Chloe Richardson

Learning Disability Community Charge Nurse

NHS Forth Valley

What difference has the programme made to how you practice?

I feel very lucky and privileged to be a part of the Queen’s Nurse journey. The programme has not only made me a confident practitioner, it has allowed me to also enable others to also become a confident practitioner in a field of nursing that I am so passionate about.

When I came to the first day at the Queen’s Nurse Development Programme I felt very hidden and shy and I left as part of a cohort who brought me out my ‘self’. The programme has allowed me to recognise things that I would never have before. Self care is a thing now and it will always play a huge role in my career, thank you to this programme.

Self care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what is left of you

Katie Reed