Supporting and developing Scotland’s community nurses and midwives
QNIS is a charity that provides a range of high-quality professional development opportunities for Scotland’s community nurses and midwives, encouraging them to tackle health and care inequalities in collaboration with the people they care for.
Relational Care
Relational approaches to care help practitioners understand their own and others’ emotional experiences - patients, colleagues, managers, and organisations - in a clinically focused, accessible way.
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Community nursing and midwifery can be broadly described as any nursing or midwifery care provided outside of an acute hospital setting. This includes healthcare provided in a person’s own home, GP surgeries, community hospitals, the custody suites of police stations, schools, prisons, or care homes.
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Queen's Nurse Title
Queen’s Nursing in Scotland dates back to the late 19th century when our charity was first established. QNIS provided training for community nurses for many decades until the 1960s, when the NHS took over. But in 2017, we decided to reintroduce the Queen’s Nurse title to Scotland.
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Established in 1889 to train District Nurses in Scotland, our founders had a vision for promoting health, to enable those living in poverty to access care, to live well, and to die with dignity
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