Helen Gilpin is a Queen’s Nurse and Nurse Specialist for Looked After and Accommodated Children and Young People in NHS Highland. Learning about FASD has changed the way she approaches her initial consultations with children and young people and has allowed her to explore new treatment options for those she cares for. I knew from…
Let us ditch the myth that self-care is self-indulgent
Neglecting our own health and wellbeing serves no-one! For anyone reading this who is already practicing self-care on a regular basis, well done; please encourage your colleagues of the benefits. This post may not offer any new ideas, but it may help you remember to keep up the good work. For anyone not practicing self-care…
Lifelong Learning and a Passion for People
Lauren Kennedy is Lead Nurse for Mental Health and Learning Disabilities with NHS 24. In this blog, she shares her ambition to highlight and combat health inequalities through continued learning, her positive professional attitude, and a desire to share knowledge. Other people’s stories have always intrigued me. Coupled with my natural compassion I often found…
Pre-Pregnancy Health within Primary Care
Our society thinks and acts as if avoiding pregnancy or being pregnant are the only options. What gets overlooked are the benefits of preparing well for pregnancy,
Women, Alcohol, Pregnancy & FASD
In this sixth and final blog in the series presenting key elements from Professor Moira Plant’s forthcoming report we hear about the need for continued training of community nurses and midwives.
Women, Alcohol, Pregnancy & FASD
Stigma doesn’t just affect the judgement of people doing the stigmatising. It mainly affects the people who are, or think they will be, stigmatised.
Wait a minute. That’s not on me!
Michele Stranger Hunter’s latest blog looks at the need to go beyond individual change to changing ‘the system’.
Women, Alcohol, Pregnancy & FASD
While the last blog looked at the physical problems experienced by people with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, this blog explores some of the behavioural problems. People often notice the behavioural problems associated with FASD long before any consideration is given to the physical concerns or a diagnosis.
The Children’s Rights Revolution
Dr Elaine Allan, Lecturer Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen (FQNIS) previously shared her work related to a collaborative Children’s Rights Based Approach – The Imagineers Research Project. Now she invites YOU to take part in The Children’s Rights Revolution in her blog discussing The Year of Childhood. Results demonstrated that, in a supported environment, children and…
Women, Alcohol, Pregnancy & FASD
FASD is a lifelong condition. Despite the name of this neurodevelopmental condition beginning with the word ‘Fetal’, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders never disappear. Children and young people cannot ‘grow out of it’.
