Clare Cable, Chief Executive and Nurse Director Today we are celebrating Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday. Florence Nightingale was instrumental in founding the Queen’s Nursing Institutes across the UK. The Scottish Institute started life on April 1, 1889 with Miss Pauline Peter as the first superintendent, and only three nurses. In a letter to Miss Peter,…
Healthcare heroes? It is women who are the real heroes.
Today’s we celebrate International Day of the Midwife 2020 with a blog from a community midwife who shares her account of her role during the pandemic. Hilary Alba, Queen’s Nurse is senior charge midwife with the Special Needs in Pregnancy (SNIPS) team, in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. The message is everywhere….’support our NHS heroes…
Working on the front line but not on the front line
Queen’s Nurse, Jane Douglas shares her perspective on the role of nursing in care homes during the COVID pandemic. This year 2020 has been designated as International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, by the World Health Organisation. This year, the year of 2020, we find ourselves possibly challenged in a way that we have never been challenged before. …
Dancing the Mandalas of Critical Creativity in Nursing and Healthcare
Brendan McCormack, who has worked with us to co-design the Queen’s Nurse programme, shares a new resource on critical creativity and explains why deep reflection is even more important during the current pandemic. (Picture by Lesley Martin) At the time of writing this blog we are in the middle of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. …
Standing on the shoulders of giants
Neil McLennan is a historian and Director of Leadership Programmes, University of Aberdeen. He also sits on the Lay Committee of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. In just a matter of weeks, COVID-19 has changed our lives beyond recognition. ‘Self-isolation’ and ‘social distancing’ have become the words of the moment. Lying behind this…
Louisa Jordan and the Scottish Women’s Hospital
With the new temporary field hospital in Glasgow being named after Queen’s Nurse Louisa Jordan, we asked QNIS Fellow Alison O’Donnell to provide a little bit of history about the Scottish Women’s Hospital Service which took her to the frontline. Queen’s Nurse, Sister Louisa Jordan (1878- 1915) To prepare for the current pandemic crisis of…
‘You cannot pour from an empty cup’
In these uncertain and busy times, it can be all too easy to forget to look after yourself. Hilda Campbell, Chief Executive of COPE Scotland and QNIS Honorary Fellow has provided this helpful blog, in addition to our other resources, in order to help you look after yourself. Scotland’s community nurses are playing crucial roles…
EveryBodyCan – whats’s it all about?
We are proud to be supporting the British Lymphology Society’s 2020 Campaign – EveryBodyCan. The BLS provided us with this blog looking at ways in which nurses can support the campaign. We are delighted that the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland is supporting the British Lymphology Society 2020 Campaign EveryBodyCan. Lymphoedema, chronic oedema and lymphorrhoea (wet legs) are problems regularly encountered…
From volunteer to nurse
In December 2019, the first ever QNIS Academic Prize was awarded within the Open University. You can read about the ceremony here. The winner was Raphael Kombe Mwarandu, who works as a Practice Nurse in the General Practice in which he had volunteered, shortly after moving to Scotland. This is his story: My journey into…
What does a learning disability nurse do?
In a new series of blogs, learning disability nurses from across Scotland share their experiences. Our first comes from Queen’s Nurse Fiona Mason, who you can read more about, here. I was honoured to participate in the amazing Queen’s Nurse development programme, receiving my Queen’s Nurse Title in November 2019. The programme has helped me…
