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…
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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…
Craig Bell
Craig Bell Community Learning Disability Charge Nurse NHS Forth Valley Craig first heard about the Queen’s Nurse programme through his manager a few years earlier, but it was the shared development project of the learning disability cohort that encouraged him to apply. “Our group project is about forensic need, a topic that’s relevant to what…
Debbie Wishart
Debbie Wishart Health Visitor NHS Forth Valley Based at the recently built Doune Health Centre, my post with NHS Forth Valley covers rural Stirlingshire. It’s an affluent, often remote community. There are a few villages but it’s mainly farms, with roughly 200 families. Visits often involve tricky journeys along remote, winding roads. I sometimes travel to these visits thinking the road has ended – but there will be a farm…
Gabriela Maxwell
Gabriela Maxwell Advanced Nurse Practitioner Falkirk The Graeme Medical Centre in Falkirk serves around 5,300 patients including those with very complex needs and multiple chronic conditions as well as a mixed ethnic population with varying language skills. There are four GPs and two ANPs as well as a team of practice nurses, district nurses and health visitors. Teamwork is essential to…
Margaret-Ann Williamson
Margaret-Ann Williamson In her role as Health Visitor Team Lead for NHS Forth Valley covering Clackmannanshire, Margaret-Ann Williamson has been responsible for supporting staff through a period of change with the introduction of the Universal Health Visiting Pathway over the last few years. My Journey When I was in sixth year at school, deciding the…
Joan Gracie
Joan Gracie The welfare of children has always been close to Joan Gracie’s heart, and as Team Leader for School Nursing in NHS Forth Valley, she feels she is making a real difference. “There are so many young people in need of help,” she says. “Here we are determined to see they get it, hopefully…
