QNIS, in partnership with Cattanach and the National Lottery Community Fund, are pleased to announce the launch of the Healthier Pregnancies, Better Lives Programme. Future parents want a safe pregnancy, a thriving baby and a rewarding parenthood. It doesn’t always happen. But these goals can be met more often for more people across Scotland. This…
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Online Film Screening: Riptide
Register to view the film for FREE online Born in Edinburgh, Tim is an actor, writer and film-maker who founded Lyre Productions to make contemporary Scottish feature films. He wrote and produced award-winning Scottish road movie The Inheritance, Edinburgh love story The Space Between, and schizophrenia love story road movie Riptide. The films have screened widely throughout the…
Christie Watson in conversation with Tim Barrow
Register to view the film for FREE online Register for a FREE ticket to the Q&A on Eventbrite Born in Edinburgh, Tim is an actor, writer and film-maker who founded Lyre Productions to make contemporary Scottish feature films. He wrote and produced award-winning Scottish road movie The Inheritance, Edinburgh love story The Space Between, and schizophrenia love…
An evening of spoken word with Stuart Paterson
This event has now finished but the recording is available here for ‘On Demand’ viewing: Some comments from the performance: Stuart A. Paterson is a Scottish poet and performer who writes in both Scots and English. The author of several collections, his poetry has been published and filmed worldwide. Stuart’s work is critically acclaimed, and…
An evening of storytelling with Victoria Whitworth
Register for a FREE ticket on Eventbrite Victoria Whitworth is an author and academic whose research interests focus primarily on Pictish, Anglo-Saxon and Scottish stone sculpture. Having published a selection of fiction and academic texts her latest book ‘Swimming with Seals’ is a memoir detailing her adoption of free swimming in the cold waters of…
ICCHNR Lisbeth Hockey Lecture Available Online
Earlier this month QNIS were proud to host the ICCHNR’s event ‘Bringing Curiosity & Analysis to Community Nursing: Lisbeth Hockey, her Legacy’ in association with The University of Edinburgh. The lecture was given by Professor Dame Anne Marie Rafferty, President of the Royal College of Nursing and Professor of Nursing Policy at King’s College London,…
Scottish Government launches FASD eLearning resource
Invisible, Not Inconsequential The Scottish Government has just launched its free FASD eLearning resource on the NHS Education for Scotland (NES) website. QNIS welcomes this essential online learning resource. It could have significant benefits for professionals and the individuals/families affected if widely used and shared. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is both the most common and the most…
Dundee Queen’s Nurse receives key worker award
This month The Evening Telegraph Dundee in association with Ninja Kiwi named the winners of their Champion Awards 2020. QNIS are delighted to celebrate Queen’s Nurse Rachel McReady who was named Key Worker (individual) Champion at the ceremony held Friday 25th September. Congratulations Rachel. Rachel works at Steeple Church, Dundee with fellow parish nurses Kirsty…
New appointment to QNIS staff
QNIS has appointed a new Deputy Director (Nursing). Dr Sarah Doyle SFHEA, PhD, MRes, PG Dip, RMN Dr Sarah Doyle started this month as QNIS’s new Deputy Director (Nursing). Sarah, who started her career as a community mental health nurse, comes to QNIS from Edinburgh Napier University as a lecturer in mental health nursing. Sarah…
Heroes of the response
QNIS in the Media An excellent segment published by @ThirdForceNews featuring the wonderful work of QN Rachel Mcready from the 2017 cohort and QN Fellow Barbara MacFarlane. An encouraging read, please take a look on the Third Force News website. Barbara MacFarlane and Rachel McReady work as parish nurses at The Steeple Church in Dundee,…
