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.…
Specialist and Advanced Roles
Cathanna Smith
Cathanna Smith Cathanna Smith is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner working in the small harbour village of Tarbert in Argyll and Bute, where she feels privileged to be at the heart of the local community. My Journey I was born and raised in Stornoway in the Western Isles. When I was just three years old, I…
Julie Lennon
Julie Lennon Julie Lennon works as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) within the small village of Gairloch in the north west Highlands. A lifelong learner, she also works in nursing education and is known as an expert in her field of respiratory care. My Journey I started my training in 1976 straight from leaving school.…
Lorraine Haining
Lorraine Haining Specialist Nurse Practitioner Lorraine Haining has been leading a multidisciplinary dementia team from her base in Dumfries since 2012. My Journey As a small child, I attended nursery at a very early age. The nursery nurses wore very traditional nurses’ uniforms with aprons, cuffs and hats. The matron in charge wore a very…
Bob Gardiner
Bob Gardiner Bob Gardiner works as an Offshore Medic and Occupational Health and Safety Advisor in the oil and gas industry. Employed by TAQA, he is he is based on the Eider platform, 184 kilometres north east of Shetland. My Journey If I look back on it now, I think I fell into nursing –…
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…
Moira Flett
Moira Flett Moira Flett has been working as the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Advisor for Orkney for almost ten years. Recently, Motor Neurone Disease (MND) was added to her role in providing a specialist service to patients across the isles. My Journey I grew up on the island of Westray, one of the smaller Orkney islands,…
Kirsteen Coady
Kirsteen Coady Kirsteen Coady is committed to constant professional development and was one of the first Advanced Nurse Practitioners in her area. She brings a boundless enthusiasm to her role at Macduff Medical Practice in developing services to improve the wellbeing of patients. My Journey There was an old lady who lived at the corner…
Pauline Buchanan
Pauline Buchanan Pauline Buchanan was appointed to a new Community Dermatology Nurse Practitioner post with NHS Fife in January 2017. An enthusiastic learner, she is committed to educating health professionals and patients about managing skin conditions. My Journey I always wanted to be a nurse and it’s what I set off to do starting my…
Rachel McReady
Rachel McReady Rachel in the news Rachel launches recovery road map in Dundee To Cheryl Ferguson, Dundee’s Steeple Church Parish Nurses are “my wee adopted mammies”. To others, they are problem-solvers, shoulders to cry on, and even life-savers. “They’ve done a lot for me and every single person who comes through this door,” says Cheryl.…