Dr Konstantina Martzoukou, Associate Professor at Robert Gordon University, shares with us her amazing work related to keeping children safe online and building on their understanding so they are empowered through the information in the resource. According to the World Health Organization (2024) “Children’s lives are increasingly blended between the digital and physical worlds, intertwining…
Our nurses. Our future: The economic power of care
Continuing their overarching theme ‘Our Nurses. Our Future’, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) has chosen to focus International Nurses Day 2024 on the economic power of care hoping to reshape perceptions and demonstrate how strategic investment in nursing can bring economic and societal benefits. This builds on the ICN Charter for Change report launched…
IND2024 – Celebrating Nursing
As part of our International Nurses Day celebrations, Queen’s Nurse Suzanne Turner has written about her experience of attending the Florence Nightingale Commemoration Service in London. Each year in May, on the birthday of Florence Nightingale – 12 May – we celebrate International Nurses Day. It provides us with an opportunity to recognise, acknowledge, and…
The Economic Power of Mental Health Nursing
Continuing their overarching theme ‘Our Nurses. Our Future’, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) has chosen to focus International Nurses Day 2024 on the economic power of care hoping to reshape perceptions and demonstrate how strategic investment in nursing can bring economic and societal benefits. This builds on the ICN Charter for Change report launched…
Annual Gathering and Holiday, Pitlochry April 2024
Earlier this year, the QNIS Annual Gathering and retired Queen’s Nurse holiday was held at Fisher’s Hotel in Pitlochry. Here our Stay in Touch Coordinators, Alison Jarvis and Carol Crowther, share their reflections of a joyous event: A change is as good as a holiday, the saying goes, and there is no doubt that, whether…
Our nurses. Our future: The economic power of care
Kathy Kenmuir, Professional Nurse Adviser for Primary Care, Scottish Government, has significant experience in primary care and a particular expertise in public health. She writes here as a QNIS Fellow, and her views are her own. We are working in an environment where clinical acumen has kudos, and we have created structures, resources and care…
Our nurses. Our future: The economic power of care
Continuing their overarching theme ‘Our Nurses. Our Future’, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) has chosen to focus International Nurses Day 2024 on the economic power of care hoping to reshape perceptions and demonstrate how strategic investment in nursing can bring economic and societal benefits. This builds on the ICN Charter for Change report launched…
Representing QNIS: a Queen’s Nurse reflects on her experience
Earlier this year, we asked Fiona Houlihan, Professional Nurse lead at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Queens Nurse, to represent QNIS at a roundtable in the Scottish Parliament hosted by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and sponsored by Jackie Baillie, MSP. The event brought together MSPs, paediatricians and third sector stakeholders…
Celebrating International Day of the Midwife
International Day of the Midwife is a day to celebrate the compassion, dedication and expertise of our wonderful midwives across the globe. In this blog we hear from Queen’s Nurse and Midwife, Claire Pearse about her work and the role midwives play in supporting sustainability. My name is Claire Pearse and I have been a…
Flourishing as a leader
This blog is based on a presentation given by Clare Cable, QNIS Chief Executive and Nurse Director, at the Leading Excellence in Care Event in Glasgow, March 2024. Looking at that title, given the challenges in the health and care system, an entirely reasonable response would be ‘Aye Right’ It’s tough just now and it’s…
