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.
COPE Scotland launches new website with a focus on self-care and wellbeing
As COPE Scotland prepares to launch a new website, the organisation’s Chief Executive, Hilda Campbell, discusses the site’s focus on…
Celebrating the joy of reading for wellbeing
To coincide with the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the QNIS Wellbeing Book Group has written a poem expressing the joy…
Strengthening nurse-led community research
Research Fellows, Ben Bowers and Caroline Dickson, discuss the importance of research within nursing, and how to embed it in…
Community nursing in action
We spoke to Irene Scott, a community nurse from Fife, and part of this year’s cohort undertaking the Queen’s Nurse…
Award-winning nurse reflects on the importance of Learning Disability Nursing
Kerry Anderson is a Queen’s Nurse, and Nurse Consultant with NHS Grampian. Here she reflects on her career to date,…
Raising the profile of school nursing in Scotland
Dr Elaine Allan is a QNIS Fellow and a Lecturer on the Nursing MSc Advancing Practice degree at Robert Gordon…
Exploring Capacitar as a tool for healing
Debbie Wishart is a Queen’s Nurse and a Health Visitor in Dunblane. Here she outlines the benefits of Capacitar for physical…
‘Maddie is Online’: Co-creating with young people for safer and resilient online connectivity
Dr Konstantina Martzoukou, Associate Professor at Robert Gordon University, shares with us her amazing work related to keeping children safe…
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…
IND2024 – Celebrating Nursing
As part of our International Nurses Day celebrations, Queen’s Nurse Suzanne Turner has written about her experience of attending the…
