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.
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…
Standing on the shoulders of giants
Neil McLennan is a historian and Director of Leadership Programmes, University of Aberdeen. He also sits on the Lay Committee…
Louisa Jordan and the Scottish Women’s Hospital
With the new temporary field hospital in Glasgow being named after Queen’s Nurse Louisa Jordan, we asked QNIS Fellow Alison…
‘You cannot pour from an empty cup’
In these uncertain and busy times, it can be all too easy to forget to look after yourself. Hilda Campbell,…
EveryBodyCan – whats’s it all about?
We are proud to be supporting the British Lymphology Society’s 2020 Campaign – EveryBodyCan. The BLS provided us with this…
From volunteer to nurse
In December 2019, the first ever QNIS Academic Prize was awarded within the Open University. You can read about the…