Dr Anne Williams is a Nurse Consultant in Lymphology and a Lecturer in Nursing at Queen Margaret University. She has a long relationship with QNIS. Anne writes here about a positive step forward in understanding, and dealing well with, a serious condition that too often is not taken seriously. I was delighted to be part…
Call for action on advanced dementia
Dr Debbie Tolson is the Alzheimer Scotland Professor of Dementia at the University of the West of Scotland. She is a long-time friend of QNIS and a member of The Fair Dementia Care Commission. In this blog, she highlights the Commission’s new recommendations; its call for action on advanced dementia; and, its implications for community…
How community nurses are on the frontline against financial scammers
This blog was first featured in the Big Issue on 11 December 2018. It was written by Clare Cable, our Chief Executive and Nurse Director looking at how community nurses can help in the fight against scamming. Being scammed can be the last straw for some. Cheating people out of money they can ill-afford to…
Safe Staffing in Scotland – what it means for community nurses
With MSPs debating proposed legislation to support safe staffing in Scotland, QNIS spoke to Eileen McKenna, Associate Director at RCN Scotland, to shed light on what this will mean for community nursing. What is the proposed legislation and how did it get to this stage? At the 2016 RCN Congress in Glasgow, the First Minister…
Student nurse journey- what I’ve learned and loved, what I’m scared about, and what I’m excited for
Undergraduate QNIS Prizewinner from University of Glasgow for 2018, Catherine White, tells us her story: Currently i’m a month into the 3rd year of my nursing degree at the University of Glasgow. It has gone by fast so far and to put it simply…it has been an experience! Being awarded the QNIS Academic Prize was…
Who do I feel safe to talk to?
Postgraduate QNIS Prizewinner from the University of Edinburgh, Temitayo Odewusi, pictured below (centre) with Aisha Holloway from University of Edinburgh (left) and Clare Cable, Chief Executive and Nurse Director of QNIS (right) has written this blog discussing her area of research – adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Nigeria and beyond. When I received the…
Prioritising Stillness
Clare Cable discusses “The Three Marriages” by David Whyte. We cannot be fully present to ourselves, our relationships and our work all the time. It is not humanly possible. …. well that’s a relief! I have just finished reading David Whyte’s book ‘The Three Marriages’ as I have been challenged over the last year about…
Reinforced my drive to learn
QNIS Postgraduate Prizewinner from the University of Stirling Bethan Murdoch tells us about her experience as a health visitor. Receiving notification that I had won the QNIS Postgraduate Community Nursing Prize I have to be honest, and admit, I laughed, how on earth had that happened! I had not had an easy year to say…
Celebrating Innovative Quality Improvement
Students on the pre-registration Bachelor of Nursing programme in the School of Health and Social Care at Edinburgh Napier University have developed new and innovative quality improvement (QI) proposals to improve care as part of the “Effective Leadership for Healthcare (Theory 6)” final year module. The students are uniquely positioned to positively impact healthcare, being…
Passion for Community Nursing from QNIS Prizewinner
Caitlin Henderson, the QNIS Undergraduate Academic Prizewinner from QMU tells us about her passion for community nursing. Receiving the QNIS award for community nursing at undergraduate level in the Honours year of my nursing degree was a huge personal achievement. Throughout my nursing programme I focussed much of my work on the delivery of nursing…
