Nicola Dow Care Home Nurse Royal Blind, Jenny’s Well Care Home I have always worked in care homes having originally joined as a part-time carer after school when I was a teenager. At university I firmly decided hospital wasn’t for me, I missed the sense of connection you get in a community setting. Some of…
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Sally Walton
Sally Walton Senior Charge Nurse (Community Children’s Nurse Team) NHS Dumfries and Galloway I originally worked in a hospital but moved into the community as a Health Visitor. I have always felt that you get to know families a little better at home and in a different way. Being in a home environment lets you…
Oonagh McPherson
Oonagh McPherson Community Mental Health Nurse (Children and Adolescents) NHS Tayside I work with children and young people with mental health problems. The overall difference I want to make is for them to feel happy and healthy – enabling belonging, and purpose in their own way. I want to ensure that the children and young people…
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Lisa Benson
Lisa Benson Prison Nurse Team Lead in Substance Misuse HMP Grampian, Aberdeenshire I was originally drawn to emergency nursing because it’s fast paced with lots of variety and lots of learning opportunities. After my nurse training, I travelled abroad and worked in a medical surgical unit. Once I had my children, I worked in a…
Kelly Frame
Kelly Frame Community Learning Disability Nurse NHS Lanarkshire I like that working in the community you get to support people throughout their journey. In a hospital setting, you might only see and treat the immediate health concern but in community nursing, you are involved in the ongoing journey with a person. Seeing someone in their…
Keara Farrell
Keara Farrell Charge Nurse Thornhill Community Hospital, Dumfries and Galloway From an early age, I looked after my grandparents when their health got worse and then my neighbour asked me to help look after her father. My first summer job as a teenager was looking after an older person in their home. My friends couldn’t…
Karen Drummond
Karen Drummond Community Charge Nurse – Perinatal Mental Health Service NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde I have worked in the Perinatal Mental Health Service for seven years now. Initially as a staff nurse in the mother and baby unit and now as a psychiatric nurse in the community team. Working in the community enables me…
James Hill
James Hill Advanced Nurse Practitioner within Addiction Services NHS Ayrshire and Arran My inspiration came from supporting and caring for my sister. My mum was the main carer, but I took her to see doctors, specialists and to her hospital appointments. Research says that people recover better at home. In a more relaxed environment, they…
Inger McGowan
Inger McGowan Community Justice Nurse The Willow Centre, NHS Lothian Community nursing was a journey to where my clients were, I don’t even think it was a choice. I’ve been in Scotland for seventeen years now, but I was born and raised in the Netherlands. As early as age eleven I knew I wanted to…
