The Queen's Nursing Institute Scotland

Promoting excellence in community nursing across Scotland

Impact

The Queen’s Nurse Development Programme has been running since 2017 and we have worked hard to capture the impact of the programme. 

Community Nurses as Changemakers

An Impact Report funded by The Health Foundation

This report commissioned by The Health Foundation sets out the impact of the transformational Queen’s Nurse Development Programme. The report describes the journey of the programme for community nurses and midwives and the difference they make in their communities as a result.


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As well as the report we have brought together a short film ‘Scotland’s Queen’s Nurses: Compassionate Disruptors’ which brings the report to life in the voices of three Scottish Queen’s Nurses. You can watch the ten-minute film in full below:

 

International Journal of Practice Development

There is a paper in the International Journal of Practice Developmen (click here to access) co-authored by the 2019 cohort of Queen’s Nurses.

Robert Gordon University Evaluation

A team from Robert Gordon University undertook a robust evaluation of the programme (click here to access) published in 2021. Drawing on the experience of the 2017 and 2018 cohorts, the research team found evidence of participants feeling stagnated and burned out at work prior to embarking on the programme. Practical challenges, stress and fatigue were also reported as commonplace.

Catriona Kennedy, Professor of Community Nursing at Robert Gordon University and lead researcher, said:

Globally, healthcare is facing complex challenges. For us at RGU, conducting this research was crucial to understanding the scope of the impact that programmes such as the QNDP can have on nurses working with our communities.

As we work collaboratively towards ensuring post-pandemic recovery, our findings support the QNDP as an approach to equip health professionals with leadership and resilience skills.

Queen’s Nurse Development Programme – Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Programme

Scotland faces significant health disparities, with a notable gap in life expectancy and healthy life expectancy between the most and least deprived areas. Risk factors such as smoking, poor diet, and physical inactivity contribute significantly to cardiovascular health issues Nurses, midwives, and health visitors play a critical role in mitigating these risks by engaging communities in health-promoting activities.

In 2023 The Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland (QNIS) launched a transformative project to address cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention within communities in Scotland.

Funded by the Burdett Trust for Nursing, this programme focused on empowering nurses with co-production skills to foster health improvements to reduce CVD risks, particularly targeting health inequalities exacerbated by socioeconomic factors. This report presents
and evaluation of that programme.

Click below to view a short film from the cohort that worked on the project.

Click here to access a transcript of the film

The programme aimed to support four nurses on a journey to co-produce health initiatives focused on CVD prevention. The primary objectives were to enable nurses to co-create health-enhancing initiatives with community members, foster partnerships between professionals, voluntary groups, and community members, achieve measurable health improvements within twelve months, develop four evidence-based neighbourhood initiatives addressing CVD risk factors, and empower the nurses to drive community health changes sustainably.

Click here to read the final Evaluation Report (written by Professor Andy Jones, and published in July 2024)

Knowing, Being and Becoming a Person-Centred Nurse Leader: Findings from a Transformative Professional Development Programme

Leadership is central to the development of effective workplace cultures and as such should be viewed as a practice that is relational, exercised through a process of mutual and reciprocal influence.

Person-centred leadership is an approach to leadership that supports a way of being that is authentic, prioritising values lived out in action. However, there is an increasing recognition that leadership development has not been impactful in relation to workplace culture.

This paper reports on the ongoing evaluation of an innovative development programme (Queen’s Nurse Development Programme), the overall aim of which was to illuminate the participants’ experiences of engaging in transformative learning and development and identify the technical and transformative outcomes arising.

Authors: Clare Cable, QNIS; Tanya McCance, Ulster University, and Brendan McCormack, University of Sydney.

 

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