri Ratter Keri Ratter works as a school nurse in Shetland and is passionate about delivering the right care for children and young people across the islands. My Journey I grew up reading the Twinkle comic and I cherished my Nurse Nancy badge I received as a little girl – I still have it to…
Rachel Pulman
Rachel Pulman Rachel Pulman is a Child Protection and Looked After Children’s Nurse for NHS Borders who is known for her extensive knowledge and expertise in supporting the health needs of vulnerable children and young people. My Journey I have always wanted to be a nurse. My grandmother and my aunties were nurses and I…
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…
Brenda Kirk
Brenda Kirk Brenda Kirk has been working in child health for almost 30 years and is now a Clinical Nurse Specialist and Team Leader for the disability nursing team for Specialist Children’s Services in Renfrewshire. Regularly called on within the team for advice, she is also the key contact for other agencies because of her…
Lyndsey Forsyth
Lyndsey Forsyth Lyndsey Forsyth works within NHS Fife as an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Nurse Specialist. Lyndsey’s unwavering passion and enthusiasm to ensure children and young people with ADHD are understood and listened to, drives her to continually keep expert ADHD Nursing high on the agenda. My Journey I started working as a care…
Lesley Paterson
Lesley Paterson Children have been a career theme for Lesley Paterson, who worked as a nanny in her native Northumberland before going into nursing. After a stint as a Staff Nurse in acute medicine, she transferred to Edinburgh’s Sick Children’s Hospital, then the children’s ward in Perth Royal Infirmary. Working in the paediatric outpatient department…
Joan Gracie
Joan Gracie The welfare of children has always been close to Joan Gracie’s heart, and as Team Leader for School Nursing in NHS Forth Valley, she feels she is making a real difference. “There are so many young people in need of help,” she says. “Here we are determined to see they get it, hopefully…
Hilary Alba
Hilary Alba Hilary in the news Hilary hosts conference on Human Trafficking On a wall in her office within Glasgow’s Princess Royal Maternity Hospital, Hilary Alba has hung a massive world map. She looks at it from her desk, pinpointing where the women she works with come from. “Syria, Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Albania, Vietnam, and…