COPE Scotland have put together a Gambling Information booklet, their CEO and Honorary Fellow of QNIS Hilda Campbell provides her tips on how to use the booklet, reduce gambling harms and the role of community nurses in helping to create safer communities. The guidance includes a jigsaw lid toolkit for helping tackle the harms of…
Extremely Diverse and Incredibly Rewarding
Cat Jamieson is a Community Learning Disabilities Nurse, Epilepsy Nurse and Digital Lead, working for PAMIS (Promoting A More Inclusive Society). Cat is also one of the nurses selected for the 2021 Learning Disability cohort. PAMIS are a charity working solely with people who have profound learning disabilities and multiple complex needs, their family carers,…
Connected Recovery and Trauma-Informed Communities
Jess Davidson is a Senior Clinical Forensic Charge Nurse with the South East Scotland Police Custody Healthcare and Forensic Examination Service and Lecturer and Programme Lead in Advanced Forensic Practice at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. On 10th December 2020 the Forensic Medical Services Bill passed unanimously at Stage 3. Victims of sexual offences can now request…
Widening Access to Nursing
Richard Mckinney is a learning disability nursing student studying through the Open University. With a busy schedule and long-held ambition to get into learning disability nursing Richard jumped at the chance to study with the OU, although he could never have expected that his first year would take place during a global pandemic. In October…
Integrated Working to Shield Vulnerable Groups
Marion Mackie is a Respiratory Nurse Specialist based at Renfrew Health and Social Care Centre. She cares for patients within Renfrewshire HSCP/GG&C and works within the Rehabilitation and Enablement Service (RES), acting as an advocate for respiratory patients. In my day to day job I work as an advocate for respiratory patients, liaising with General…
The Show Must Go On
Zoe Horseman is a Research Assistant at the University of Edinburgh and a Community Staff Nurse in NHS Lothian. Her piece, originally written for the University Nursing Studies blog, is a reflection on the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on District Nursing. During the COVID-19 pandemic, while the majority of the country stayed home to…
2017 Queen’s Nurses – Lean on Me
Ally Lister is a Queen’s Nurse and District Nurse working in Keith and Fochabers. She shares her story of reuniting her 2017 cohort online to create ‘Lean on Me’, a charity cover song to raise funds for QNIS. Everyone has a voice – this statement comes from the heart of someone blessed by having music and singing in her…
Reconnection and Realising the Importance of a Table
Jennifer Grant is a School Nurse working with NHS Fife, she shares her reflections on COVID-19, perhaps the most unexpected being a new found admiration for her dining table! When reflecting about COVID-19 the most significant element has been the importance of being able to connect with others. As someone who grew up in an…
Embracing the Change with Service Support
Mary Kinninmonth is a District Nurse Team Leader with NHS Fife. Her blog shows the positive impact of a supportive, integrated workforce when faced with the unexpected challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. There is no question that COVID-19 has had a huge impact on everyone’s lives and all within a relatively short space of time. The District…
Adaptability and the Delivery of Person-Centred Care
Gary Docherty is a Consultant Learning Disability Nurse working across Scotland. In his blog Gary discusses the necessity of adaptability within Learning Disability Nursing, especially during COVID-19, to ensure that staff are able to maintain a person-centred approach when delivering care. I am a Consultant Learning Disability Nurse working for an independent sector healthcare provider.…
