Inga Mackay District Nurse NHS Orkney I had a placement in the community when I was a student nurse and I loved it. I enjoyed the different pace to the hospital and being able to spend time with my patients. My first post was as a community staff nurse, so I found my niche straight…
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Anne Maclean
Anne Maclean District Nurse Ardgour, NHS Highland Despite training in Edinburgh and working in acute neurology, when I moved home to the Highlands an opportunity to work in the community arose. My first instinct was that community nursing might be monotonous as I had perceived it to be all about tasks as a student. Yet…
Fiona Ralph
Fiona Ralph Locality Manager DN & RES, Renfrewshire HSCP Greater Glasgow and Clyde My job now is to make sure that the nurses in my team have the right support, access to education and training. I want the staff around me to feel supported in decision making and when approaching challenges to promote better health…
Annie MacDonald
Annie MacDonald District Nurse from the Isle of South Uist Western Isles Working in the community appealed to me because I wanted to be able to look after people in their own homes. I previously worked in intensive care and thought that I would benefit from a less acute environment where I could provide a…
Joanna Taylor
Joanna Taylor Advanced Nurse, Clinical Education Lochgilphead After working as a community staff nurse for 18 years, I undertook my District Nurse training in 2015. I recently changed posts and moved into clinical education. I’m now Advanced Nurse for Clinical Education and a liaison lecturer for UWS, a role which allows me to support and champion education for anyone working as…
Mary Kinninmonth
Mary Kinninmonth District Nurse Fife I am a District Nurse Team Leader with NHS Fife covering a large, mainly rural area, from Dalgety Bay to Kincardine. As well as the five district nursing teams in the locality, I also line manage the Dunfermline evening nursing service. I hold my own caseload of patients, while supporting charge nurses who manage their own caseloads. Geographically, it is a very…
Madeline Wilson
Madeline Wilson Madeline Wilson works as a Clinical Team Lead for District Nursing and is committed to ensuring that the people of Renfrewshire receive the highest quality and standard of community nursing care and treatment. My Journey As far as I can remember, I had always wanted to be a nurse. My parents used to…
Brigid McMaster
Brigid McMaster Brigid McMaster is Clinical Nurse Coordinator for Out of Hours District Nursing at the Ayrshire Urgent Care Service based at Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock and uses her wealth of experience to assess the need for change to services to meet the healthcare needs of people across Ayrshire. My Journey I came into nursing…
Julie Churchill
Julie Churchill Julie Churchill is at North Berwick Group Practice, visiting one of the community nursing teams that she works with. It’s the first time they have been together since it was announced that she is now their permanent Team Manager. For the previous year Julie had been acting team manager, and is therefore familiar…
Hazel Hamilton
Hazel Hamilton When she took up her post as Senior Charge Nurse for community nursing in Annandale and Eskdale, top of Hazel Hamilton’s to-do list was reorganising the service from a single-practice focus to larger area-based teams. Annandale and Eskdale is a large rural patch in South West Scotland with scattered farms, quiet villages and…