Clare Cable discusses resilience, waning energy levels and the importance of taking time to reconnect with yourself by introducing the Capacitar Leadership Dance which is demonstrated by Scotland’s Queen’s Nurses in our latest YouTube video. Since the beginning of the year, we have been leading through uncertainty and many of us are exhausted. We have perhaps…
Let Compassion and Kindness Rule the Way
Julie Fitzpatrick is a Professional Nurse Advisor in Learning Disability Services with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, in her blog she reflects on the weight of her role as a nurse leader. During the pandemic, the pressure to make the right choices could easily have been overwhelming but Julie describes how important it was to…
IMAGINING the School Nursing Service
Dr Elaine Allan, Lead School Nurse and Robert Gordon University Lecturer shares her blog encouraging the adoption of a rights-based approach in children’s services. Her blog references the Imagineers Project developed in Aberdeen which highlights the benefits of listening to children and young people. Dr Allan notes the special relevance of this approach during COVID-19…
COVID: The Importance of Vitamin D
Dr Helga Rhein (GP) discusses the health benefits of sufficient vitamin D levels in the blood, including the possibility of lowering the impact of COVID-19. Data from recent studies and patient responses are offered here to spark discussion on the wider use of higher levels of vitamin D. Before retiring, Helga worked closely with community nurse,…
Life on the Non-Frontline
Kirsten Kernaghan is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner based at NHS Lothian’s Chalmers Sexual Health Service. In her blog, Kirsten explores the feelings of confusion, frustration and even envy brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. With support from her QN coach learn how Kirsten made sense of her importance as a nurse working on the Non-Frontline.…
Sustaining the Commitment
Isla McGlade, Chief Nurse MHLD Services NHS Grampian, shares her passion for her career and celebrates the achievements in Learning Disability Nursing following the 2019 centenary. What a commitment! As Learning Disability Nursing reaches its centenary, our reach and influence continue to grow. We are integrated into the fabric of health and social care…
Getting Back Your ‘Oomph!’
COPE Scotland have put together a self-help workbook aimed at mental wellbeing promotion, their CEO and QNIS Honorory Fellow Hilda Campbell provides her tips on how best to use this. Download a copy: Getting Back Your ‘Oomph!’ Editable Workbook At COPE Scotland we understand that life can knock the stuffing out of us sometimes. We…
Unearthed from Retirement to Help Volunteers
Dr Linda Pollock, QNIS Vice-Chair and former Community Nurse Director in NHS Lothian’s Primary Care Trust shares her story of coming back from retirement to lend her experience as a volunteer coordinator during the COVID-19 pandemic. Back in March, I returned early from an alpine ski holiday as France went into lockdown, literally overnight.…
A Future Frontline Service
Nikki Forsyth, Queen’s Nurse from NHS Grampian shares her views on why Health Visitors are essential keyworkers at this time of pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has required workers across services to be redeployed in order to meet staffing demands and ensure the continued provision of care to those in hospital and unwell during this time. …
NATURE TO NUTURE
Gabriela Maxwell is Nurse Consultant in Primary Care in NHS Lanarkshire, and a Queen’s Nurse. You can read her profile here These past few weeks have often been described as challenging and unprecedented because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Never in our lifetime has many experienced anything similar. In the future we might refer to this…
