Welcome to our blogs page where we share stories relating to health inequalities, community projects, sustainability, leadership and community nursing.
If you are keen to write a blog for us, on a relevant health or social care topic, we are always happy to hear from you. Feel free to download this helpful guide, and send your submission to comms@qnis.org.uk for consideration.
Post Pandemic – What Now for Relationship, Sexual Health and Parenthood Education?
Dr Colin Morrison is a partner in TASC (Scotland) and the lead developer of the national RSHP resource. He has a longstanding…
Mind the Gap
In April 2022, QNIS’ Healthier Pregnancies, Better Lives programme supported by The National Lottery Community Fund and Cattanach, conducted its…
They Spoke, We Listened
In looking internationally for answers 12 years ago, I realised policies and practices in reproductive health and pregnancy are not…
My Education Encouraged Self-Discovery
Michelle Dalgarno was nominated by Glasgow Caledonian University for excellence in her Postgraduate community nursing studies. We were delighted to…
Don’t presume women with chronic conditions don’t want babies
Dr Karin Hammarberg is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University…
Nothing About Us Without Us
Michele Stranger Hunter Preconception education, counselling and care – prior to a first or subsequent pregnancy – are the missing…
The Best Answers Come From Asking the Right Questions
Michele Stranger Hunter I came of age just as birth control made it possible to be sexually active without becoming…
Spotlighting a Blind Spot
In March 2022, the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland conducted an online survey about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD). This was…
What Invisibility Looks Like
In March 2022, the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland conducted an online survey about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD). This was…
Earth Day 2022: Appreciating nature is an investment in our planet
Back in 2018, I came up with the idea to transform the Action for Children garden in Stornoway as part…
