Rhona McLeman Health Visitor NHS Borders In what way has the Queen’s Nurse programme made a difference to how you practice? I came to the programme in the foothills of my leadership journey; lacking the confidence to step up and not seeing the potential others saw in me. Having been challenged, nourished, encouraged and enabled I now…
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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.…
Rachel Gardiner
Rachel Gardiner Forensic Community Learning Disability Charge Nurse NHS Borders When Rachel left school, she studied Applied Social Science at university and following a summer working in supported accommodation she started to rethink her future. “The government were in the process of closing learning disability hospitals and investing more heavily in supported accommodation for the…
Andrea Johnstone
Andrea Johnstone Senior Charge Nurse Borders Despite training in the Borders, I qualified in Newcastle and had my first post in an acute neurology setting there. After a year I moved back to the Borders where a community hospital post became available – I thought, let’s give it a shot and I loved it so…
Fiona Mason
Fiona Mason Learning Disability Nurse Scottish Borders I am a senior charge nurse within the Scottish Borders Learning Disability Service – a multidisciplinary team working across health and social care, made up of around 80 or 90 people working together in the community. My base is in Earlston in Berwickshire and the service covers a large, mainly rural, geographical area with the…
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…
Rachel Pulman
Rachel Pulman Rachel Pulman is a Child Protection and Looked After Children’s Nurse for NHS Borders who is known for her extensive knowledge and expertise in supporting the health needs of vulnerable children and young people. My Journey I have always wanted to be a nurse. My grandmother and my aunties were nurses and I…
Delia Howlett
Delia Howlett Delia Howlett has worked in the community since 1999, becoming a district Nurse in 2003. In 2016, Delia became team leader for Berwickshire and Cheviot which created a dual role of nurse management and district nursing. Based at Coldstream Health Centre, District Nurse Delia Howlett is team leader for the seven groups of…
