Originally broadcast on Sunday 11th April this week’s Our Lives radio show with Michelle McManus features Queen’s Nurse Kelvin Frew from the 2017 cohort. Catch up on the BBC Sounds website or mobile app to hear Kelvin tell his own nursing story and his journey to becoming a Queen’s Nurse. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000v19q
Building a fairer, healthier world
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and Midwife and this has been extended through 2021. This year is an opportunity to recognise the compassion, commitment and expert clinical care provided by nurses and midwives over an incredibly diverse range of settings. Their extraordinary contributions throughout the global pandemic…
Helping Nurses Cope with Psychological Trauma in the Workplace
Burn out, stress and PTSD have impacted a high proportion of our hard working community of nurses over the last year, but now a helpful new toolkit and video have been developed to help nurses deal with trauma. As part of a new creative project, community nurses have harnessed the power of storytelling to deal…
COPE Scotland Celebrates 30 Years
Today COPE Scotland turns 30 years old. To celebrate, QNIS chatted to their CEO, and QNIS Honorary Fellow, Hilda Campbell about where she gets her motivation and her surprise spring anthem. You’re a busy woman, how do you start your day? Tripping over the cats! Making a fuss of them. Clean teeth, a glass…
Community nursing experts sign joint letter to the NMC
Today, the QNIS signed a joint letter to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) regarding concerns over the review of post-registration standards, in particular, the need for bespoke standards to support each of the specialist practice qualifications (SPQ). The NMC commissioned a report by consultants Pye Tait to analyse and summarise themes arising from the…
New Programme Launched:
Healthier Pregnancies, Better Lives
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…
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…