COPE Scotland have put together a self-help workbook aimed at mental wellbeing promotion, their CEO and QNIS Honorory Fellow Hilda Campbell provides her tips on how best to use this. Download a copy: Getting Back Your ‘Oomph!’ Editable Workbook At COPE Scotland we understand that life can knock the stuffing out of us sometimes. We…
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Unearthed from Retirement to Help Volunteers
Dr Linda Pollock, QNIS Vice-Chair and former Community Nurse Director in NHS Lothian’s Primary Care Trust shares her story of coming back from retirement to lend her experience as a volunteer coordinator during the COVID-19 pandemic. Back in March, I returned early from an alpine ski holiday as France went into lockdown, literally overnight.…
A Future Frontline Service
Nikki Forsyth, Queen’s Nurse from NHS Grampian shares her views on why Health Visitors are essential keyworkers at this time of pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has required workers across services to be redeployed in order to meet staffing demands and ensure the continued provision of care to those in hospital and unwell during this time. …
NATURE TO NUTURE
Gabriela Maxwell is Nurse Consultant in Primary Care in NHS Lanarkshire, and a Queen’s Nurse. You can read her profile here These past few weeks have often been described as challenging and unprecedented because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Never in our lifetime has many experienced anything similar. In the future we might refer to this…
Florence Nightingale: a vision for nurses as social reformers
Clare Cable, Chief Executive and Nurse Director Today we are celebrating Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday. Florence Nightingale was instrumental in founding the Queen’s Nursing Institutes across the UK. The Scottish Institute started life on April 1, 1889 with Miss Pauline Peter as the first superintendent, and only three nurses. In a letter to Miss Peter,…
Healthcare heroes? It is women who are the real heroes.
Today’s we celebrate International Day of the Midwife 2020 with a blog from a community midwife who shares her account of her role during the pandemic. Hilary Alba, Queen’s Nurse is senior charge midwife with the Special Needs in Pregnancy (SNIPS) team, in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. The message is everywhere….’support our NHS heroes…
Working on the front line but not on the front line
Queen’s Nurse, Jane Douglas shares her perspective on the role of nursing in care homes during the COVID pandemic. This year 2020 has been designated as International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, by the World Health Organisation. This year, the year of 2020, we find ourselves possibly challenged in a way that we have never been challenged before. …
Dancing the Mandalas of Critical Creativity in Nursing and Healthcare
Brendan McCormack, who has worked with us to co-design the Queen’s Nurse programme, shares a new resource on critical creativity and explains why deep reflection is even more important during the current pandemic. (Picture by Lesley Martin) At the time of writing this blog we are in the middle of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. …
Standing on the shoulders of giants
Neil McLennan is a historian and Director of Leadership Programmes, University of Aberdeen. He also sits on the Lay Committee of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. In just a matter of weeks, COVID-19 has changed our lives beyond recognition. ‘Self-isolation’ and ‘social distancing’ have become the words of the moment. Lying behind this…
Louisa Jordan and the Scottish Women’s Hospital
With the new temporary field hospital in Glasgow being named after Queen’s Nurse Louisa Jordan, we asked QNIS Fellow Alison O’Donnell to provide a little bit of history about the Scottish Women’s Hospital Service which took her to the frontline. Queen’s Nurse, Sister Louisa Jordan (1878- 1915) To prepare for the current pandemic crisis of…
