One of the first community nurses to receive the title of Queen’s Nurse in Scotland for almost 50 years has now been awarded a further prestigious honour for her outstanding work. Jess Davidson, senior clinical forensic nurse based at St Leonard’s police station in Edinburgh, was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing…
International Nurses’ Day – a celebration of community nursing
For International Nurses’ Day, we want to celebrate the wonderful diversity of roles that are on offer to those who want to pursue a career nursing in the community. To showcase community nursing in 2018, there is no better way than to highlight some of the work of the first cohort of Queen’s Nurses who…
QNIS Nursing Now series celebrates International Day of the Midwife by profiling Queen’s Nurse Hilary
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 more,” she says. “They are pregnant, traumatised, and many have been abused.…
Investment in community nursing training in new primary care workforce plan
Almost £7 million is being invested in the education and training of general practice nurses and district nurses over three years, the Health Secretary has announced. The £6.9m figure was included in the Scottish Government’s new primary care workforce plan which places an emphasis on the importance of highly skilled multi-disciplinary teams. Shona Robison said…
Nursing Now: remote and rural nursing
The latest post in our Nursing Now series shines a spotlight on nursing in remote and rural communities. Advanced Nurse Practitioner Ian Hall works on the non-doctor Orkney island of Shapinsay while Clare Stiles, NHS Shetland’s team leader for Child Health, oversees the health and wellbeing of children living on 15 different islands. We also…
Queen’s Nurse Barbara shares her experience in webinar
Queen’s Nurse Barbara McFadzean recently took part in a webinar hosted by the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) Scotland. Barbara spoke about her role as a District Nursing Sister in NHS Ayrshire and Arran as part of the second series of webinars on people-centred integrated care in practice. The webinars are hosted by IFIC Scotland in collaboration with the University…
Projects involved in Catalysts for Change programme meet for workshop
The QNIS Catalysts for Change programme supports seven projects which are tackling health inequalities in communities across Scotland. Grants of up to £5,000 are available for nurse-led projects which will be small scale and may involve scoping a need or piloting a new way of working. The groups involved in the programme, which is in…
Second year of the Queen’s Nurse programme in Scotland begins
The 21 community nurses selected to be the latest Queen’s Nurse candidates have gathered together for the first time as the 2018 programme gets under way. The group travelled from across Scotland for a week-long residential at Balbirnie House in Fife to begin their nine-month journey to becoming Queen’s Nurses. It is only the second…
Nursing Now: QNIS supports launch of global campaign raising profile of nursing
The Nursing Now campaign, launched today, is run in collaboration with the International Council of Nurses and the World Health Organisation. It seeks to empower nurses to take their place at the heart of tackling 21st century health challenges and runs until the end of 2020 – the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. At the centre…
QNIS Annual Newsletter available to view online
The QNIS newsletter and review of the year for 2017 is now available. The publication features all the information about the new Queen’s Nurses – 20 community nurses who were the first to receive the title for almost 50 years. It also updates readers on what the QNIS staff have been working on throughout the…
