Kerri-Ann Roberts Operational Lead, North Highland Vaccination Team NHS Highland What difference do you hope to have on the health and wellbeing of those you care for? I want to be a part of wider system change, working towards delivering equitable services to our remote and rural Highland communities who can often feel left behind and forgotten by…
Highland
Jonathan Davies
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…
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…
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…
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…
Maggie Wilkieson
Maggie Wilkieson Macmillan Nurse Campbeltown I live on the island of Gigha and travel by ferry to Campbeltown where I work as Community Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist, caring for people in their homes as well as in our local community hospital. My ‘patch’ is almost the whole of the narrow peninsula of Kintyre, plus the Island of Gigha, with a total population around 9,000 people. I am extremely lucky to live…
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…
Cathanna Smith
Cathanna Smith Cathanna Smith is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner working in the small harbour village of Tarbert in Argyll and Bute, where she feels privileged to be at the heart of the local community. My Journey I was born and raised in Stornoway in the Western Isles. When I was just three years old, I…
Julie Lennon
Julie Lennon Julie Lennon works as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) within the small village of Gairloch in the north west Highlands. A lifelong learner, she also works in nursing education and is known as an expert in her field of respiratory care. My Journey I started my training in 1976 straight from leaving school.…
Michelle Duffy
Michelle Duffy Michelle Duffy has one objective – to ensure that people living with disabling breathing problems in some of the most far-flung parts of North West Scotland can receive the same high quality evidence-based care as their counterparts in towns and cities. It may sound simple but Michelle, an Advanced Practice Respiratory Nurse with…
