Welcome to our Blogs page where we share news articles and stories relating to healthcare, community nursing, mental health and social care.
We are pleased to announce that we are currently running a series of blogs by Learning Disability Nurses every fortnight on a Friday until December 2020.
In addition, we are engaging with our Scottish QN Health Visitors and our 2019 QN Cohort to arrange a similar schedule of blogs for each. Meantime please continue to enjoy our various blogs from QNs and other healthcare professionals which will now go live on Tuesdays.
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 submit your efforts to comms@qnis.org.uk.
Life on the Non-Frontline
Kirsten Kernaghan is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner based at NHS Lothian’s Chalmers Sexual Health Service. In her blog, Kirsten explores…
Sustaining the Commitment
Isla McGlade, Chief Nurse MHLD Services NHS Grampian, shares her passion for her career and celebrates the achievements in Learning…
Getting Back Your ‘Oomph!’
COPE Scotland have put together a self-help workbook aimed at mental wellbeing promotion, their CEO and QNIS Honorory Fellow Hilda…
Unearthed from Retirement to Help Volunteers
Dr Linda Pollock, QNIS Vice-Chair and former Community Nurse Director in NHS Lothian’s Primary Care Trust shares her story of…
A Future Frontline Service
Nikki Forsyth, Queen’s Nurse from NHS Grampian shares her views on why Health Visitors are essential keyworkers at this time…
NATURE TO NUTURE
Gabriela Maxwell is Nurse Consultant in Primary Care in NHS Lanarkshire, and a Queen’s Nurse. You can read her profile…
Florence Nightingale: a vision for nurses as social reformers
Clare Cable, Chief Executive and Nurse Director Florence Nightingale Clare Cable Today we are celebrating Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday. Florence…
Healthcare heroes? It is women who are the real heroes.
Today’s we celebrate International Day of the Midwife 2020 with a blog from a community midwife who shares her account…
Working on the front line but not on the front line
Queen’s Nurse, Jane Douglas shares her perspective on the role of nursing in care homes during the COVID pandemic. This…
Dancing the Mandalas of Critical Creativity in Nursing and Healthcare
Brendan McCormack, who has worked with us to co-design the Queen’s Nurse programme, shares a new resource on critical creativity…