Isabel Dosser is a lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University on the Nursing Programmes. At QNIS, we like to think our conference themes and messages can have a positive effect on delegates, and in Isabel’s case, that is definitely true, as Isabel discusses the charity that began life as an idea from within our conference. Before…
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A fair kick o’ the ba’ – #MHNursesday
21 Feb 2019 marks the first ever UK Mental Health Nurses day. The focus of the day is to gather together voices and experiences from across the UK to celebrate, describe and promote Mental Health Nursing. To mark this Mental Health Nurses Day, we asked a number of our friends, Fellows and Queen’s Nurses to write…
What it means to be a mental health nurse in 2019 – #MHNursesday
21st Feb 2019 marks the first ever UK Mental Health Nurses day. The focus of the day is to to gather together voices and experiences from across the UK to celebrate, describe and promote Mental Health Nursing. To mark this Mental Health Nurses Day, we asked a number of our friends, Fellows and Queen’s Nurses…
Reflection on 30 years as a Mental Health Nurse – #mhnursesday
21st Feb 2019 marks the first ever UK Mental Health Nurses day. The point of the day is to to gather together voices and experiences from across the UK to celebrate, describe and promote Mental Health Nursing. To mark this Mental Health Nurses Day, we asked a number of our friends, Fellows and Queen’s Nurses…
Recognising and responding to lipoedema
Dr Anne Williams is a Nurse Consultant in Lymphology and a Lecturer in Nursing at Queen Margaret University. She has a long relationship with QNIS. Anne writes here about a positive step forward in understanding, and dealing well with, a serious condition that too often is not taken seriously. I was delighted to be part…
Call for action on advanced dementia
Dr Debbie Tolson is the Alzheimer Scotland Professor of Dementia at the University of the West of Scotland. She is a long-time friend of QNIS and a member of The Fair Dementia Care Commission. In this blog, she highlights the Commission’s new recommendations; its call for action on advanced dementia; and, its implications for community…
How community nurses are on the frontline against financial scammers
This blog was first featured in the Big Issue on 11 December 2018. It was written by Clare Cable, our Chief Executive and Nurse Director looking at how community nurses can help in the fight against scamming. Being scammed can be the last straw for some. Cheating people out of money they can ill-afford to…
Safe Staffing in Scotland – what it means for community nurses
With MSPs debating proposed legislation to support safe staffing in Scotland, QNIS spoke to Eileen McKenna, Associate Director at RCN Scotland, to shed light on what this will mean for community nursing. What is the proposed legislation and how did it get to this stage? At the 2016 RCN Congress in Glasgow, the First Minister…
Student nurse journey- what I’ve learned and loved, what I’m scared about, and what I’m excited for
Undergraduate QNIS Prizewinner from University of Glasgow for 2018, Catherine White, tells us her story: Currently i’m a month into the 3rd year of my nursing degree at the University of Glasgow. It has gone by fast so far and to put it simply…it has been an experience! Being awarded the QNIS Academic Prize was…
Who do I feel safe to talk to?
Postgraduate QNIS Prizewinner from the University of Edinburgh, Temitayo Odewusi, pictured below (centre) with Aisha Holloway from University of Edinburgh (left) and Clare Cable, Chief Executive and Nurse Director of QNIS (right) has written this blog discussing her area of research – adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Nigeria and beyond. When I received the…
