Pauline McIntyre is Deputy Director of Care at Erskine Home in Bishopton. She is one of 20 community nurses undertaking the Queen’s Nurse Development Programme during 2019 – the third year the programme has been running. She was also recently awarded the RCN Award of Merit. Here, Pauline shares her experience of working as a…
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Book Review – The Social Leadership Handbook by Julian Stodd
Ian Hall is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in the Orkney Islands, and a Queen’s Nurse. He has provided a review of the book which was the basis of Susie Boyle’s presentation at our Conference in April 2019. This is the introductory book that was offered by Susie Boyle during her talk at the Murrayfield conference…
Queen’s Nurses build connections through an appreciation of the outdoors
Queen’s Nurses Lorraine Haining and Kelvin Frew recently visited a garden opening under Scotland’s Garden Scheme. Here, Lorraine reflects on their day… Balker Farmhouse is on the Stair Estate near Stranraer in South West Scotland. The garden was originally a ploughed field which was restored in 2002 and the garden started in 2003-4 by Davina,…
I always knew I would be a nurse when I grew up
Lorna Bell won the QNIS Postgraduate Prize for QMU, and here she tells us her story. Excited! That is how I felt when I received the news that I had a place to train as a Specialist Practitioner District Nurse. Where I have lacked in academic confidence all of my life, I have made up for…
Inspire Improvement Fellowship 2019
Hello, my name is Nicki White, I am a Specialist Practitioner District Nurse / Practice teacher based in the North East of Edinburgh. It was an article in the Nursing Standard Vol 33 No 2/ May 2018 that first drew my attention to the Foundation of Nursing Studies (FoNS) programme Inspire Improvement Fellowship. The FoNS vision is to “inspire and enable a culture that…
Lessons on turning a vision into reality
QNIS Chief Executive and Nurse Director Clare Cable reflects on taking time out during the weekend to visit one of the sites open under Scotland’s Garden Scheme. Last week we were redesigning our small suburban garden. “Don’t be getting any ideas,” my other half warned as my eyes widened on entering The Garden of Cosmic…
Experiencing the Queen’s Nurse Programme
Queen’s Nurse Caroline Porter, Diana Children’s Nurse within CHAS has transformed her presentation to the QNIS Conference on her experience of becoming a Queen’s Nurse into a blog. To read more about Caroline, visit her Queen’s Nurse profile. You can follow the great work of CHAS through their twitter page. I hope to capture and…
Resilience Based Clinical Supervisions
This blog comes from Dr Gemma Stacey at the University of Nottingham and looks at an alternative model of clinical supervision. In my practice as a community mental health nurse and nurse educator, I was consistently reminded of the emotional implications of the nursing role. I provided and received clinical supervision regularly and was continuously struck by the frequent…
New recommendations about homelessness and health
Dr Hannah Carver is a Lecturer in Substance Use at University of Stirling. She has a particular focus on problem substance use, inequalities and harm reduction among vulnerable populations. Community-based nurses often care for people who are, or have been, homeless and facing a combination of truly difficult personal circumstances, financial insecurity and multiple health…
Post Graduate Journey from Acute to Community
Angela diMambro is the QNIS Prizewinner for PostGraduate studies at Robert Gordon University. She is pictured receiving the award from Jane Walker, Honorary Secretary for QNIS alongside Heather Bain, Academic Strategic Lead: Academic Programmes, School of Nursing and Midwifery at RGU, and QNIS Fellow. In this blog, she discusses moving to the community from acute,…
