Clare Cable discusses “The Three Marriages” by David Whyte. We cannot be fully present to ourselves, our relationships and our work all the time. It is not humanly possible. …. well that’s a relief! I have just finished reading David Whyte’s book ‘The Three Marriages’ as I have been challenged over the last year about…
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Reinforced my drive to learn
QNIS Postgraduate Prizewinner from the University of Stirling Bethan Murdoch tells us about her experience as a health visitor. Receiving notification that I had won the QNIS Postgraduate Community Nursing Prize I have to be honest, and admit, I laughed, how on earth had that happened! I had not had an easy year to say…
Celebrating Innovative Quality Improvement
Students on the pre-registration Bachelor of Nursing programme in the School of Health and Social Care at Edinburgh Napier University have developed new and innovative quality improvement (QI) proposals to improve care as part of the “Effective Leadership for Healthcare (Theory 6)” final year module. The students are uniquely positioned to positively impact healthcare, being…
Passion for Community Nursing from QNIS Prizewinner
Caitlin Henderson, the QNIS Undergraduate Academic Prizewinner from QMU tells us about her passion for community nursing. Receiving the QNIS award for community nursing at undergraduate level in the Honours year of my nursing degree was a huge personal achievement. Throughout my nursing programme I focussed much of my work on the delivery of nursing…
Celebrating 70 years of nursing and midwifery in our NHS Scotland
A public exhibition and NHS Big Tea party took place at Edinburgh Napier University on Thursday 5th July 2018 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service. The free exhibit helped raise awareness of the history and evolution of nursing and midwifery education, research and practice. It also emphasised the important role nurses…
Postgraduate prizewinner shares enthusiasm for person-centred health visiting
Meghan Tuohy, a postgraduate student at Queen Margaret University (QMU), won the QNIS academic prize at a ceremony in May. Here she walks about what the prize means to her and her plans for the future. “To be given a QNIS prize for the work I did during my postgraduate community nursing course was a…
Images of the Past – The District Nurse: A Pictoral History
As we edge closer to our 130 year anniversary, we are revisiting our history. It is becoming increasingly obvious that it is difficult to distil such a huge amount of time into a shortened format. This is one of the key elements in praise of ‘Images of the Past – The District Nurse: a Pictoral…
Future Mental Health
The point of a conference is to make you think. To think about what you’ve heard, new ideas to implement, how to work with new connections, questioning how and why things are done. But yesterday, at the Voluntary Health Scotland (VHS) conference on Future Mental Health, I got all this and more, from a more…
Reflections on the QNIS conference
What? I have now been qualified as a specialist practitioner district nurse for one year. It has been a steep learning curve and I have been fortunate to work with brilliant colleagues who have supported me in this journey. While there have been many highlights, it has not always been easy and at times I…
Mental Health Awareness Week 2018 – Trustee Blog by Hilda Campbell
‘’This year for Mental Health Awareness Week, we’re focussing on stress. Research has shown that 16 million people experience a mental health problem each year, and stress is a key factor in this. By tackling stress, we can go a long way to tackle mental health problems such as anxiety and depression, and, in some instances,…
