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The Role of Health Visiting in Accident Prevention

WEBPublic health is defined as “the art and science of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organised efforts of society” ( WHO, …

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Community Learning Disability Standards Launched

WEBIt is anticipated that the new standards, launched following Learning Disability Week 2021, will support Community Learning Disability Nurse (CLDN) education and practice across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The new standards comprise a set of benchmarks and guidance to inform current and future education and practice

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The Queen’s Nurse Development Programme

WEBIn partnership with Scotland’s Gardens, the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland will fully fund the development programme: the week long (Monday-Friday) residential workshop, the two other workshops, individual coaching (subject to confirmation) and all travel costs. We expect employers to fund the time for candidates to participate.

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Health visiting: what works

WEBThe orientation to practice underpinned delivery of the service through (three) four core practices. Together they describe a way of working that enables: universal access, …

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Queen’s Nurses

WEBJames Sweeney School Nurse Team Leader NHS Lanarkshire In what way has the Queen’s Nurse programme made a difference to how you practice? The Queens …

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Rethinking Safety in Healthcare

WEBEmma Legge, Head of Leadership Programmes at The Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland and a former community nurse, brings a unique perspective as she reflects on an insightful lecture and awards ceremony she attended.

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Health inequalities on display

WEBHealth inequalities on display. 6th October 2023. Earlier this year, QNIS commissioned Chance2Change, a community peer support group in Drumchapel, to …

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Community Nursing and the COVID-19 Pandemic

WEBThe public health and prevention roles of community nurses will remain central because there is the all-too-real risk of a second wave of COVID-19. This risk will be with us until an effective vaccine has been found and a vast majority of the population has been immunised. Meanwhile, among its many other coronavirus initiatives, the Scottish

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What is Community Nursing

WEBCommunity nursing can be broadly described as any nursing care provided outside of an acute hospital. This includes healthcare provided in the home, and also in other settings, for example within General Practice, a community hospital, the custody suite of a police station, a school or care home. There are at least 14,000 community nurses

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Scottish Health Survey highlights the impact of health inequalities

WEBThe findings of the Scottish Health Survey 2022 have recently been published and they show that area deprivation is a factor associated with worse health …

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Nurse Consultant

WEBNurse Consultant. Nurse Consultants are senior nurses, with considerable experience, autonomy and clinical expertise. They typically have a wide, strategic portfolio, including, but not limited to, elements such as the evaluation of healthcare delivery systems, professional leadership and the provision of training, while continuing to work

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Three pieces of advice for a community placement!

WEBRuth-Ann Welsh, Undergraduate prizewinner for Abertay University offers some words of wisdom. As a first year mental health nursing student I had very little …

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Complexity and Adversity in Primary Care Community Nursing

WEBDr Sarah Doyle (Deputy Nurse Director, QNIS) Dr Carey Lunan (Deep End GP & Chair, Craigmillar Medical Group) Scotland’s Deep End GPs have argued for a …

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Queen’s Nurse Resources

WEBWhat we do. Annual Reviews; Events; External Funding: Hardship, Education Grants and Scholarships; Long Service Awards; Safeguarding those at risk of financial abuse and …

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A Century of Nursing Registration

WEBA Century of Nursing Registration. 25th November 2019. Tonight (25th November) the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is holding an event to …

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Student Nurse in the Community: Holly Tidmarsh, QMU

WEBStudent Nurse in the Community: Holly Tidmarsh, QMU. After my four years at University I choose a community nursing placement as my final, management placement. …

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Ayrshire & Arran

WEBElaine Wilson. Elaine Wilson Senior General Practice Nurse Ayrshire Riverside Medical Practice is a semi-rural practice located across three sites in Patna, Coylton and Dalrymple – all within the NHS Ayrshire & Arran health board. I am employed as a General Practice Nurse (GPN) and the practice population is more than 4,000 patients.

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Florence Nightingale: a vision for nurses as social reformers

WEBFlorence Nightingale saw the Queen’s district nurses as having a key role in supporting a deeply disadvantaged population. In her view ‘the aim of the nurse must not only be to alleviate but to educate and she can only do this by becoming the friend and confidante of the people for whom she is working. She must never criticise, she must

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Transforming Nursing, Midwifery and Health Professions …

WEBDelivering excellence in care to every person, every time Paper 3 The district nursing role in integrated community nursing teams Annex 1. Examples of responsibilities and roles in …

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