Nicola Dow Care Home Nurse Royal Blind, Jenny’s Well Care Home I have always worked in care homes having originally joined as a part-time carer after school when I was a teenager. At university I firmly decided hospital wasn’t for me, I missed the sense of connection you get in a community setting. Some of…
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Jane Douglas
Jane Douglas Chief Executive Queen’s House (Kelso) I have been at Queen’s House in Kelso in the Scottish Borders for around three years and was appointed Chief Executive in April this year (2019). Queen’s House (Kelso) Ltd. is a registered charity and over the last two years we have grown to now have three homes…
Alison Bunce
Alison Bunce Senior Palliative Care Nurse Inverclyde Compassionate Inverclyde is a social movement which inspires ordinary people to do things for ordinary people by tapping into our desire to be kind, helpful and neighbourly. When it launched three years ago, there weren’t any volunteers and today there are more than 130 people involved. Inverclyde is situated on the banks of…
Lesley Wylie
Lesley Wylie Lesley Wylie is the manager of a dementia specialist home in Bishopton run by the charity Erskine, who have been caring for Scotland’s veterans since 1916. Proud of the relationship-centred culture within the Erskine Park Home, Lesley is motivated to promote care home nursing role as an innovative and developing area of practice.…
Kate McConville
Kate McConville Kate McConville is the Peripetetic Clinical Service Manager in Glasgow for Advinia Healthcare and takes a very hands-on approach. “I spend a lot of time watching how care is delivered and listening to how it is received,” she says. “It has to be the very best it can be, and I take a…
Living Well with Dementia: Enhancing Dignity & Quality of Life, Using A Novel Intervention, Dignity Therapy
Dignity Therapy is a brief intervention that enhances the lives of people at the end of life; this project aimed to determine its effectiveness with people with early dementia.
Food for Thought: enhancing dietary preferences for the person with advanced dementia
The aim of this project was to enhance the dignity of older people with advanced dementia using innovative methods to facilitate their food and drink choice.
Drink to Reduce INfection risK-up – A dignified approach to preventing urinary tract infection in older people resident in care homes
Urinary tract infection is the most common type of infection in care homes for older people; this project tested an intervention designed to increase the residents’ fluid intake, and evaluate its effectiveness.
Managing Catheters in the Community
This project sought to explore the experiences of patients, carers, community nurses and other health and social care staff in relation to issues with indwelling urinary catheters in the community setting that trigger unplanned district nurse visits.
Being Mindful of the Carers
This award-winning project aimed to pilot a Mindfulness based Cognitive Therapy programme to carers of people with dementia and assess its effectiveness.