Jonathan Davies Associate Lead Nurse for Mental Health NHS Highland What difference do you hope to have on the health and wellbeing of those you care for? Mental recovery is only real and meaningful when it is solid and sustained at home, within one’s own community. Mental health hospitals are often foremost in most people’s minds when…
Nicki Corrigan
Nicki Corrigan Service Manager for Outreach Children’s Hospices Across Scotland What difference do you hope to have on the health and wellbeing of those you care for? CHAS support babies, children and young people whose time is precious. I hope to support my team to help these children to live as full a life as they can,…
Kirsty Cartin
Kirsty Cartin Care Home Manager Rashielee Care Home, Renfrewshire What difference do you hope to have on the health and wellbeing of those you care for? The social aspect of social care nursing is undervalued. It’s imperative as we live longer, that we recognise the value of living well for longer. I hope to lead care home nurses…
Lynda Bryceland
Lynda Bryceland Advanced Practice Respiratory Clinical Nurse Specialist NHS Ayrshire and Arran What inspired you to work in the community? The transition from specialist nursing in secondary care to community brought its own challenges but I have immersed myself in addressing these. The geography of Ayrshire can make accessible, specialist healthcare difficult. I am in…
Jaime McNab
Jaime McNab Lead Nurse – Care Homes and Care at Home NHS Highland What difference do you hope to have on the health and wellbeing of those you care for? In my role I hope to be able to positively influence the health and wellbeing for everyone in receipt of and working within Adult Social Care in the…
Elizabeth Briody
Elizabeth Briody Senior Nurse within Children’s Services NHS Lanarkshire What inspired me to work in the community? I consider myself as privileged to have spent the majority of my nursing career working within the community in different roles initially as a Staff Nurse, a Health Visitor and now as a Senior Nurse within Children’s Services…
Tania Ferguson
Tania Ferguson Health Visitor and Team Lead NHS Borders What skills and expertise are needed to be a Health Visitor and Team lead? It is important first and foremost to see things from the heart and not the eyes. It is vital to be kind and compassionate with children, their families and team members alike.…
Lorraine Daly
Lorraine Daly Associate Lead Nurse for Mental Health NHS Highland/ Argyll & Bute HSCP Previously Mental Health Nurse Team Leader, Complex Needs Service NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde/ Glasgow City HSCP In what way has the Queen’s Nurse programme made a difference to how you practice? I feel very privileged to be a Queen’s Nurse. The programme encouraged…
Laura Rothney
Laura Rothney Senior Nurse Practitioner Aberdeen City’s Integrated Drug & Alcohol Service – NHS Grampian What difference do you hope to have on the health and wellbeing of those you care for? I am committed to ensuring individuals have equitable access to health care support in relation to their drug dependence and all health and social care…
Laura McCann
Laura McCann Community Learning Disability Senior Charge Nurse Falkirk Learning Disability Team – NHS Forth Valley What difference do you hope to have on the health and wellbeing of those you care for? Learning Disability Nursing is one of the smallest branches of nursing there is, but by goodness what a fantastic field of nursing to be trained…
