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…
Highland
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…
Kitty Millar
Kitty Millar Campbeltown, situated at the southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula, may be only 60 miles from Glasgow as the crow flies, but it’s a world away in many other respects. It takes more than three hours to drive into the city, flying is expensive, and ferries to the mainland are few and far…
