Future Mental Health
The point of a conference is to make you think. To think about what you’ve heard, new ideas to implement,…
Reflections on the QNIS conference
What? I have now been qualified as a specialist practitioner district nurse for one year. It has been a steep…
Mental Health Awareness Week 2018 – Trustee Blog by Hilda Campbell
‘’This year for Mental Health Awareness Week, we’re focussing on stress. Research has shown that 16 million people experience a mental…
The journey to community nursing
Hear from the winner of the QNIS Postgraduate Community Nursing Prize, who picked up her award at the Queen Margaret University…
My Juno Anniversary – the Importance of Perinatal Mental Health Support
My first born Ethan – the boy who came along and healed many things in my life, stole my heart…
Buurtzorg – Neighbourhood Care
“It is an ethical imperative for neighbourhood nurses to make themselves irrelevant.” Jos de Blok In 2015 I met Jos…
QNIS Prizewinner’s blog – Emma Hay-Higgins
Receiving notification that I had won a Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland Postgraduate Award was a lovely surprise. It is a…
Summary Briefing: The Lobbying Act for a Third Sector Audience
The Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014, better known as the ‘Lobbying Act’, has been…
November’s Health Policy Officer’s Network
HPON or the Health Policy Officers Network is a peer support network of Health Policy Officers in small to medium…
Anticipatory Care – Blog on the QNIS Chair in Community Nursing’s Inaugural Lecture
On 23rd November, QNIS Chair of Community Nursing at Robert Gordon University, Professor Catriona Kennedy, gave her inaugural lecture on…