Hello, my name is Nicki White, I am a Specialist Practitioner District Nurse / Practice teacher based in the North East of Edinburgh. It was an article in the Nursing Standard Vol 33 No 2/ May 2018 that first drew my attention to the Foundation of Nursing Studies (FoNS) programme Inspire Improvement Fellowship. The FoNS vision is to “inspire and enable a culture that…
Lessons on turning a vision into reality
QNIS Chief Executive and Nurse Director Clare Cable reflects on taking time out during the weekend to visit one of the sites open under Scotland’s Garden Scheme. Last week we were redesigning our small suburban garden. “Don’t be getting any ideas,” my other half warned as my eyes widened on entering The Garden of Cosmic…
Experiencing the Queen’s Nurse Programme
Queen’s Nurse Caroline Porter, Diana Children’s Nurse within CHAS has transformed her presentation to the QNIS Conference on her experience of becoming a Queen’s Nurse into a blog. To read more about Caroline, visit her Queen’s Nurse profile. You can follow the great work of CHAS through their twitter page. I hope to capture and…
Resilience Based Clinical Supervisions
This blog comes from Dr Gemma Stacey at the University of Nottingham and looks at an alternative model of clinical supervision. In my practice as a community mental health nurse and nurse educator, I was consistently reminded of the emotional implications of the nursing role. I provided and received clinical supervision regularly and was continuously struck by the frequent…
New recommendations about homelessness and health
Dr Hannah Carver is a Lecturer in Substance Use at University of Stirling. She has a particular focus on problem substance use, inequalities and harm reduction among vulnerable populations. Community-based nurses often care for people who are, or have been, homeless and facing a combination of truly difficult personal circumstances, financial insecurity and multiple health…
Post Graduate Journey from Acute to Community
Angela diMambro is the QNIS Prizewinner for PostGraduate studies at Robert Gordon University. She is pictured receiving the award from Jane Walker, Honorary Secretary for QNIS alongside Heather Bain, Academic Strategic Lead: Academic Programmes, School of Nursing and Midwifery at RGU, and QNIS Fellow. In this blog, she discusses moving to the community from acute,…
Free toiletries for people in poverty
Isabel Dosser is a lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University on the Nursing Programmes. At QNIS, we like to think our conference themes and messages can have a positive effect on delegates, and in Isabel’s case, that is definitely true, as Isabel discusses the charity that began life as an idea from within our conference. Before…
A fair kick o’ the ba’ – #MHNursesday
21 Feb 2019 marks the first ever UK Mental Health Nurses day. The focus of the day is to gather together voices and experiences from across the UK to celebrate, describe and promote Mental Health Nursing. To mark this Mental Health Nurses Day, we asked a number of our friends, Fellows and Queen’s Nurses to write…
What it means to be a mental health nurse in 2019 – #MHNursesday
21st Feb 2019 marks the first ever UK Mental Health Nurses day. The focus of the day is to to gather together voices and experiences from across the UK to celebrate, describe and promote Mental Health Nursing. To mark this Mental Health Nurses Day, we asked a number of our friends, Fellows and Queen’s Nurses…
Reflection on 30 years as a Mental Health Nurse – #mhnursesday
21st Feb 2019 marks the first ever UK Mental Health Nurses day. The point of the day is to to gather together voices and experiences from across the UK to celebrate, describe and promote Mental Health Nursing. To mark this Mental Health Nurses Day, we asked a number of our friends, Fellows and Queen’s Nurses…
